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This was discovered way before it even got created fully. This discovery was made my Arabs in the 10th century.
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Magnificent saga Indian Ocean paradise until discovered in early 16th century. Earths last Eden.
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Traders made contact with coastal kingdoms and became first in a long line of interested foreigners.
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Came while pioneering new route to East Indies, named it Ilha de Cerne (Island of the swan)
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The Dutch settled here and that gave the introduction to sugar canes; they lived off sugar cane trading and stuff like that. Sugar is the life blood of The island. Slaves were imported and the Dutch gave it its original name.
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Dutch east India killed the Dodo birds.
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The Dutch completely abandoned the island and it fell into the French’s hands. Aristocratic government, governed by Bertrand Labourdonnais
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When the Island fell into the French hands, the greatest social status language is French. Then more languages started being in this Island. English, French, Mauritian Creole, French based Creole; ethnic languages are a lot too. Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Mayalam, Marathi, Urdu, and Mandarin.
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Established plantation economy of sugar canes.
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Whole Senegal got taken over by French
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It was around the Indian ocean and Atlantic Ocean. Also Europe and north amaerica, as well as other seas. All about various conflicts between French to be exchanged five conflicts.
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The British captured the Island during the Napoleonic Wars, because of the Treaty of Paris.
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Post Louis the capital of Mauritius became a cheerful jumble of French, Chinese, Creole, and Hindi spoken and and shoppers and traders. Which led to the 20th century’s melting pot!
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French deputy in French parliament got elected.
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He described Mauritius as heaven, saying “heaven was copied after Mauritius”
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Island was made into a cultural melting pot. Many different mix of cultures
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Mauritius has religions Hinduism (49%) Christianity (33%) Islam (17%) Buddhism (.18%)
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First African deputy Blaise Diagne got elected.
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Mauritius played an important roll in this war, because British had a naval base here. They checked anti submarine and convoy operations. Also signal collections
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Joined French Sudan form federation with Mali
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Independence from France
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Independence from Mali federation
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This dance was made by African slaves during the French colonial period. It became popular in the 1960’s. They wear colorful skirts, colorful make up, and graceful movements, a lot of hip moves. There’s drums playing while dancing.
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The constitution of Mauritius is very similar to the constitution of the U.S. The three inalienable rights though are life, liberty, and security.
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Abdou Diouf got elected as president
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Incident on Mauritanian border leading to riots and deportations.
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Made government paranoid by civic unrest. Opposition leader, Abdoulaye Wade got arrested charged by sedition.
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Abdoulaye Wade becomes the former president
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Huge tragedy the MS Joola, a ferry connecting to Dakar and Casamance capsized due to dangerous overload killing 2000 people.
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This bank promotes and maintains monetary and financial stability
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