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AP 23.654 How did Napoleon influence the way you eat?
How different would life be without this invention? Nowadays, canned food is everywhere — but how did this industry begin? Tune in to learn how Nicholas Appert discovered the principles used in canning food — and why we have Napoleon to thank for this Stuff of Genius.
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AP 23.653 Napoleon – Have any money? Buy a hat.
Posted November 16, 2014Napoleon’s hat sells for $2.4 million at auction
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AP 23.624 USA – Founding Father: Benjamin Franklin
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
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AP 23.623 USA – Founding Father: George Washington
“My brave fellows, you have done all I asked you to do, and more than can be reasonably expected; but your country is at stake, your wives, your houses and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty, and to your country, which you probably can never do under any other circumstances.”
“We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.”
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AP 23.620 USA – Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration
Once the movement for Independence was set in motion, England came to reassert its control on the North American colonies. There was no turning back…. it was too late to apologize.
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AP 23.619 USA – So What Was 1776?
Was it one or more of the following?
A Revolt?
A Secession? An American Revolution? An American Independence?Continue reading Post ID 27781
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AP 23.615 What is a Revolution?
rev·o·lu·tion (noun)
– a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.Continue reading Post ID 27781
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AP 23.611 Slavery – Who banned slavery when? (Abolition)
(Reuters) MARCH 2007 – Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since it enacted a law banning the trans-Atlantic slave trade, although full abolition of slavery did not follow for another generation.
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AP 23.608 Slavery – Before Abolition in North America
a·bol·ish (verb)
formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).
example – “the tax was abolished in 1977”ab·o·li·tion – the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
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AP 23.607 Illustrative Examples – Women’s Rights and Abolition
Sojourner Truth is best known for her improvised speech on racial inequalities, “Ain’t I a Woman?” delivered at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851.
Illustrative Examples (p 99) – Demands
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AP 23.593 Enlightenment Thinker – Adam Smith and What is Laissez faire?
Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ”The Father of Economics” or ”The Father of Capitalism”.
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AP 23.511 Responses to Coerced Labor – St. Martin de Porres
St. Martín de Porres (1579 – 639), was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. Martín de Porres was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a black servant. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony.
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AP 23.506 Labor System – Heimler (Labor, Slavery, and Caste in Spanish America)
IMPORTANT – although this video belongs to AP US History (APUSH) it overlaps with AP WORLD History for 4.4. Continue reading Post ID 27781
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AP 23.498 Pirate – Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping.
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AP 23.435 Spanish – Power (Spanish Tercios)
Dominant Infantry Force of Early Modern Europe
The Tercio (“third”) or Tercio Español was a Spanish military unit of the Spanish Empire during the era of the dominance of Habsburg Spain in Europe and the Renaissance era.
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AP 23.422 1492 – The End of the Reconquista!
1492
The Reconquista (“reconquest”) is a historical period of approximately 770 years in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, beginning after the initial stage of the Islamic conquest (711-718), to the fall of Granada, the last Islamic state on the peninsula, in 1492.
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AP 23.420 Baile Española (Flamenco and Pasodobles)
Flamenco is an art form native to the Spanish regions of Andalusia, Extremadura ,and Murcia. It includes cante (singing), toque (guitar playing), baile (dance), jaleo (vocalizations), palmas (handclapping) and pitos (finger snapping).
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AP 23.355 Renaissance – What was it?
The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age. Europe saw a great revival of interest in the classical learning and values of ancient Greece and Rome.
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AP 23.354 Renaissance – Humanism and the Catholic Church
Humanism is applied to the overreaching social and intellectual philosophies of the Renaissance era, in which the beauty of the individual was elevated to preeminence. To put it in simpler terms, humanism is the belief that man has beauty, worth, and dignity. Therefore, life here on Earth should be cherished rather than simply endured.
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