From fur trading, farming, mines, and ranch life, each of these were very important and had a major influence on our economic and political history. As for the question; “How do the experiences of specific groups of people, as reflected in the primary sources, support or modify Turner’s view of western settlement?” I believe the following three primary sources support Turner’s view of the West; Robert Baird, George Caleb Bingham, and Miriam Davis Colt. Sports Celebrity Shine Movies Music TV Health Shopping Travel Autos Homes Popular on Yahoo Yahoo Homepage My Yahoo Yahoo News Yahoo Sports Yahoo Finance OMG Shine More Yahoo Sites Yahoo Mail Yahoo Mail <style>#yucs
China saw itself as defending the Middle Kingdom against outside barbarians. Dehli/Agra/Fatehpur Sikri Reasons for significance: Agra is a magnificent city both for its size and it antiquity. All the necessities and conveniences of human life can be obtained in this city. There were a great number of artisans, iron workers and goldsmiths. Economic status: Agra is a vital center, with wonderful monuments, which include the Taj Mahal.
By In the Indus River Valley, the largest cities of the area were located directly next to the Indus River (Martin). As many traders also when outside the Indus Valley for more opportunities of trade and revenue, they went southward down the Indus River to the Arabian Sea and traded along the cost. When traders went outside their homeland, much culture was spread – such as, the spreading religion, technology, foods, art, and
SEPTEMBER 25 2013 SEPTEMBER 25 2013 FARAZ MUNIR FARAZ MUNIR City State During the renaissance Italy had three of the most influential cities, but Florence was clearly the most influential. Firstly, Florence was a really wealthy and powerful city, meaning it had a great economic system that supported many jobs such as backers and different kinds of merchants. Florence was so rich that it had enough money to buy all the surrounding cities from their rulers, and this allowed them to expand power and gain more control of the region. Florence was a great place for merchant, because it was built on the Arno River. The Arno River had been a trade route for centuries, merchants and traders had prospered in Florence since before the Roman Empire.
According to Turner, the frontier had been the most important factor in shaping America and its character. He believed that you could only understand America by understanding the western frontier and how it changed the newly organized nation. A major notion within his claims of the American frontier is, “ the existence of an are of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development ” (Turner, 33). Turner saw the advancement in the western frontier in a more hopeful and joyful light, contrary to that of Patricia Limerick’s
As the leading method in the transporting of people and products, railroads were indispensable to American industry. Where railroads went, towns and cities soon followed, all reliant on the railways for deliveries of food and goods. The production of the railroads produced massive new industries in coal, iron, and steel. No other business of the time so radically motivated the industrialization process as the railroads
One of the main reasons for Ottawa's decision to acquire the Prairie Provinces was to create "a region of frontier settlement capable of rapid development and capable in turn of stimulating developments in other parts of the dominion” (MacPherson 6). The American influx originated from the country's Midwest and Great Plains states like Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, where unsettled farming land, formerly plentiful, was becoming very rare. The settlers rapidly increased wheat production in the west, and helped grow the Canadian economy through investments based off natural resource wealth. They were arguably even more influential, however, in their political ideology (MacPherson 7). Immigrants brought with them the classic liberal American ideas such as individualism, devotion to the free market and an aversion to large, centralized powers (“Imprint” 1).
Some important rulers were Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan. Other rulers included Ogedei, Guyuk, and Mongke Khan. These rulers expanded their kingdom into northern India, central Asia, China, Persia and some parts of Europe. One good thing that came out of this vast empire is that many people could trade more safely on the Silk Road since it was now in one big empire. A bad thing is that the Mongols killed many people and devastated towns as they conquered new lands.
Nineteenth-century developments in machinery, transportation, and communications put the Western world in motion. Ports were bustling with people and brimming with raw materials and finished products destined for distant markets. Finding ways to ship goods faster and cheaper was essential to continued commercial expansion. Water transport offered many advantages over rail, including inter-oceanic access. In addition to their commercial importance, canals had nationalistic and military significance.
Stereotypes come to play, Western Europe takes root, India becomes India, China becomes China, etc. all coming into their own. This era deals with Classical Civilizations and the trade that commenced between them. As we go along this essay, Leona Land, located right on the Meggyterranean Sea, had many beautiful features and had a rich civilization. It’s religion, trade, political power, security, and setting gave off many important scientific, philosophical, and political innovations and ideas, often considered to be the root of western civilization.