100 résultats pour "plantations"
- plantation (géographie) 1 PRÉSENTATION plantation (géographie), grande exploitation agricole des pays tropicaux dont la production est destinée au commerce.
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En matière de plantations,
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empiètent les branches à exiger du propriétaire de les faire couper. En revanche, il n'a pas le droit d'y procéder lui-même . Dans les cas ex trêmes, il peut même de mander l'anrachage des arbres en question . • Feuillage et racines : Lorsque l'on plante un arbre, il est important de penser aussi bien à l'am pleurdu feuillage qu'à l'éten due de ses racines. En effet des feuilles qui en tombent, obstruent les gouttières...
- plantation (économie de), type d'économie reposant sur des cultures spéculatives.
- DISTANCE ET HAUTEUR DES PLANTATIONS
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African American History - U.
In their day-to-day lives, slaves and servants shared similar grievances and frequently formed alliances. Advertisements seeking the return of slaves and servants whohad run away together filled colonial newspapers. When a slave named Charles escaped in 1740, the Pennsylvania Gazette reported that two white servants, a 'Scotch man' and an Englishman, escaped with him. Sometimes interracial alliances involved violence. During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, slaves and servants took up armsagainst Na...
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Slavery in Africa.
The spread of Islam from Arabia into Africa after the religion’s founding in the 7th century AD affected the practice of slavery and slave trading in West, Central, and East Africa. Arabs had practiced slave raiding and trading in Arabia for centuries prior to the founding of Islam, and slavery became a component of Islamic traditions.Both the Qur'an (Koran) (the sacred scripture of Islam) and Islamic religious law served to codify and justify the existence of slavery. As Muslim Arabs conquered...
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Slavery in the United States - U.
tripled, from about 1.2 million to almost 4 million in 1860. The natural growth of the slave population meant that slavery could survive without new slave imports. Natural population growth also hastened the transition from an African to an African American slave population. By the 1770s, only about 20 percent of slaves in thecolonies were African-born, although the concentration of Africans remained higher in South Carolina and Georgia. After 1808 the proportion of African-born slavesbecame tin...
- Maurice : Plantations de canne à sucre.
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- Discours à l'occasion de la plantation d'un arbre
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Atlantic Slave Trade.
members of the planters’ society. Through most of the years of the Atlantic trade, prices for Africans remained favorable in relation to the price of the crops theyproduced. They were, thus, the best economic solution for plantation owners seeking inexpensive labor. The Atlantic slave trade began as a trickle in the 1440s and grew slowly through the 17th century. By 1700, 25,000 slaves, on average, were crossing the Atlantic everyyear. After 1700 the trade grew much more rapidly to a peak in the...
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Costa Rica - country.
protection from future deforestation is not guaranteed. Deforestation places Costa Rica’s rich biodiversity in danger. The country’s location on the cusp between Northand South America and its abundance of tropical forests make it home to a great variety of species, many of them rare and threatened. Deforestation also contributesto the country’s problematic rate of soil erosion. Costa Rica is party to international treaties concerning biodiversity, climate change ( see Global Warming), endangere...
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Honduras - country.
A Principal Cities The capital and largest city of Honduras is Tegucigalpa (2006 estimate, 1,324,000), located in the south-central highlands region. The country’s second largest city isSan Pedro Sula (549,498). The principal city and commercial center in the north, it lies in the heart of the vast banana plantations on the Caribbean Sea. La Ceiba(127,590) and Puerto Cortés (90,161) are among the leading Caribbean ports. B Language and Religion Spanish is the official language and is spoken by...
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Malaysia.
celle des plantations d'hévéas, et par l'activité portuaire qui en résulta ; Kuala Lumpur est née précisément d'un village de mineurs. En 2005, le pays sera doté d'une nouvelle capitale administrative, Putrajaya, édifiée au sud de Kuala Lumpur, qui restera la métropole économique. L'étain et l'hévéa sont à la base du développement économique du pays. Ces ressources ont été complétées par le minerai de fer et les hydrocarbures. Les productions de caoutchouc, de cacao et de bois tro...
- ENFANT DE LA PLANTATION (L') José Lins Do Rego
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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Blacks in Latin America.
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean the slave population declined at the astonishing rate of 2 to 4 percent a year; thus, by the time slavery was abolished, theoverall slave population in many places was far less than the total number of slaves imported. The British colony of Jamaica, for example, imported more than 600,000slaves during the 18th century; yet, in 1838, the slave population numbered little more than 300,000. The French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti)imported mo...
- L'énergie à tout prix Jeune plantation de palmiers à huile autour de Pundu sur l'île de Bornéo, Indonésie.
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Antigua and Barbuda - country.
The monetary unit of Antigua and Barbuda is the East Caribbean (EC) dollar of 100 cents (2.70 East Caribbean dollars equal U.S.$1, a fixed rate since 1976). VI ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS The growth of the tourist industry has created some environmental problems, including uncontrolled disposal of sewage from hotels on the beach. Hotel developmentalso threatens the Antiguan mangrove trees. Water management is another major area of concern because of limited natural freshwater resources. Coral reefs...
- Étudier la transformation du blé en pain Découvrir Du grain à la farine o Rappeler les observations faites à l'occasion de la fiche Faire des plantations (SC05).
- TOUSSAINT-LOUVERTURE, François-Dominique Toussaint, dit (20 mai 1743-avril 1803) Homme politique, fondateur d'Haïti Noir, François-Dominique est le fils d'un esclave et le premier nom qu'il porte est celui de Bréda, nom de l'une des plantations qui appartient au comte de Noë.
- TOUSSAINT-LOUVERTURE, François-Dominique Toussaint, dit (20 mai 1743-avril 1803) Homme politique, fondateur d'Haïti Noir, François-Dominique est le fils d'un esclave et le premier nom qu'il porte est celui de Bréda, nom de l'une des plantations qui appartient au comte de Noë.
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La législation des Arbres
on peut les ramasser et se les approprier ; le voisin ne peut venir les réclamer. Le voisin refuse de couper sesbranches : il ne faut rien faire soi-même, mais saisir le tribunal d'instance du lieu, qui l'y contraindra. Racines qui dépassent Là, on peut les couper soi-même sans l'autorisation du voisin. Inversement, on ne peut contraindre le voisin à le faire. On a donc la possibilité soit de les couper, soit de les laisser pousser chez soi. Lepropriétaire qui subit un dommage causé par le...
- TOUSSAINT-LOUVERTURE, François-Dominique Toussaint, dit (20 mai 1743-avril 1803) Homme politique, fondateur d'Haïti Noir, François-Dominique est le fils d'un esclave et le premier nom qu'il porte est celui de Bréda, nom de l'une des plantations qui appartient au comte de Noë.
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Les Fruits tropicaux
LA BANANE ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT 126 Les Fruits tropicaux I On cueille les bananes lorsqu'elles sont vertes afin de conserver leur saveur. Ci-dessus, un employé manipulant les fruits très soigneusement pour ne pas les abîmer. nent des fibres dont on se sert pour fabriquer des sacs ou des tapis. Les larges feuilles de certains bananiers servent aussi à construire des toitures. Où poussent les bananes? Les bananiers poussent de préférence dans des endroits chauds et humides, o...
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café.
La production et la consommation. Le premier producteur mondial de café est le Brésil, devançant largement des pays comme la Colombie, l'Indonésie, le Guatemala, le Mexique et l'Éthiopie. L'usage du café s'est répandu d'Afrique orientale en Arabie au XV e siècle ; le port de Moka en devint le principal centre de commerce. Le café fut introduit en Europe vers la fin du XVI e siècle, et en France au XVII e siècle. Les pays à forte consommation de café par habitant sont d'abord les pays nordique...
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Côte-d'Ivoire.
Les livres Abidjan - le quartier du Plateau, page 7, volume 1 caoutchouc - élaboration mécanisée du caoutchouc cru en Côte-d'Ivoire, page 856, volume 2 Côte-d'Ivoire - la basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, à Yamoussoukro, page 1281, volume 3 Côte-d'Ivoire - quartier périphérique nord de Bouaké, page 1282, volume 3 Côte-d'Ivoire - Abidjan, page 1282, volume 3 Côte-d'Ivoire - plantation d'ananas à Bareta-Spadi, page 1282, volume 3 Sénoufos, page 4738, volume 9 Yamoussoukro, page 5635, volum...
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Suriname (country) - country.
Tongo, a Creole language. Also known as Taki-Taki, Sranang Tongo includes elements of several languages and is the vehicle for most interethnic communication. Otherlanguages spoken in Suriname include Hindi, Javanese, Chinese, English, and French. Small numbers of Native Americans still speak indigenous languages. The main religions in Suriname are Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. The majority of Christians are Roman Catholics, and members of the Moravian Church predominateamong Protestants. E...
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Grande île montagneuse de l'océan Indien, Madagascar est au
contact des cultures de l'Asie et de l'Afrique.
les savanes ( savoka ) se sont étendues. Néanmoins, la flore malgache reste l'une des plus riches en espèces, et nombre de ces espèces lui sont spécifiques. Ainsi, une forêt des environs de Toleara, dans le Sud-Ouest, présente un baobab ( Adansonia grandidieri ) que l'on trouve uniquement à Madagascar. L'isolement de l'île explique également le caractère très particulier de la faune. De nombreux invertébrés (araignées), poissons, tous d'origine marine, grenouilles (160 espèces), tortues, camé...
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Cuba.
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Cuba : drapeau et hymne
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Plantation de tabac dans le Pinar del Río (Cuba)Lors de la révolution menée par Fidel Castro à Cuba, en 1959, les propriétaires terriens ont été chassés des grandes plaines du pays.Leurs domaines ont été nationalisés et convertis en plantations de canne à sucre, de café, d'agrumes et de tabac. Cette exploitationde tabac est située dans la vallée de Viñales, dans la région du Pinar del Río, cœur de la culture du tabac cubain.Richard Bickel/Corbis La côte septentrionale est rocheuse et escarpée, à...
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Immense cuvette arrosée par le fleuve Zaïre, en Afrique
centrale, l'ex-Congo belge, colonisé dès 1885, est devenu avec
l'indépendance, en 1960, une République à pouvoir personnel fort.
Maï Ndombé (lac) Oubangui Rift Valley Ruwenzori Shaba Tanganyika (lac) Virunga (chaîne des) Les livres tropiques - le lac Kivu près de Goma, au Zaïre, page 5297, volume 10 volcanologie - éruption du Nyiragongo (Zaïre), page 5579, volume 10 Zaïre - pêche à l'aide de nasses dans le Zaïre, page 5664, volume 10 Zaïre - le lac Kivu, dans l'est du pays, page 5664, volume 10 Les aspects humains. La population compte un grand nombre de groupes ethniques, dont les principaux sont les Kongo...
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Hawaii (state) - geography.
limestone along the coast. The volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are all so-called shield volcanoes, or lava domes. Unlike the volcanoes of Alaska and South America, those of Hawaii were notcreated by very explosive eruptions. Formed mostly by lava flows, they are great rounded mountain masses, rather than steep-sided cones. Mauna Kea, dormant forcenturies, is the highest mountain in the state. It rises to 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level, and its summit is dotted with cinder cones formed by...
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Hawaii (state) - USA History.
limestone along the coast. The volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are all so-called shield volcanoes, or lava domes. Unlike the volcanoes of Alaska and South America, those of Hawaii were notcreated by very explosive eruptions. Formed mostly by lava flows, they are great rounded mountain masses, rather than steep-sided cones. Mauna Kea, dormant forcenturies, is the highest mountain in the state. It rises to 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level, and its summit is dotted with cinder cones formed by...
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Guyana - country.
European patterns of living. People of mixed African and European ancestry form a distinct group in Guyana, maintaining closer social ties to the European communitythan to the African Guyanese community. Asians from the Indian subcontinent began to arrive in the 19th century, following the abolition of slavery in Guyana, to work as indentured and contract laborers. Theycontinued to arrive until 1917, when Britain outlawed indentured servitude. Thousands of Indians chose to remain in Guyana after...
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Mississippi - geography.
The climate of Mississippi is characterized by long, hot, and humid summers and generally mild winters. The higher lands in the northeast are usually cooler than otherareas of the state. D1 Temperature Average January temperatures range from about 6° C (about 42° F) in northeastern Mississippi to about 12° C (about 54° F) along the Gulf Coast. No part of the stateis entirely free from freezing temperatures, but prolonged periods of extreme cold rarely occur. Temperatures more than 15° C (30° F)...
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Mississippi - USA History.
The climate of Mississippi is characterized by long, hot, and humid summers and generally mild winters. The higher lands in the northeast are usually cooler than otherareas of the state. D1 Temperature Average January temperatures range from about 6° C (about 42° F) in northeastern Mississippi to about 12° C (about 54° F) along the Gulf Coast. No part of the stateis entirely free from freezing temperatures, but prolonged periods of extreme cold rarely occur. Temperatures more than 15° C (30° F)...
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LES CULTURES TROPICALES
Les cultures tropicales aux côtés de la production dévolue à leur propre consommation. Dans certaines régions, les plan tations furent rachetées par des multinationales étrangères, qui employaient souvent des direc teurs et des ouvriers locaux. D'autres devinrent des copropriétés que se partageaient plusieurs métayers. D'autres encore, comme à_ Cuba, furent transformées en exploitations d'Etat dont les ouvriers devinrent des fonctionnaires. Les cultures c...
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Jamaica - country.
majority, the Church of God, Baptists, Anglicans, Seventh-day Adventists, Pentecostalists, and Roman Catholics predominate. Several well-established Jewish, Muslim,and Hindu communities exist. A number of popular sects, such as Pocomania and Rastafarianism, are a significant and famous feature of the national religious life. C Education School attendance by children between the ages of 6 and 11 is nearly universal, and 84 percent of all 12- to 18-year-olds attend secondary institutions. In 2000...
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Abolitionist Movement.
The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799), widely seen as revolutions by citizens against oppressive rulers, transformed thisEnlightenment assertion into a call for universal liberty and freedom. The successful slave revolt that began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 was part of this revolutionary age. Led by François Dominique ToussaintLouverture, black rebels overthrew the colonial government, ended slavery in the colony, and in 1804 established th...
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Abolitionist Movement - U.
The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799), widely seen as revolutions by citizens against oppressive rulers, transformed thisEnlightenment assertion into a call for universal liberty and freedom. The successful slave revolt that began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 was part of this revolutionary age. Led by François Dominique ToussaintLouverture, black rebels overthrew the colonial government, ended slavery in the colony, and in 1804 established th...
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Exposé d'histoire la traite négriere
Mais si la culture du sucre consomme tant d'esclave, c’est qu’elle les use vite, obligeant les planteurs à y affecter les esclaves les plus jeunes, quitte à les fouetter lorsque la productivité ralentit. Par « Commerce triangulaire », on désigne les échanges entre l'Europe, l'Afrique et les Amériques. Il a été mis en place pour assurer la distribution d'esclaves noirs aux colonies du Nouveau Monde lors de la Traite atlantique (ou Traite occidentale) et a duré quatre siècles (de 144...
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Les Caraïbes
La Havane :cinq siècles d'architecture espagnole à l'abandon et des palais devenus HLM. ÉTATS-UNIS golfe du Mexique -- petites a Antilles e ''''"Iéerlandaises 1000 km SAINTE-LUCIE SAINT-VINCENT ET LES GRENADINES GRENADE TIRNITÉ- ETTOBAGO ) BARBADE Cuba À 200 km de la Floride (États-Unis), l'île de Cuba, la plus grande des Caraïbes (plus de I 000 km d'est en ouest), espagnole de 1492 à 1898, fut un centre de commerce très actif, avec de...
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caoutchouc.
vulcanisation Les médias caoutchouc - production mondiale Les livres caoutchouc - production de caoutchouc dans le monde, page 856, volume 2 Malaysia - traitement du caoutchouc, page 2995, volume 6 Indonésie - plantation d'hévéas dans le nord, page 2509, volume 5 plantes, page 3943, volume 7
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São Tomé e Príncipe.
1471 ces îles qu'ils baptisèrent São Tomé et Santo Antão (plus tard Príncipe). Les premiers colons débarquèrent à la fin du XV e siècle, mais ce fut au XVI e siècle que les îles se développèrent, avec l'introduction de la canne à sucre et du système esclavagiste. La ville de São Tomé joua un rôle administratif important : fondée en 1504, elle devint en 1534 le siège d'un évêché dont l'autorité s'étendait sur le continent africain depuis la Guinée jusqu'au cap de Bonne-Espérance. Les deux îles,...
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dominicaine (République).
bovins et d'équidés surveillés par quelques esclaves noirs. En 1795, la colonie passa sous la tutelle des Français qui dominaient déjà Haïti depuis le traité de Ryswick (1697). Santo Domingo redevint espagnole en 1814, mais la République voisine d'Haïti, indépendante depuis 1804, exerçait une grande attraction sur les Dominicains. En 1822, le président haïtien Jean-Pierre Boyer réalisa l'unification de l'île. Mais la fusion fut rendue impossible par le décalage des structures politiques et éco...
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Dominica - country.
Other crops are being promoted to diversify the economy away from reliance on bananas. They include coffee, cacao, mangoes, citrus fruit, and root vegetables. Pumice is quarried and exported on Dominica. Manufacturing is on a small scale and largely limited to the processing of farm products. The main manufactured goodsare fruit juices, alcoholic beverages, soap, and essential oils. The island also has electronic assembly plants, data-processing companies, and garment manufacturers. The governme...
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Barbados - country.
Barbados is served by a public library system centered in Bridgetown. B Culture The culture of Barbados combines English institutions, which evolved through more than three centuries of English rule, with a folk culture of African origin. Because ofits English traditions, Barbados is sometimes called “Little England.” Cricket has traditionally been the national game, and the island has produced some of the sport’sgreatest players. Water sports including surfing, swimming, snorkeling, and sailin...
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Fiji Islands - country.
the early 1990s. Fishing is done mainly at a subsistence level, but commercial fishing is increasing. The country also receives income from the sale of licenses to foreignvessels to fish in Fiji’s exclusive economic zone. Industry, including mining, manufacturing, and construction, employs 34 percent of Fiji’s wage earners and, in 2006, contributed 26 percent of GDP. The governmentinstituted tax-free incentives in 1988 that created a flourishing garment industry. Ready-made garments are now the...
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Trinidad and Tobago - country.
III PEOPLE The history of Trinidad and Tobago is reflected in the makeup of its population, among the most ethnically diverse in the Caribbean. Blacks of African ancestry andAsians of Indian ancestry each make up about 40 percent of the population. The remainder is mainly of mixed ancestry, although there are also small groups of peopleof Chinese, European, South American, and Middle Eastern descent. The ethnic diversity of Trinidad and Tobago owes its origins to slavery and its abolition. Afr...
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Puerto Rico - geography.
the length of the day remains fairly constant throughout the year. San Juan has a mean July temperature of 28°C (83°F) and a mean January temperature of 25°C (77°F). The average temperature of the seawater surrounding theisland is 27°C (81°F), with little variation during the course of the year. The entire island is cooled by the trade winds from the northeast. This air also contains much water vapor. As the air is forced to rise over the mountains, it becomescooler and the water vapor condenses...