Eurasia

and hence, peaceful. "As though to harmonise with the general mood, the rocket bombs had been killing large numbers of people than usual" (Orwell 156). By this quote the reader can infer that the Party is actually behind the bombings rather than Eurasia. The Party would inflict such suffering on its own people for the sake of creating fear and anxiety which eventually leads to anger, hatred and violence against a perceived…

'1984' forms the title for a 1949 novel by George Orwell. The novel, set in the province of Oceania depicts dystopia in theme and is packed witch culturally significant predictive lessons to the current and future generation. Dystopias pose the worst-case scenarios to everyday life, therefore, criticizing current trends, societal norms, and political systems. '1984' is set in a futuristic environment. '1984' depicts a world with endless war, vigilant surveillance, and opportunistic political…

The Formation of Australia Although Australia has the least surface area compared to other continents, it does have a long geological history. Australia is formed by many geological elements resulting in the present-day Australia. Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents shifting (Appearing to be 'drifting') on Earth's surface. There have been many supercontinents, throughout history, which had existed on Earth's surface for millions of years. Supercontinents are a cluster…

Early Iron Age, the territory of the present-day Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia. They appear in ancient historical sources as remarkably vivid nomadic groups who embraced a powerful domination over neighbouring populations in Early Iron Age Eurasia. Even though the main driving force of this supremacy were cultural factors they had to differ from other human groups also in terms of biological and demographic structures (e.g. health status, mortality and life expectancy). The aim of the…

The African Slave Trade brought Africans from all over their native land to the Caribbean, to the Americas, and to Eurasia. This map illustrates the sheer immensity of slave transport to South America, yet also displays the few slaves that were brought to Europe and Asia. This horrible trade allowed for millions of liters of rumbullion, a spirit that is now known as rum, to be spread throughout the world, from Barbados, where this unique spirit was created, to English ships, to the colonies.…

George Orwell’s 1984, is a novel with themes that strongly ties in with what was the current events of the 20th century, most predominantly during and immediately after the Second World War. 1984 tells the story of Winston Smith, a middle aged man who lives in Airstrip One (a province of the superpower “Oceania”), who slowly falls into a state of “revolutionary ideas” and dreaming of a rebellion against the party. Winston meets Julia, a young woman with whom he shares his many ideas to…

ideas. In Document A it states “From China:” and it lists many goods, but then it also states …”Confucianism”. The Chinese would trade a book or pages on the subject of Confucianism.The document of Confucianism kept changing many civilizations in Eurasia. They traded this idea in document over the silk road which changed how it traded and how it spread. The Chinese could hand over the idea of Confucianism and then that civilization could sell that idea and so on and so forth.How the trade of…

The Dystopian novel 1984 (By George Orwell) is about a man named Winston, and his physical and psychological struggles with the dictating rulers of his society called The Party. Unlike our society The Party eliminates all opinions and emotions. Our society could never be like The Party, because people at this point in time are too opinionated and become too offended over the smallest things. Winston’s story begins with the purchase of an illegal book from an antique shop. In this diary he…

Papermaking was transferred to the west by a Chinese prisoner. So, yeah… pretty much paper making… That’s why its here. 2. The Mongols vs. Afro-Eurasia We’ve already mentioned the Mongols as big-deal world power in this era, but what they’re getting at here is that the Pax Mongolica or Mongol peace allowed for unprecedented world trade and the spread of many East Asian technologies to the West…

roll — just because it might not substantially effect things now, doesn’t mean it didn’t have a hand in influencing how things came to be. Acemoglu and Robinson understand that Diamond is making an argument for why eurasia was where growth would arise — the questions of where within eurasia and when are not addressed. But instead of explaining how Acemoglu and Robinson’s argument builds on Diamond’s argument, they take five pages to explain how Guns, Germs, and Steel isn’t valid because it…