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"[In 1500 A.D.,] between 7 and 10 million Indians were unevenly distributed across North America"- Paul Boyer

"In 1500, the people in Mexico probably numbered about 25 million. Farther north in what is now the United States and Canada, there were only about 1 million." -Daniel Boorstin

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"The South went to war on account of slavery."- Col. John Mosby

"[We in the South] did not fight to perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges...and in defense of our homes."- Col. Richard Henry Lee

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"The people stilled continued in the street...and threw some more snow balls [at the soldiers]." - William Tant

"A general attack was made on the men by a great number of...snowballs being thrown." -Capt. Thomas Preston

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"John Brown was almost certainly insane." - John Garraty

"[John Brown is a] man of clear head. They are themselves mistaken who take him to be a madman"- Gov. Henry Wise

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"His whole nature was perfect purity. [Caesar] was the entire and perfect man."- Theodore Mommsen

"Caesar subjected the Roman people to oppression... Is there anyone, except Antony who did not wish for his death?"- Cicero

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"[The Spartans had] superior military training"

"The Persians could not match the Spartans military tactics."

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"Encounters with the Europeans introduced new diseases for which [the Indians] had no resistance."-Encyclopedia of Alabama

"European diseases introduced by early explorers and colonists devastated native populations."- Georgia Encyclopedia

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