Examples of Cape of Good Hope in the following topics:
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- In 1456 Diogo Gomes reached the Cape Verde archipelago.
- The next crucial breakthrough was in 1488, when Bartolomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa, which he named the "Cape of Storms. " He continued to sail east as far as the mouth of the Great Fish River, proving that the Indian Ocean was accessible from the Atlantic.
- Soon the cape was renamed by King John II of Portugal the "Cape of Good Hope" because of the great optimism engendered by the possibility of a sea route to India, proving false the view that had existed since Ptolemy that the Indian Ocean was land-locked.
- Relations with the Kongo were initially good: Congolese kings embraced Catholicism and welcomed Portuguese missionaries and merchants.
- Portugal intervened in a local war hoping to get abundant mineral riches, imposing a protectorate.
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- The next European to visit Namibia was also a Portuguese, Bartholomeu Dias, who stopped there on his way to round the Cape of Good Hope.
- In 1793, the Dutch authority in the Cape decided to take control of Walvis Bay, since it was the only good deep-water harbor along the Skeleton Coast.
- When the United Kingdom took control of the Cape Colony in 1797, they also took over Walvis Bay.
- The first territorial claim on a part of Namibia came when Britain occupied Walvis Bay, confirming the settlement of 1797, and permitted the Cape Colony to annex it in 1878.
- The annexation was an attempt to forestall German ambitions in the area, and it also guaranteed control of the good deep water harbor on the way to the Cape Colony and other British colonies on Africa's east coast.
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- If our parents belong to the upper class, we have a good chance of graduating high school and entering higher education.
- The more education we have, the more active we will be in political life, the more traditional and conservative our religious affiliation, the more likely we will marry into a family with both economic and social capital, and the more likely we will eat better food, will be less exposed to unhygienic conditions, and be able to pay for good health care.
- This chart shows the proportion of total income that goes to the richest 1% of Americans.
- The water situation in Cape Verde, an island country in the central Atlantic, is a poignant illustration of global social inequality.
- Most of the population in Cape Verde collects water at public water channels.
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- Cape Verde is a debtor nation with a total external debt of $360 million at the end of 2002.
- Besides being in debt to countries of the North, (the U.S. and Europe) Cape Verde is part of the global economy in other ways.
- The wealthy and well-educated are much more likely to be in good health, and have access to good medical care than the poor.
- For many, the high cost of insurance prevents Americans from having good medical care.
- And, as previously mentioned, their children have a good chance of attending the same elite college.
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- In 1627, France invested in New France, promising land parcels to hundreds of new settlers with the hope of turning the area into an important mercantile and farming colony.
- The economic development of New France was marked by the emergence of successive economies based on staple commodities, each of which dictated the political and cultural settings of the time.
- Furs would soon become the staple goods that would strengthen and drive New France's economy, in particular that of Montreal, for the next century.
- The treaty resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) as the successor to Acadia.
- France ceded the rest of New France, except the islands of St.
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- In 1492, the joint rulers conquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada, which had been providing Castile with African goods through tribute, and decided to fund Christopher Columbus's expedition in the hope of bypassing Portugal's monopoly on west African sea routes, to reach "the Indies" (east and south Asia) by travelling west.
- The object of the third voyage was to verify the existence of a continent that King John II of Portugal claimed was located to the southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
- In the treaty, the Portuguese received everything outside Europe east of a line that ran 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (already Portuguese), and the islands reached by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Spain; Cuba and Hispaniola).
- The Manilla Galleons shipped goods from all over Asia across the Pacific to Acapulco on the coast of Mexico.
- From there, the goods were transshipped across Mexico to the Spanish treasure fleets, for shipment to Spain.
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- King Leopold II, for example, who was King of Belgium from 1865-1909, forced hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children to work as slaves in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- The governments of poor countries invite these TNCs to invest in their country with the hope of developing the country and bringing material benefit to the people.
- However, workers' time and energy are often poured into producing goods that they themselves will not consume.
- For example, some of the land in Cape Verde could be planted and harvested to feed local people, but it is planted instead with cash crops for foreign exchange.
- By the end of the 19th century, most of the Americas were under the control of European colonial empires.
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- It consisted of
six cabinet members (the secretaries of agriculture, commerce, interior, labor, navy, and war)
and an unpaid civilian advisory committee,
whose task was to investigate and advise the president and heads of executive departments on the strategic placement of industrial goods and services for the potential and future use in times of war.
- On May 20, 1941
the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) was created to co-ordinate state and federal measures for protection of civilians in case of war emergency.
- In large part, this effort was successful, sometimes almost to a fault, such as the Plains states where many dedicated aircraft spotters took up their posts night after night watching the skies in an area of the country that no enemy aircraft of that time could possibly hope to reach.
- In May 1942, a CAP crew were flying a coastal patrol mission off Cape Canaveral when they spotted a German U-boat.
- To become a cadet, one had to be between the ages of 15 and 17, and be sponsored by a CAP member of the same gender.
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- The Battle of Leyte Gulf is generally considered the largest naval battle of World War II and possibly the largest naval battle in history.
- In particular, US strategists hoped to deprive Japanese forces and industry of vital oil supplies.
- The majority of its surviving heavy ships, deprived of fuel, remained in their bases for the rest of the Pacific War.
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf consisted of four separate major engagements between the opposing forces: the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, the Battle of Surigao Strait, the Battle of Cape Engaño, and the Battle of Samar; there were also other lesser actions.
- Identify the notable facts and the four major engagements of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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- According to the Sagas of Icelanders, Leif was the son of Erik the Red, who was the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
- Larger portions of western Europe had become familiar with the goods of the East as a result of the Crusades.
- As strong supporters of the Catholic church, they sought to bring Christianity to the East and any newly found lands, and hoped to find sources of wealth.
- On his third voyage, Columbus landed on the Portuguese Porto Santo Island before continuing on to Madeira; the Canary Islands and Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa; Trinidad, off the coast of present-day Venezuela; and mainland South America.
- Columbus had been granted authority by the Spanish monarchy to claim land for Spain, begin a settlement, trade for valuable goods or gold, and explore.