Alps

World History Impact of Geographical Factors on the Greek and the Roman Empire Geography can be considered as one of the integral parts of the development of the Greek civilization. Notably, the geographical factors had a significant effect on the Greek social, political, and economic growth. One of the principal reasons why the Greece was majorly dominated by tiny states and some other independent towns as opposed to being dominated by one all-powerful king was the geographical status. The…

Arsenic and metals in feces, liver, bone and feathers Arsenic concentrations in feces at d8 varied significantly among the four treatment groups (Table 1, Figure 2), and were highest in the Smelter group, followed by the High As group, and then the Low group, with levels respectively 16.6, 9.6 and 3.7 times higher than the Control group. Fecal Cd, Cu, Ni and Pb concentrations tend to be higher in the Smelter group (significantly higher for Ni) as compared to the groups from the unpolluted area…

The Iceman, also called Ötzi, is a mummy from the Stone Ages who was discovered by hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon in the Alps in the late 1900s. The Iceman when he was found was stuck in a glacier called the Niederjoch Glacier. This glacier is part of what kept the Iceman preserved for so long. He is one of the oldest mummies in the world, at about 5,300 years old and he lived around 3300 BCE. When the Iceman was first discovered, he was thought to have died of natural causes. This was thought…

Germany’s southern state of Bavaria, with its forests, fairy tale towns and picture-book castles has as its capital, Munich, a year-round destination. Gilly Pickup goes in search of Chocolate, Beer Steins and the Mad Monarch Images Gilly Pickup It's amazing how much rich, chocolate Bavarian cream tart you can eat to sustain you during a hard day’s sightseeing. Besides, we’d just climbed all the way to the top of the 15th century ‘Frauenkirche’, Gothic Church of Our Lady, the city’s famous…

Otzi The Iceman is one of the oldest known natural European mummy’s that is extremely well preserved. He was found on September 19th, 1991 by two German hikers in the Otzal Alps. He was named after the place where he was found. When he was first found, people thought he was only 500 years old until scientists found out that he was from 3300BCE, more than 5000 years old. No one really knows how old he was, but most people think he was around 40-50 years old. There are many different theories on…

he movement of the tectonic plates causing a shaking of the Earth’s surface, is an earthquake. Seismographs are instruments that can measure the size of an earthquake, from a tremor to a major event, as they are happening almost unceasingly. Some earthquakes can cause major events like broken dams, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and destruction of cities. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015) The densest areas of the map – appendix 2 – is around Indonesia and New Zealand. This is because…

expedition against the Seljuk’s because the Seljuk’s had taken the city of Ani. During Romanus Diogenes’ reconnaissance, his army could not find the Turks, and then he decided to take a Byzantine fortress in Manzikert to exchange of Hierapolis with Alp Arslan. But, this deal never happened because of Diogenes’ rush on a battle. According to Hillenbrand, the victory of Manzikert Battle brought the Turks into Asia Minor from the Middle East, and so Turks began to arrive in Europe. In this paper…

The death and way of life of the iceman is still a mystery to us historian, but we have a few possible theory's of "where he was going?", "where he was coming from?", "how he died?", "why he was in the alps along the Austro-Italian border?". The iceman was going to go fight a war between two societies, including his own, fighting for land. Neither society knew the other existed until they ventured out beyond the village borders. The iceman was living in a house made of wooden logs, mud, sticks,…

summarizes that: “the two aspects of his work, the calm and the turbulent, existed side by side, but gradually the turbulence became more and more dominant”(216). It reminds me the two storms, Calais Pier and Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, are painted in 1803 and 1812 respectively. The huge difference between those two works is not only in style: the former more inclined to use an accurate and a linear sketch to depict the idealistic ideas, and the latter uses the free…

During the fifteenth century, the emergence of the Renaissance lead to the development of distinct geographical painting styles both North and South of the Alps. Though the Alps were often viewed as a dividing line that kept the styles separate, various paintings of the time reflect an interaction of artistic influences across them. Perhaps one of the most fascinating examples of North and South interplay is Antonello da Messina’s St. Jerome in his Study, 1470’s, National Gallery, London. An…