Continent

continental drift is proposed by German scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912. A theory is about how earth’s content change over time. The German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed theory based on how the way the continents fit together. In his theory, around 200 million years ago earth was one big continent called…

From India to Africa! Africa to India! India to America! Moving, Moving and Moving. Ever since I was a young girl, I have been moving from continent to continent with my family and it became an obstacle for me because it interfered with my education. My parents are always blamed for my education interruption, but they moved from continents to continents to secure our future and give us a better life; they don’t want us to suffer what they had to suffer from and they wanted to fulfill all our…

given the variations within the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, regarding four out of each 5 females that traversed the Atlantic were from continent. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean, once a formidable barrier that prevented regular interaction between those peoples inhabiting the four continents it touched, became a billboard road…

this world divided and could cause civilization to clash. The world is divided into six continents and nine civilizations with unique ethnic characteristics, differences of opinion and last dominance of territories. The world is divided into six continents and nine civilizations with unique ethnic characteristics. Those six continents are: American, African, European, Asiatic, Australian and Antarctic continent. Samuel Huntington a political scientist, defined a civilization as the largest…

Zuan Chiabotto a venetian navigator and adventurer claims that He reached the American mainland in 1498, a year before Columbus reached the same continent. Alwyn Ruddock, an English scholar, found a letter sent by a British trader named John Day to Columbus. The letter explained that the North American continent was discovered by a sailor from the port of Bristol in 1470. Meanwhile Scandinavian scholars also considered that vikings had sailed to the coast of North America before British and…

the Continent has ben ravaged through for these materials it still stands today as having the most resources. Actually Africa is considered the top richest continents of today standards, having the most natural resources, and also some of the most beautiful sights on can only dream of. Sadly what holds the country back from making the inhabitants rich is their lack of leadership and empowerment. If colonization never ruined these factors of Africa the people could be as rich as the continent is,…

The Chesapeake Bay Area continent, is known for having “fresh water, fertile soil, and economical transportation, since that, agriculture, fishing, and hunting” (marinersmuseum.org) is very common. This continent can also be called an “estuary, which is a fresh water and salt water mixed body of water, in fact, it is the largest estuary in the United States” (chesapeakebay.net). Within this continent “Virginia and Maryland make it up and they worship God, in other words their religion is…

From the creation of ‘The Dark Continent’ in which Africa and Africans were presented as the complete opposite to Europe and Europeans. In the 17th century and onwards, discussions over slavery, colonialism and racism contributed to the negative accounts of Africa in Western media and discourse…

is located south of North Africa and in the middle of the south Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Being such a large continent, it was picked to pieces territorially by early colonization’s from large countries in Europe. With colonization completely withdrawing from the continent, it lays divided and has many challenges to overcome becoming a functioning continent. Few countries in that continent have normalized the transition from a colony into a peaceful independent country. With corruption always…

It is little more than one hundred years since humans first set foot on Antarctica and even today few people have visited the frozen and hostile southern continent. Although nine countries have territorial claims on the continent, several of them overlapping, these political disagreements were suspended in The Antarctic Treaty of 1959. In the Treaty (covering all areas south of 60 degrees South Latitude), it was agreed that Antarctica should be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and that…