Age of exploration brought about discoveries and advances. It is also called the age of discovery and it began in the fifteenth century and lasted till seventeenth century.
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During the early fifteenth century, the Europeans began to explore the world by discovering new sea routes for the purpose of trade relations. Explorers discovered the areas such as Africa and America and brought back that knowledge to Europe. Massive wealth were accrued due to the trading of spices and metals to the Asian continent.
New foods, plants and animals were exchanged between the colonies and Europe. Indigenous people were decimated by Europeans. The age of exploration stood as a major stepping stone of geographic knowledge. These explorations also introduced a whole new world of flora and fauna to Europeans. Age of discovery bound the Europeans together for their massive knowledge of geography which they have gathered out of exploration.
It is certainly not for altruistic purposes. Although he does have a point about the fact that energetic independence would boost American security by avoiding trade with brutal, dictatorial regimes as Islamic Saudi Arabia, Iran or other totalitarian regimes which provides them with funds; Pickens is mainly interested in furthering his own interests with regards to his own economic stakes in the fracking industry of shale gas and oil.
He also wants demand of oil and other fossile fuels to be reduced so thattheir prices go up, increasing his profit margins exponentially. He definitely does not care about the deleterious effects of fracking on the environment.
Labor unions opposed the small wages that the labor workers experienced and the long working hours.
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an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members. The sinking of the Maine incited United States' passions against Spain, eventually leading to a naval blockade of Cuba and a declaration of war.
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Blacks ( African Americans)
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Voting rights were denied to ‘Coloureds’ in the same way that they were denied to Blacks but in 1977 this was changed. The idea was that the ‘Coloured’ minority could be granted voting rights, but the Black majority were to become citizens of independent homelands. These separate arrangements continued until the abolition of apartheid.
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