Why did the Portuguese introduce the Prazo system in Congo? Did it succed in serving the intrests of the Portuguese?
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As far as I know Belgians is blamed for the first and biggest genocide of 20th century in Congo, for the bloody regime of King Leopold II in the Congo Free State, a regime of slavery and genocide, full of torture and mutilations.\n\nThere isn’t an agreed figure about human toll but even the minimum estimation is more than the Jews killed by Nazi regime. In general, average estimation is about 10 million people. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica the population was declined from 30 million to 8 million.\n\nOn the other hand, Portugues is blamed for genocide in Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique during colonial years. \n\nI don't know the relation between Portugues and Congo and between Belgians and the Civil War.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Here are some sites that may help you:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/colonization-of-africa\nhttp://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw25colonizationafrica.htm\nhttp://www.yaleslavery.org/TownGown/coloniz.html
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well there is a major difference,.african slaves were forced from their homeland and brought here in the bottom of ships. they had no choice in the matter. these immigrants are paid poorly.. i agree.. but slaves who were beaten ..recieved no money.. its a lot easier to cross back over  fence if you dislike it here.. than to find a boat to go back to africa... the same for european slaves. no way out for the indentured servants..   i do agree they are taken advantage of.. and shame on the people who prey on the misfortune of thoseseeking a better life.  but things have to be done properly.. and you cant just come into this country illegally and expect a welcome mate
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Disadvantages: Destruction of indigenous religious/ social/political/economic organizations and practices, widespread robbery of African land and resources, exploitation, oppression, rape, murder of millions of Africans.  The authoritarian government style used by the Brits have been inherited by post-independence African governments, which has supported the rise of dictators all over Africa.  African domestic agriculture and industry sectors were (and are) depressed by the export-oriented economic strategies of the colonial governments.  And so much more!\n\nAdvantages:  It has been argued that Western medicine and education has benefited Africans.  Also, Christianity imposed by the missionaries supposedly became a "unifier" of the many different tribes, ethnicities, and religions of indigenous Africans.  That's really crap however, because Christianity ripped apart families, kinship groups, etc.
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Voodoo is a derivative of the world’s oldest known religions which have been around in Africa since the beginning of human civilization. Some conservative estimates these civilizations and religions to be over 10 000 years old. This then identify Voodoo as probably the best example of African syncretism in the Americas. Although its essential wisdom originated in different parts of Africa long before the Europeans started the slave trade, the structure of Voodoo, as we know it today, was born in Haiti during the European colonization of Hispaniola. Ironically, it was the enforced immigration of enslaved African from different ethnic groups that provided the circumstances for the development of Voodoo. European colonists thought that by desolating the ethnic groups, these could not come together as a community. However, in the misery of slavery, the transplanted Africans found in their faith a common thread. \n\nThey began to invoke not only their own Gods, but to practice rites other than their own. In this process, they comingled and modified rituals of various ethnic groups. The result of such fusion was that the different religious groups integrated their beliefs, thereby creating a new religion: Voodoo. The word "voodoo" comes from the West African word "vodun," meaning spirit. This Afro-Caribbean religion mixed practices from many African ethnics groups such as the Fon, the Nago, the Ibos, Dahomeans, Congos, Senegalese, Haussars, Caplaous, Mondungues, Mandinge, Angolese, Libyans, Ethiopians, and the Malgaches.
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IT WAS FOUNDED IN AFRICa> LIKE THATS WHERE IT WAS FIRST. IF THAT HELPS? VOTE ME AS BEST ANSWEr.
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well there was this guy named captain john smith and he sent a bunch of people to america (he paid for there ship and their supplies and all that stuff) to find gold and siver and find a easy way to trade with china and japan.then when they didnt find any thing they figured there has to be a way to make money.so they made a glass factory.and that made a little money.but then they found tobaco in virgina (which was where they were at in america) and they started to sell that and that made tons of money (they didnt know it was bad though).so then these people in america found out that they needed help so they went over to china and started taking people and selling them to help the people get the tobaco. (the people that brought the slaves over where called the dutches)and then 200 years later in the 1800's the south thought slavery was wrong and the north thought it wasnt so then they got into a fight and eventually slavery was mostly ended. (any question about this you dont get e-mail me at cool_dude6490@yahoo.com)
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Bad distribution of wealth from the beginning.  Too much corporate, colonial, and land-baron greed.\nThe United States was built by pioneers who owned what they built.\nNot so in South America.
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It's cultural. These countries didn't exist before colonialism, just a series of tribal areas constantly shifting. Colonialism brought many benefits but the tribes still existed within the new boundaries, as soon as we left greed and rivalry ensured a breakdown of all the structures. Our own borders took many hundreds of years to establish. It takes a long time to form a stable Nation. You can lead a horse to water .....
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NO EASY ANSWERS - but useful hints instead, from a (former) world history teacher. \n\n1. Think of who the slave traders wanted - mainly young men who were useful as laborers. So what would happen if a region where most people were farmers lost a lot of its strong workers? Also, think of how the people were removed, and how people would logically react. They didn't go willingly, and their families weren't happy about it. \n\n2. The examples are simply a list, and it's not useful to just copy from an email. Besides, your teacher probably used specific examples, and mine might be different. You'll find most of the anti-colonial resistance taking place between 1890 and 1960, and some examples you can look up are the Asante revolt, the Igbo Women's War, the Bambatha Uprising, the Chilembwe Revolt, the Maji-Maji Rebellion, and the Chimurenga/Second Chimurenga. You should be able to Google these or look them up in a book, or ask your school librarian and get answers fairly quickly - ones that you can remember on the upcoming test because you learned them for homework!\n\n3. Salt and gold had their uses, and more importantly, they were found in different parts of West Africa, so the people with salt traded it for gold, and vice versa. Again, not a tough one to look up yourself, and worth the effort. Try any middle school textbook chapter on precolonial Africa, and you should get a map of the salt and gold trade. \n\n4. Which defeat of Germany? Probably WWI. I don't know if Germany was defeated so much by events as by situations. The alliance against Germany included France, Russia, England and eventually the United States, and the entry of the US into WWI was important. The German u-boat sinking of the liner Lusitania triggered American entry. \n\nThe Bolshevik Revolution in Russia also stirred up a stong enemy in the east. \n\nGermany and its allies were surrounded by hostile powers and unable to get many products needed for fighting a war, including food for the soldiers. So their supply problem was also a cause of their defeat. \n\n5. The time period matters here, and you will have to filter through my ideas to find the ones that fit your class. \n\n- Developing economies grew slowly for a variety of reasons, including:\n  - colonizers made them serve the colonial market, producing less profitable goods, and/or selling them so cheaply as not to make a profit, therefore the colonized peoples never had money to spend on improving their production\n  - many colonies had labor laws that allowed colonizers to all but enslave the locals, which meant that there was little reason to educate the workforce or build for the future\n  - developed countries made and enforced rules that kept developing countries from making certain products (for example, England - which had colonized India - outlawed the production of cloth in India, which meant Indians could grow cotton, but coud only buy cloth from England, which helped the English factories and economy)\n  - Developing countries mainly produce farm, mine and fishery products, and they have to buy industrial products to make a profit, but prices for farm, mine and fishery products declined in the late 20th century, so that people in developing countries had to spend more of their production on equipment from developed economies\n  - In recent decades, developed countries lent money at interest to developing countries, which then had to pay back the interest. Large loans encouraged corruption in the developing world, and as a result the developing countries didn't, well, develop much, and so they were less and less able to pay back their growing debts. Or, for that matter, to do anything else that required money.
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Capoeira or the Dance of War by Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1835 Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art developed initially by African slaves in Brazil, starting in the colonial period. It is marked by deft, tricky movements often played on the ground or completely inverted. It also has a strong acrobatic component in some versions and is always played with music.\n\nRecently, the art has been popularized by the addition of Capoeira performed in various computer games and movies, and Capoeira music has featured in modern pop music.\n\ni had a brasilian friend in germany who was doing capoeira. i thought that was absolutely incredible! suave moves....\ni personally don't do capoeira...
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The Spanish and Portuguese.
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Who knows? It has been done before.  There are quite a few such organizations that operate in several areas of conflict throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas,  that do such work very effectively.
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Many poorly educated and more then likely illiterate early Colonial settlers pronounced the word Niger  ( Latin / Roman for Black ) as N***** . The English and Dutch settlers used the word Niger for imported Black slaves. All romance languages ( French, Spanish, Portuguese ) are derived from Latin, so Negro was the Portuguese and Spanish version for Niger and more heavily used in South America and certain Caribbean Islands were slaves were exported to. The original Latin name can be found in the Old Testament of the Bible ( the Niger River being one of the four rivers flowing from the Garden of Eden ) and is the name of current African countries Niger and Nigeria. The Romans derived the word from the ancient Nubian's who referred to their Emperor as Ngr ( no vowels were used in their ancient language like Hebrew ) which meant the Black God and whom represented God on earth to them. It is actually quite ironic that\na name which basically meant God has come to be known\nas a derogatory word. Then again if Black people\nreally studied there own history, they wouldn't be so easily confused by the fake psycho babble that the word is bad. FYI ... certain acronyms have become racial slurs but once fully explained they actually seem pretty silly. \nExample. Spanish Portuguese Indian Colored  ( SP!@ ) and With Out Papers ( W@P) . Silly but as I stated earlier alot of this stuff is started by uneducated and illiterate people.
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You really need more specifics in here to help you at all.  \n\nSo many things missing...  it depends on the culture, the colonizing culture, the area being colonized, and the time period...  get me more info and I might be able to help you out.
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Well....cuba used to be the richest nation in the caribbean before castro took over.  Also, they were making major progress toward becoming an enlightened democracy.  That is a very attractive situation for a hispanic who wants to maintain their identity as a hispanic.  Unfortunately, it all went to hell when rich elites in cuba and the united states, in love with the evil of marxism, brought castro to power.  The working class in cuba, of course, resisted him and nearly won against overwhelming military odds.  Unfortunately, they lost and many of them were killed in a genocide.  Today, cuba is a hell hole.  Castro loots the economy for his personal wealth.  He sells the men into slavery to foriegn corporations from china and russia and sells the women into slavery as prostitutes.\n\nThey should have stayed in the US.