• Instead, it was much more practical and cost-efficient to just raid the immense gold and silver brought back by the Spanish from their colonies in Latin America . (worldatlas.com)
  • The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination and to the independent development of their nations. (ncsu.edu)
  • Spanish troops conquered vast parts of Central and South America which are now called Latin America. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Latin America and Africa present themselves as two regions possessing ample resources-much of which remain untapped-but little muscle. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Even judging by how these regions are being treated today, it is evident that this is the dreadful future awaiting Latin America and Africa. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Rich in resources, Latin America is a sumptuous smorgasbord for resource-hungry outsiders. (thetrumpet.com)
  • and on and on-Latin America can provide raw materials in abundance. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Germany, since the closing days of its defeat in the Second World War, has viewed Latin America as a land of opportunity. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The strongest tie between these two entities lies in religion: Though Roman Catholicism is headquartered in Rome and remains the predominant faith of Europe, over half of the world's Roman Catholics live in Latin America. (thetrumpet.com)
  • By the late 1940s, German influence in Latin America was unmistakable, with its military camped out in Argentina, its industrial strength flourishing in Brazil, and Nazi leaders enjoying respected status within Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay and Ecuador. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Since then, German businesses, with Vatican support, have opened the door for Europe to penetrate key industrial, agricultural and corporate industries in Latin America. (thetrumpet.com)
  • This German penetration of Latin America has been operating under an EU cloak. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Between 1990 and 2004, EU trade with Latin America more than doubled, vaulting the EU into position as the leading foreign investor in the region. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Surely, Europe must have felt for some time that it had Latin America all but sewn up for itself. (thetrumpet.com)
  • And if the idea of Atlantic community is to have full meaning, it must include the nations of Latin America. (ucsb.edu)
  • They can see its dimensions in the fact that Latin America is the fastest growing continent in the world. (ucsb.edu)
  • These problems--the hard reality of life in much of Latin America--will not be solved simply by complaining about Castro, by blaming all problems on communism, or generals, or nationalism. (ucsb.edu)
  • It is the people of Latin America who must undergo the agonizing process of reshaping institutions, not the people of the United States. (ucsb.edu)
  • Greg H. asks: Diseases from Europe wiped out most of the Indians, so why didn't the Europeans also get wiped out by diseases from America? (todayifoundout.com)
  • So why didn't 19 out of 20 Europeans die from Native American diseases? (todayifoundout.com)
  • Second, Europeans lived in more densely populated areas than Native Americans. (todayifoundout.com)
  • All of these things resulted in Europeans being regularly exposed to many more pathogens than Native Americans were. (todayifoundout.com)
  • The Europeans' immune systems simply developed to ward off the worst of some of the nastier diseases that incapacitated entire Native American populations. (todayifoundout.com)
  • In the colonial era, through the Revolutionary War, the foundation of America was oratorically clarified as an act of prudence-that is, God led people, specifically the white Europeans, to America to find a new and superior or incomparable societal order that would be the light unto all realms.2 In fact, many settlers also believed in creating a new nation filled with history and stories. (ipl.org)
  • When the Europeans first came to American, they discovered that the Native Americans had extensive knowledge of the herbs which grew on their continent. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • Instead of reaching India as he had expected he landed on an island off a continent unknown to Europeans. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Doesn't requirement 5a expect the Scout to appreciate how helpful the Native American people were to the newly arrived Europeans? (boyscouttrail.com)
  • I believe you read it as if it was problematic for the Europeans to encounter the Native Americans. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • It's believed that one Native American disease did slip on to the European ships and sailed onward to Europe doing some major damage in the process. (todayifoundout.com)
  • This settlement suffered greatly in its infancy and would have surely been destroyed if not for the assistance of friendly Native American tribes. (worldatlas.com)
  • Native American culture, at its roots, is centered on tightly knit communities that work together for the good of the community. (potawatomi.org)
  • Those same principles are being revitalized by Native American Tribes across the country. (potawatomi.org)
  • This state of mind powered western settlement, Native American evacuation and war with Mexico. (ipl.org)
  • In the Caribbean, some Native American nations use masks to bring people into contact with the spirit world. (liquidimageco.com)
  • In North America, masks are primarily used in Native American rituals and powwows. (liquidimageco.com)
  • There was a strong Native American influence in the early beginnings of Southern food when slaves began arriving: crops like corn and techniques like frying. (deepsouthmag.com)
  • So ingredients like this that are now part of Americana and the Native American influence really started shaping Southern food very early on. (deepsouthmag.com)
  • After eleven different orthopedic specialists failed to relieve her pain, she took the recommendation of a Native American friend and sought help from a Cherokee shaman - a traditional healer - who was able to lessen her suffering. (thesunmagazine.org)
  • This dual path has helped her become a mediator between Native American and Euro-American worldviews. (thesunmagazine.org)
  • Being in touch with nature, she explains, is an essential part of what it means to "walk in beauty," a Native American expression for being in harmony with oneself and all the living things of the earth. (thesunmagazine.org)
  • This badge is suppose to be about Native American heritage. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • It should be more appropriately like 'First Nation or Native American history badge. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • Conclusions and Relevance: In this nationwide study of patients treated by EMS for acute traumatic injuries, patients from racial or ethnic minority groups were less likely to have a pain score recorded, with Native American and Alaskan Natives the least likely to have a pain score recorded. (bvsalud.org)
  • One popular LDS theory places the setting for the Book of Mormon in the vicinity of Mexico and Central America surrounding the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. (wikipedia.org)
  • Within a few decades, Spanish explorers became familiar with the northern coast of South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic shore of North America, the Isthmus of Panama, the Gulf of Mexico and conclusively- the general outlines of the New World. (essayworld.com)
  • 1. The study of the record of the rocks on every continent except the sub-continents of Australia and Antarctica. (ldolphin.org)
  • Squirrels live on every continent except in Australia and Antarctica, according to the BBC. (whitewolfpack.com)
  • In 1938 a church study guide for the Book of Mormon stated that "the Book of Mormon deals only with the history and expansion of three small colonies which came to America, and it does not deny or disprove the possibility of other immigrations, which probably would be unknown to its writers. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1783 independence from Britain was gained by 13 North American colonies. (teachershelp.ru)
  • The health and wellness of American Indians and Alaska Natives has steadily improved since the dark days of the mid-twentieth century, when population levels reached an all-time low and termination of sovereign status threatened tribal existence (1). (cdc.gov)
  • During the past 50 years, the federal governments extension of basic rights, such as the free exercise of religion, and activism, court victories, and deployment of tools for economic development by American Indians and Alaska Natives have ushered in a period of growth and resurgence. (cdc.gov)
  • As sovereign peoples, however, American Indians and Alaska Natives have not escaped broader societal trends in health and disease, such as the epidemics of alcohol and tobacco use, the obesity epidemic that emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s and was followed by increases in rates of type 2 diabetes, and the challenges of opioid and other substance misuse that have plagued the country in the 20th and 21st centuries. (cdc.gov)
  • British colonial efforts were not just relegated to what is today mainland America. (worldatlas.com)
  • But Dr. Gunther has lately shown that the Galaxias attenuatus inhabits Tasmania, New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, and the mainland of South America. (infidels.org)
  • glacier: Antarctic Ice Sheet: The bedrock of the continent of Antarctica is almost completely buried under ice. (britannica.com)
  • It forms an 800-mile (1,300-km) northward extension of Antarctica toward the southern tip of South America. (britannica.com)
  • Antarctica: Birds: but only three-the emperor penguin, Antarctic petrel, and South Polar (McCormick's) skua-breed exclusively on the continent or on nearby islands. (britannica.com)
  • Some historians believe that the ancestors of the tribes making up the Abenaki confederacy first arrived in North America about three thousand years ago. (encyclopedia.com)
  • When slavery was abolished in the North the southern states left the Union and formed the Confederacy. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Peter Farb ( 25 July 1925 - 8 April 1980 ) was an American author , anthropologist , linguist , ecologist , naturalist and spokesman for conservation, and free lance writer for 30 years in the areas of the natural and human sciences. (wikiquote.org)
  • It occupies the southern part of North America and stretches from the Atlantic seaboard, across the central plains, over the Rocky Mountains to the densely populated West Coast and then to the island state of Hawaii. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Boston is one of the first cities which were built on the Atlantic coast of America. (teachershelp.ru)
  • As early as 800 BC one Indian writer knew 500 medicinal plants and another knew 760 all indigenous plants of India. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • The natives in Central and South America also had extensive knowledge of the herbs indigenous to their areas. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • For example, the indigenous peoples of North America, often referred to as Native Americans or American Indians, were the original inhabitants of the continent before European colonization. (digitalblackboard.io)
  • For example, the indigenous music and dance of the Maori people of New Zealand, or the indigenous weaving techniques of the Navajo people of North America. (digitalblackboard.io)
  • He passed through the Great Lakes, mentioning as he goes various Indian tribes and some of the products of the country, stopped some little time at the great town of the Winnebagoes, at Lake Winnebago, in Wisconsin, where he was very civilly received. (heritage-history.com)
  • It was formerly believed that the same fresh-water species never existed on two continents distant from each other. (infidels.org)
  • In regard to fish, I believe that the same species never occur in the fresh waters of distant continents. (literature.org)
  • While the Native Americans were away from their New England territory, white settlers took over the land. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Amy Greenberg's book, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, provides documented evidence that settlers believed they were destined for expansion throughout the continent. (ipl.org)
  • The European settlers had great respect for the herbal wisdom of the American Indians and relied heavily upon their knowledge. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • The Indians showed the white settlers how to fish and plant crops. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Indian conflicts, especially in the relatively fertile Utah Valley south of Salt Lake City, began soon after settlers arrived and continued throughout the Civil War and into the post-war years. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Write or briefly describe how life might have been different for the European settlers if there had been no native Americans to meet them when they came to this continent. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • Even as nineteenth-century Americans were cutting forests, damming rivers, and paving roads, leading thinkers were sanctifying nature. (bostonreview.net)
  • Manifest Destiny is a term for the mentality common amid the nineteenth century time of American development that the United States could, as well as was bound to, extend across the nation. (ipl.org)
  • Groups of people and animals moved around a lot in Europe and had interactions particularly through war and trade, resulting in the spread of disease across continents-and, eventually, some level of immunity for the survivors. (todayifoundout.com)
  • There were several diffrent way people used the word Manifest Destiny like the way John L. O'sullivan used it was he believed that " majority of Americans at the time believed was their mission from God: to expand to west and bring the United States government to unenlightened people. (ipl.org)
  • Thinking that he was in India, Columbus called the people he met there Indians. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Gold and silver were discovered on the Pacific coast and thousands of people rushed there across the continent. (teachershelp.ru)
  • High on my list of favourites were the Indians of North America, a people for whom I had an unusual degree of admiration and sympathy. (picturegoing.com)
  • Name five well-known American Indian leaders, either from the past or people of today. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • Across the lifespan, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people have higher rates of chronic disease, injury, and premature death than some racial/ethnic groups in the United States (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • This cult of the natural has deep roots in America. (bostonreview.net)
  • The roots of Indian medicine were set forth in the sacred writings called the Vedas , which date back as far as the 2nd century BC. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • Spain, France and England began sending out conquistadors and explorers to the uncharted terrains of the new continent. (essayworld.com)
  • Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento - Value of an Estancia - Cattle, how counted - Singular Breed of Oxen - Perforated Pebbles - Shepherd Dogs - Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding - Character of Inhabitants - Rio Plata - Flocks of Butterflies - Aeronaut Spiders - Phosphorescence of the Sea - Port Desire - Guanaco - Port St. Julian - Geology of Patagonia - Fossil gigantic Animal - Types of Organization constant - Change in the Zoology of America - Causes of Extinction. (infidels.org)
  • Rajan Sharma (seen here with his wife Aarti): "Vegas offers an experience like no other place and is totally different from India in many ways, hence it greatly intrigues Indians. (littleindia.com)
  • State officials highlighted that US, is the most desirable destination for Indians, with Las Vegas coming in third behind New York and San Francisco as the preferred destination, drawing 6.5 percent of the India market. (littleindia.com)
  • Indian herbalism or Ayurveda is still practiced today, and many authentic, traditional formulations are available outside of India. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • Ancient Greece was greatly influenced by Babylonia (or Mesopotamia), Egypt, and somewhat by India and China. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • Used in religious rituals in the Amazon region of South America (see Yellow Book chapter, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley ), this beverage has been marketed to travelers as a cultural experience (e.g., ethnotourism) and treatment for depression. (cdc.gov)
  • The number of Indian tourists grew more than 75 percent between 2009 to 2014 to 962,000, according to US Department of Commerce's National Travel and Tourism Office data. (littleindia.com)
  • Give the history of one American Indian tribe, group, or nation that lives or has lived near you. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • Make an authentic model of a dwelling used by an Indian tribe, group, or nation. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • The English first tried their hand at permanent settlement in 1587 at Roanoke in what is today North Carolina . (worldatlas.com)
  • Besides this important end, a settlement on that extremity of America would answer many good purposes, and repay every expense the establishment of it might occasion. (heritage-history.com)
  • Little did the men on the rafts know that they were embarking on an eight-year adventure that would ultimately take their few survivors across the entire continent. (americanheritage.com)
  • The peculiar pouch-shape of almost all the harbours named (Matanzas being a marked exception) greatly increases their security and defensibility. (wikisource.org)
  • In contrast, infection with CagA-positive strains greatly increases the risk of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. (medscape.com)
  • In 1927, Janne M. Sjödahl stated that "students of the Book of Mormon should be cautioned against the error of supposing that all the American Indians are the descendants of Lehi, Mulek and their companions. (wikipedia.org)
  • As slaves, Cabeza de Vaca and his companions were forced to cope with native North America on its own terms, bridging two worlds that had remained apart for 12,000 years or more. (americanheritage.com)
  • In the mind of the aborigines he created the passion for the fruits, both good and evil, of the white man's civilization, and he was welcomed by the Indian because he also brought the means for repelling the further advance of that civilization. (fulltextarchive.com)
  • The Westerns, which featured rather prominently in the repertory of those days, invariably had the Indians getting the worst of it in their encounters with the white man, a headlong rout of the redskins being the usual outcome. (picturegoing.com)
  • The romantic and thrilling story of the southward and westward migration of successive waves of transplanted European peoples throughout the entire course of the eighteenth century is the history of the growth and evolution of American democracy. (fulltextarchive.com)
  • Of late, with anti-Americanism quickly spreading among their peoples, Latin American nations have grown even more receptive to other foreign trade proposals. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The Spanish and Portuguese had already colonized much of South and Central America by the middle of the 1500s. (worldatlas.com)
  • In South and Central America, masks are often worn during religious festivals, parades and ceremonies. (liquidimageco.com)
  • The USA borders on Canada in the north and on Mexico in the south. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Gradually they moved southwards and settled all over North and South America. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Civil war between the North and South broke out. (teachershelp.ru)
  • I intended to proceed to Colonia del Sacramiento, situated on the northern bank of the Plata and opposite to Buenos Ayres, and thence, following up the Uruguay, to the village of Mercedes on the Rio Negro (one of the many rivers of this name in South America), and from this point to return direct to Monte Video. (infidels.org)
  • At war's end, many Nazis found safety in South America. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The use of cocaine can be traced back to the South American Andean Indians, approximately 5000 years ago, who chew on the leaves of the Erythroxylon Coca plant for social, medical and religious reasons. (bvsalud.org)
  • Beaver pelts were soon one of the most valuable items in North America and were a key component in the popular garments in European fashion. (worldatlas.com)
  • The story of his enterprise and of his adventures begins with the planting of European civilization upon American soil. (fulltextarchive.com)
  • The French founded settlements in the north. (teachershelp.ru)
  • With the natural suspicion that Englishmen of his time felt of the French, he believed that they, while they retained their power in North America, had taken every artful method to keep all other nations, particularly the English, ignorant of everything concerning the interior parts of the country. (heritage-history.com)
  • Whether this arises from an awareness of a relationship to envy and leveling, or, in the minds of Americans, the association of equality with the Declaration of Independence and egalitarianism with the violence of the French Revolution, is difficult to establish. (independent.org)
  • Readers will find accounts of an 1861 attempt to court-martial a Virginia-born commander for treason, battle reports from the January 1863 Bear River Massacre, documents from the army's high command authorizing Governor James Doty to enlist additional Utah troops in October 1864, and evidence of Colonel Patrick Edward Connor's personal biases against Native Americans and Mormons. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Native Americans, on the other hand, were largely hunters and gatherers, and even in some domestication cases, it's thought exposure was limited. (todayifoundout.com)
  • Their picturesque appearance as well as their skill and bravery as hunters and warriors greatly impressed me. (picturegoing.com)
  • In the far north, where humans must face the constant threat of starvation, where life is reduced to the bare essentials-it turns out that one of these essentials is art. (wikiquote.org)
  • This North American setting has gained support from some notable members of the LDS community. (wikipedia.org)
  • But it was an extremely American- and Euro-centric vision, taking insufficient account of what was going on beyond the West. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The program also sought to reinforce efforts in Indian Country to advance policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) improvements to make healthy choices easier for all community members. (cdc.gov)
  • The healing tradition of the Native Americans, like that of many early cultures, was based on a belief in an unseen spirit world. (naturalhealthschool.com)
  • The United States of America is the fourth largest country in the world after Russia, Canada and China. (teachershelp.ru)
  • Almost a century and a half ago Alexis de Tocqueville predicted that the belief in the principle of equality, which he saw as the most fundamental and significant feature of American life, eventually would spread throughout the world. (independent.org)
  • Las Vegas with its somewhat wasted reputation, where gambling rules and semi-nude girls are as common a sight as cows on Indian roads, is hardly the ideal fit for the family oriented and prudish Indian traveller. (littleindia.com)
  • As for the latter, these traditional Indian Cultures had many Gods, one of them being called Mama Coca. (bvsalud.org)
  • The task we have set ourselves and the Alliance for Progress, the development of an entire continent, is a far greater task than any we have ever undertaken in our history. (ucsb.edu)
  • Manifest Destiny is a unique, yet mysterious fundamental series of events in American history. (ipl.org)
  • Indeed, Cabeza de Vaca and the other leaders of the ill-fated venture had agreed to a desperate gamble: to trade their most effective weapons against the Indians-horses and firearms-for five makeshift vessels that might or might not be capable of carrying them to safety. (americanheritage.com)
  • Certainly, the US has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of Native Americans/American Indians. (boyscouttrail.com)
  • In 1620 the first English party left England for America. (teachershelp.ru)
  • To test penicillin's effectiveness in treating syphilis and other STDs, researchers led by Dr. John Charles Cutler from the United States (funded by the Public Health Services, the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health) headed to Guatemala in 1946 and found prostitutes who had syphilis, getting them to then give it to unsuspecting Guatemalan soldiers, mental health patients, and prisoners. (todayifoundout.com)
  • Grey squirrels, commonly found in North America, are medium-size squirrels. (whitewolfpack.com)
  • Historically, it was un natural food-canned, packaged, refrigerated, enriched, railroaded, trucked, and industrially farmed-that fed more Americans at vastly lower costs and was essential in securing modern standards of living. (bostonreview.net)
  • By the middle of the twentieth century, most LDS authors shared the belief that the Book of Mormon events took place within a limited region in Mesoamerica, and that others were present on the continent at the time of Lehi's arrival. (wikipedia.org)
  • But as the seat of Empire, from time immemorial, has been gradually progressive toward the west, there is no doubt but that at some future period, mighty kingdoms will emerge from these wildernesses, and stately palaces and solemn temples, with gilded spires reaching the skies, supplant the Indians' huts, whose only decorations are the barbarous trophies of their vanquished enemies. (heritage-history.com)
  • Interventions, first in public health and later in personal care, greatly extended human life. (bostonreview.net)
  • Art seems to belong to the basic pattern of life of the Eskimo , and of the neighboring Athapaskan and Algonkian Indian bands as well. (wikiquote.org)
  • For Native Americans, it is a disease that can greatly impact the quality of life, regardless of age. (potawatomi.org)
  • Since there are so many types of squirrels, they range greatly in size. (whitewolfpack.com)