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 * ~ Year ||~  ||~ Which area? Size? (be specific) ||~   ||~ Name & how was the territory gained. ||~   ||~ Peaceful or Non-Peaceful ||
 * 1853 ||  || Small strip of land in southern Arizona ||   || Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from Mexico for $10 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1803 ||  || Stretches from the Canadian border to the gulf of mexico in the middle of America ||   || Louisiana Purchase: Purchased from France for $15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1867 ||  || Northwest of Canada ||   || Alaska: Purchased from America for $7.2 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1845 ||  || Borders north Mexico, southern USA ||   || Texas Annexation: The Americans fought the Mexicans for Texas ||   || Non-Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || Southeast of America. Next to the gulf of Mexico ||   || Florida: Spain and US signed Adam-onis. The USA paid $5 million, and they fought the natives in the area ||   || Non-Peaceful & Peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || Northwest of America. Next to the Pacific Ocean ||   || Oregon Country: The Americans and British both agreed to divide the territory ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1896 ||  || Islands in the Pacific Ocean, Northwest of USA ||   || Hawaii: The British, French and Americans had interest in Hawaii. The American sugar plantation owners dominated Hawaii. These wealthy people wanted Hawaii to belong to the USA. In 898, a new leader, William McKinley, came to office and agreed to annex the islands ||   || Peaceful ||



__Part 1 of Project: __
 * Assignment #9: **

1. Afonso de Albequerque after sailing from Portuguese Goa conquers the Sultanate of Malacca with a force of 1,200 and seventeen or eighteen ships. 2. First dutch expedition to Indonesia sets sail for the East Indies with two hundred and forty-nine men and sixty-four cannons led by Cornelis de Houtman. 3. First permanent Dutch trading post is established in Banten, West Java. 4. With the decline of the spice trade, textiles are now the most important trade item in the Dutch East Indies. 5. Republic of Indonesia gains independence from the Dutch.
 * when and where (provide dates and location/geographical information) - Indonesia's amazing spices first brought Portuguese merchants to the key trading port of Malacca in 1511.
 * who the people involved were (who are they, where did they came from, what did they want) - Portuguese wanted to get spices, and then the Dutch came to control. After the 19th century, they wanted to conquer it.
 * what happened when these people interacted (was there violence? co-operation?) - Was conquereed until the 20th century until the Indonesians wanted to set free.
 * what were the major events:
 * why and how did major events happen: why and how already explained above.^

__Summary__: The Portuguese first came to find spices in Indonesia. They arrived to the key trading port of Malacca in 1511. Prized for their flavor, spices were believed to cure everything from plague to diseases and were literally worth their weight in gold. The Dutch followed and wrestled control of the spice trade from Portuguese and the Dutch East India Company established a spice monopoly which lasted well into the 18th century. The first Dutch expeditions started, they came in search for spices i.e. nutmeg, mace spice, cloves and cinnamon. During the 19th century, the Dutch began sugar and coffee cultivation on Java, which was soon providing three-fourths of the world supply of coffee. They came back later again to look for cash crops like tea, cocoa, tobbaco, rubber, sugar and opium. By the 20th century, the locals began developing the concept of Indonesia as a nation state and set the stage for an independence movement. A four year war led by the nationalists (locals) against the Dutch on Java after World War II, along with successful helped bring out independence. The Republic of Indonesia, officially proclaimed on August 17th, 1945, gained independence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies http://www.indo.com/indonesia/history.html

January 10, 2013 The government removed a number of Natives in the 19th century. An example of this is when the native Americans were forced to move to a designated location away from the western and northern states. This is called forced migration. The most famous removals were the ones in 1830 that occurred from the American Southeast, starting with the Choctaw people. There was a great dislocation between all the people and numerous deaths occurred. It was also known as the "Trail of Tears" for the Cherokee nation.
 * __Assignment #8 __**

Cultural assimilaton is when the natives are forced to convert their culture to the new culture of the colonists. There was an effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European-American culture between the years of 1790-1920.

The definition of Cultural Genocide is when a culture is brought to an end or is destroyed, i.e. 1890 (the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee by the US military, the natives declined, mostly from disease.

Manifest Destiny is the belief Americans followed. They believed that the US would grow through the North American continent. An example of this occured in the 1840s when the US had a war with Mexico to expand slavery in Texas.


 * = **Who** ||= **Date** ||< **Diary Entry** ||
 * = Kunte Kinte ||= May 1763 ||< The sun is starting to set now, getting ready for the night, and another monotonous day has just passed by. After finishing all my work, I am now free to do whatever I want to do. A day full of cleaning the hut, skinning goats and picking fruit is just the usual. I know freedom is on my way, as each day passes by, I know I am getting closer and closer to becoming a man. I can finally get to boss others around instead of getting bossed by others. Anyways, I aimed with my bow and arrow at a cheetah who was attacking a goat today but I was too late. Fortunately, with the help of the almighty Allah, the cheetah ran away, so there was no trouble but the goat had passed away. Father didn’t appreciate my actions, instead of being sad about the loss of our goat, father wasn't comfortable with me being around dangerous animals like that. It is very dangerous because according to father I have not yet learnt how to become a man. I absolutely hate it when everyone says that! I am very tired now, I will write again soon! Goodnight, Kunte Kinte. ||
 * = Kunte Kinte ||= Dec. 1767 ||< **#3** This is horrible, not fair, not real. I am not living my dream, it's like I'm living a nightmare. They have chained me up as if we are monkeys, they whip us as if we are donkeys, they throw some sort of liquid from the sea that stings like hell, they think we are animals, they force us to start dancing whenever they want. I am stuck in this big canoe house. I don't have anywhere to go to do my business, if my stomach comes up, it stays on my face for weeks. I can keep smelling that horrible smell for a long time. It seems as if I have pins and needles all over my body! I am going to get out of here with wrestler, I know I will. Wrestler and I will do anything to escape, together we will do this! In fact, there are about 160 of us and 160 men can of course kill all of the white men. I don't even want to eat the disgusting food they serve because they serve us mashed corn, millet or boiled rice on a plate. It doesn't taste like anything, how can you possibly have tasteless food?! I am going to try to act as if I'm dead so that they can throw me overboard and I can swim back to Gambia, my home, my freedom, my world. Oh how I miss everyone, I wonder how worried father will be. Will I ever get back? I know Allah is listening to my prayers and he will help me get out of this nuisance. Will I stay here forever, where will they take us? My hand is tired from writing all of this, I will write again, Kunte Kinte ||
 * = Mr. Slater ||= Aug. 1767 ||< My 19th boat trip to Africa is going as planned. This time, we are lucky enough to bring along Captain Davies with us as he has no experience in capturing the Africans. We are capturing the Africans to keep them as slaves. I definitely cannot wait to bring back the Africans. Africans don't know how to talk properly, they just speak to each other in grunts and groans. They need proper training from us British when we get back because for now, they are cannibals and have no manners at all. We have planned to bring back 170 of them Africans. We also have all the needed materials for them, thumb screws, chains, etc. I was hoping to bring back more Africans but Captain Davies doesn't like the idea since he believes most of them might die off. I have decided to lay them down side by side. I am a little bit worried about Captain Davies, he seems a little bit hesitant about this but hopefully we won't have to come up with bumps along the way. I must leave now. Goodbye, Slater. ||
 * = Capt. Davies ||= Dec. 1767 ||< I don't know if this idea was a good idea now, I think I'm starting to regret it. I miss you and the kids so much and I can't wait until we get back. I now know for sure that I will never be doing this sort of voyage again. Whenever I see the Africans, they look at us as if they were cursing me; I have never seen such hatred for me. When I see slaves now, I feel so sorrow for them, not a feeling of disgust. They shouldn’t be treated with such little respect as how the other members on the ship do. My dear wife, I have to tell you something important but I know you will never forgive me. I know the almighty God won’t forgive me either as I have committed a sin. Mr. Slater made me fornicate with a girl who was a little older than our daughter; he thought I needed some belly warming. I tried to stop him many times as it is against our religion and I didn’t know what to do! I don’t feel like a true Christian anymore, what I am doing is horrible. I am very sorry my dear wife, please forgive me. How are the kids doing? Are you all okay? Do reply sooner, I feel so guilty of everything, it seems as if I have committed a crime. ||
 * = **Sample****(Kadi Touray)** ||= Aug. 1765 ||< My family and I are still on our way to Kerewan but I'm not sure how much farther we still have to go. Luckily, we accidentally met a local villager named Kunte Kinte who told me that it's one day to Kerewan. The interesting thing is how we met this young man. He knocked Fanta over and spilled our water and knocked over our millet as he was chasing a bird for his manhood training. He obviously needs to learn to run faster because I easily caught up to him and dragged him back to apologize to Fanta for knocking her over. After he clumsily put our stuff back, he bid us farewell and took off again after his bird. I did notice that Fanta gave our visitor a strange look. Perhaps she has been struck by the love arrow. If we do meet Kunte Kinte again, I will make sure he is the right man for my beloved daughter. ||

__Assignment #2 - World Project __ September 11, 2012

Something I found interesting during this project was finding out that I've been to 13 countries around the world. I never knew that until we were assigned this project. I had always felt like I have been to 7 or 8 countries. I would like to visit every country on Earth.
 * Explain one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project? **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I liked the way I created my timeline by creating it colorful and appealing because it looks a little bit eye catching. I also like how it is organized.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Explain one thing you think you did well in this project? **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My map was a bit plain and ordinary so next time I think I might create a more appealing map by having different and unique symbols. I might even color each continent with a different color.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Explain one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another project like this? **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The two life skills I think I practiced during this project are problem solving and time management. I believe that I practiced time management because when I came back after a long holiday from Pakistan, I had a lot of work to catch up on but I still handed in my project in less than 3 days. I also practiced problem solving because when I would accidentally write something wrong with a sharpie, there was no way that I could erase it but luckily I found out a way to solve my problem by using a tape corrector and coloring over it so that it didn't show.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Name at least two life skills you think you practiced during this project. How did you practice these life skills during this project? Be specific. **