The French Subjunctive in Context: a comparative study of
The French Subjunctive in Context: a comparative study of

Age of Discovery Notes
Age of Discovery Notes

... o It's important to remember that in 1400, Europeans knew little more of the world's surface than had the ancient Romans o In 1350, it took the same amount of time to sail from one end of the Mediterranean to the other as it had 1000 years before o As late as 1325, there was still no regular sea tra ...
Exploration
Exploration

...  In fact, so much did the middle class adopt coffee as their own that money began flowing out of Germany at such a rate that a public relations campaign was begun to convince Germans their national drink was beer! Not only did new foods and beverages arrive from the New World but new cooking techni ...

Civilizing mission

The mission civilisatrice (the French for ""civilizing mission""; Portuguese: Missão civilizadora)is a rationale for intervention or colonization, proposing to contribute to the spread of civilization, mostly in reference to the Westernization of indigenous peoples.It was notably the underlying principle of French and Portuguese colonial rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was influential in the French colonies of Algeria, French West Africa, and Indochina, and in the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Guinea, Mozambique and Timor. The European colonial powers felt it was their duty to bring Western civilization to what they perceived as backward peoples. Rather than merely govern colonial peoples, the Europeans would attempt to Westernize them in accordance with a colonial ideology known as ""assimilation"".Today the whole Araucanía is subjugated, more than to the material forces, to the moral and civilizing force of the republic...