<span>The reason that the Great Wall of China was built was to protect Northern China from nomadic invaders. These nomadic invaders came from a variety of different places.</span>
In the 1760's Great Britain started imposing taxes on the colonies to pay off the French and Indian War. Colonists who didn't want to pay the taxes would smuggle goods in.
The Middle Passage was pretty much torture to enslaved Africans. They where crammed into the smallest part of the ship shackled together. Many got sick from diseases that then spread to everyone else. Some Africans even took their own lives to seek freedom and peace from the voyage