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Japan: Geography Description (2) |
As a result. the geography of Japan is most similar to Godzilla. The rough and jagged horns on its tail resemble mountains. Its ability to spit out fire is like a volcano. Each step that it takes, whether it's on water or land, is like an earthquake or tsunami. |
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Japan: Mountains (3) |
- the mountains of Japan contain 10 per-cent of the world's most active volcanoes. Mt. Fuji, Japan's most famous mountain and one of its most beautiful and revered, is a dormant volcano |
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Japan: Location and Size (1) |
Japan is an island nation in east Asiacomparable to the size of California. Considered as an archipelagomade up of a chain of more than a thousand islands with four main islands making up 98% of land area. , Japan is located east of the Korean peninsula and along the Pacific Ring of Fire where a lot of plate tectonic movement occurs. |
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Japan: Effects (4) |
1- With such a mountainous terrain, most of the land is not arable with only about 15% of the land suitable for agriculture. They had to adjust, make use of space, terrace-farming 2- With a location close to china, there is a lot of selective borrowing; Chinese-style bureaucracy; Chinese characters simplified inJapanese writing; migration of Buddhism from China to Korea to Japan |
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Greece: General Description (1) |
is a peninsular country, possessing an archipelago of about 3,000 islands. divided into three geographical regions: the mainland, the islands, and Peloponnese, the peninsula south of the mainland. |
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Greece: Location (2) |
Ancient Greece can be found at the tip of Balcan peninsula in Southwestern Europe. -surrounded by three seas: in the south is the Mediterranean Sea; Ionian Sea in the west; and the Aegean Sea in the east. -The Corint Gulf connects the separate region of the the southern tip of Greece and Africa |
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Greece: Mountain (3) |
- The Pindus Mountain is considered the dominant mountain range, running down the middle of the Balkan Peninsula. -Almost 70 to 80 percent of Greece is covered and dominated with mountains -Mountains served as a natural barrier separating various regions of Greece. |
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Greece: Mountain Effects (4) |
-Influenced the development of city-states - mountainous terrain separatedwithout isolating -people shared a common language, mythology, and competition inOlympic games - political systems grew in different directions; independent governmentsand armies often clashed in many wars; at times city-states united against enemies like thePersians |
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Greece: Sea Effects (5) |
-terrain drove them to the Mediterranean Sea -rugged terrain limited crops and overland trade was difficult -trade was important to the Greeks; Greek ideas, technology, and philosophies were shared -maritime trade |
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Similarities |
- Religion; respect nature (Amaterasu, Poseidon, Demeter, Gaia) - Fish as their staple food |
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Contrast |
- Japan wanted to be secluded and isolated for the most part |
