Continents

Since the discovery of Latin America by Columbus in 1492, the continent was colonized, conquered and torn apart for its resources. The native people were killed by the thousands, treated like animals and used for labor. The turn of the nineteenth century saw a wave of enlightenment thinkers throughout Europe and reaching the Americas, that disagreed with these tactics and pushed for sovereign states, which led to much of Latin America rebelling and escaping colonial rule. This paper will argue…

generation. Gender Gender is known as male and female typically referred with social and cultural traits rather than biological. History of Sub-Continent Sub-continent history started from Indus Valley civilization one of the oldest and first civilization of the Sub-continent. In the 13th century Muslims started ruling in the North part of the Indian Sub-Continent. In the 16th century Mughals role started, they rule on most of the part of the India. After their decline in the 18th century…

Africa is a continent cloaked in ambiguity. Outsiders have viewed it with disdain in the past mostly due to a lack of a fundamental understanding of the continent and its people. Once seen as a backwards place that couldn’t get things right or every truly be civilized due to inferior genetics. In the next few paragraphs I would like to discuss this concept and reasons it could be true and more importantly why it is not true. Vast portions of this continent were truly a dark isolated place…

Glimpsing Into The Past If Columbus didn’t find America, who did? Obviously, Columbus wasn’t the first person to find the American continent-Native Americans had been living on it for hundreds of years prior-but Columbus wasn’t the first explorer. He may have all the credit, but Vikings stepped foot in the Americas centuries before him. America was discovered by Vikings before Columbus, and early Native Americans before the Vikings; it's a confusing circle but broken down into smaller parts it…

developed around 1912 by Alfred Wegener. Wegener introduced the fact that all of today’s continents were once a large supercontinent (Pangea) and how they slowly drifted to their present positions. This idea was developed by simple observations such as the fact that the African and South-American coast lines fit together like pieces of a puzzle and that fossils and similar sedimentary rocks are found on different continents. Unfortunately his theory didn’t attract much attention until the 50’s.…

1. After watching all seven parts of the documentary "The Real Eve", please describe the route(s) that the earliest humans took out of Africa and how humans eventually arrived on several continents, as explained in the documentary. Please include a minimum of SIX specific countries, bodies of water, continents, OR other locations referred to in the video--SIX locations total. There are two possible routes that the earliest humans took out of Africa. One was North of the Red Sea across the Sues…

Pangea! It was the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago. According to Alfred Wegener’s theory, long before us humans existed all of the continents used to be one large landmass. Who is Alfred Wegener you might ask? Alfred Wegener was a German polar researcher, geophysicist, and meteorologist born in Berlin on November 1, 1880. I chose to research about Alfred Wegener’s life and his struggles because we are currently focusing on the continental drift theory in science class. He…

were not present, which did not allow for great advancements to society. Upon the arrival of Columbus, the prominent civilizations of the continent were no longer those of the indigenous people, but instead those of the technologically advanced settlers, who utilized domesticated animals, advanced agriculture and technologies to transform life on the continent to one of large cities that we see today. The arrival of Columbus was a turning point in American history because it allowed for the…

all the continents of the world. Several aspects of climate have been affected. For instance, in the temperate zones, the summers are warmer and more humid. Droughts are more frequent, particularly in Africa. Rainfall and snowfall are more intense and, in some cases, quite destructive. Snow (or ice) cover on mountaintops is diminishing compared what was there in 1950. There is scientific evidence showing that ice in the polar zones is melting at a faster rate. Below is a general…

Radiometric dating of rocks is a technique that can predict the age of rocks. When geologists used it to compare the age of ocean floor and its overlaying sediments with those at the centers of continents, to their surprise, they found that ocean floor appeared to be much younger than the continents. This in turn generated interest and curiosity to the deep-ocean floor. Echo sounder was used to reveal complex profiles of the deep-ocean floors. The finding included ocean floor sediment to be…