Eurasia

Jared Diamond is a professor at UCLA the has traveled the earth in search of the answer to his question , why some parts of the world thrive and why some a so very poor. So in his journey across the earth Jared's firs stop is in New Guinea where he is asked by a local, Yali “Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little. Jared finds that New Guinea is one of the few countries that still has a hunting and gathering type civilization to survive, but people have been…

While the Europeans did not head out in search of the unknown Americas, the continent emerged in front of them offering a multitude of new things which the peoples of the Eastern continent had never seen previously. Thus, the Europeans were able to transform earlier patterns of commerce by doing what no other country had done: traveling across the Atlantic Ocean and moving completely new product back and forth across the continents. They were also able to change patterns of commerce by creating…

Lesser crops included sweet potato, papaya, pineapple, tomato, avocado, guava, peanuts, chili peppers, and cacao. The potato, possibly the most important new food, had a strong effect in improving the food supply and promoting the population growth in Eurasia because it provided a cheap source of food. Because of the discovery of the New World, the world’s diets were able to be improved along with the health of people. Although some believe that Christopher Columbus discovering the New World…

where everyone becomes mad for two minutes and then goes back to normal. They are also at war with Eurasia and Eastasia, switching at times. “The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. (Orwell, 34)” This quote, though from 1984, perfectly describes both the situation of North Korea with America, and Oceania with Eurasia and Eastasia in 1984. In North Korea, people aren’t allowed to learn English because…

Dear O'Brien, Today, the purpose of this letter is to question you, just like what you have done to all your victims. However, I am merely asking you, not forcing you to answer by asserting “… power over another [man]”. Even if I did have the power, I would not do so, because I am human whereas you are an insane old creature with no kindness for others. Speaking of power, we have reached the purpose of my letter, power. It is not about acquiring power nor about power itself. We all know the…

The corruption of government is another factor of symbolism. The Ministry of Truth lied about the wars between Oceania and Eurasia and Norsefire created the virus to gain more supporters. These abundance of symbols throughout these novels result in similar themes. The theme of both novels is being rebellious and living in a totalitarianism government. Both, Winston and V go…

Airstrip One in England was a country that was at war with other continents like Eurasia. The setting is in the city of York, where Winston lived. Big Brother was in control of all the people in the city and he used totalitarianism in order to keep the “peace.” Big Brother was an image that created the illusion of totalitarianism. Its…

long-distance trade networks that allowed for an improved transportation of technology and goods, and allowed for the spread of new beliefs. An invention that was spread due to trade routes created by the mongols was gunpowder, that spread throughout Eurasia. The new routes increased trade, provided a new and more reliable protection for merchants, and a general peace.However, a downfall of the new networks was the spread of the bubonic plague, mainly from the Mongols. China and Russia bother…

of hominids into Western Asia resulted into their mobility at even greater distance into southeast Asia (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 212). Therefore, detecting the earliest sites in the Near East that identify the pathway of Homo erectus inhabitants into Eurasia is significant (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 212). With that being said, these sites…

alive today in the forms of inventions such as paper, porcelain, and silk and in its philosophical beliefs. Two-thousand years ago, up to one-half of the population of man was contained within either the Roman empire, in western Eurasia, and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (Scheidel, 2008). This is quite impressive because at no…