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…and the decimal system. They were the first people to use notation by tens. Even the Arabs called math "the Indian Art." The monasteries became Universities with large libraries used to study astronomy and mathematics. We still use all of these ideas in our math…

…considerably as he faced the humiliation and oppression that was commonly directed to Indians in that country. His journey to Pretoria served as a catalyst for his activism. First, he was thrown off a train because he refused to move from first class to third even…

…different country, great changes were also taking place. Although this occurred ± 11 000 years later, the first “natives” who lived in America were the Paleo-Indians who arrived over an ice-corridor from Siberia, before dispersing into the Western hemisphere…

…subsidiary apart from the economic factors. In addition, 80% of wines sold in India are domestically produced because Indians are overwhelmingly drinking their own, home-grown vintages, Ahmed (2004). Furthermore, the Australian dollar is very strong…

…of the Gulf Coast. The many Indian tribes of the region, he assured the king would "become good French subjects, so that, without drawing any considerable number of men from Europe, they will form a powerful colony, with enough troops to act in any emergency." (Cox…

…surprised, but also the Indians as well for they at least already had adapted to this land and now they had to deal with intruders of all types, the English, the French and the Spaniards. In the end no one really won. A Long Beginning England was convinced…

…, of the Indian social system, though both his father and grandfather had been prime ministers in the government of local, princely states. In his famous An Autobiography, which he subtitled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi tells of his early life…

…separate states, and Nathuram Godse, an Indian Hindu fanatic, was one of these. He believed that Gandhi was wrong in letting Jinna create the Muslim state of Pakistan, and decided to kill him. On the evening of Janurary 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi…

…Suicide Among Native Americans: A Growing Epidemic "Suicide is the third leading cause of death... in the United States." [Borowsky et al., 574] However, "[s]uicide rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives...are two to three times higher than…

…is an example of women in a developing country, fighting for their own rights. Its origin is from India. Indian women have had an extremely difficult time developing under the oppression of a male-dominated society, class and religion. Women's place in society has…