Answer to Question #105841 in History for Ayanda Ntinga

Question

Provide a brief definition of each about 3 lines and illustrate using your own words.
1. VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
2.DIVINE RIGHT
3.SOCIAL CONTRACT
4.THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
5.ARIENTALIST
6.THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Answer 1

1. Voyage of discovery is a situation in which you learn a lot of new things about something or someone.

2. The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy.

3. The social contract is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.

4. The Scramble for Africa, also called the Partition of Africa or the Conquest of Africa, was the invasion, occupation, division, and colonisation of African territory by European powers during a short period known to historians as the New Imperialism (between 1881 and 1914).

5. Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West.

6. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s.