Eurasian

successful on the battlefront. During his years of power he created a massive empire that stretched from Greece all the way to Northern India. He conquered the Persian Empire, he conquered India, and even spread a new culture called Hellenism throughout Eurasian civilizations. However, all his accomplishments completely cover up some of his twisted attributes about how he really ruled. Alexander was an alcoholic. How this affected his success? Well, he burned down a city in his moments of rage…

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 from birth they are taught to hate Americans. In 1984, there are also public executions, like when “some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were [going] to be hanged in the park that evening [...].[It] happened once a month, and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamored to be taken to see it. (Orwell, 23)” In North Korea, public…

causes are not addressed effectively and soon, global terrorism will thrive (Passe-Smith and Seligson, 2008). Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, claims that the single most definitive factor that allowed Eurasian societies to excel over their southern counterparts was their favorable position on the East-West axis, an orientation that offered climactic, ecological, and logistical advantages (Diamond, 1997). Diamond asserts that longer days were more…

“Restrictions of a Totalitarian Society” What if our government kept complete control over our society and how we live our everyday lives? What if I told you that’s how it is today? In 1949, author George Orwell wrote a dystopian science-fictional novel about how the future of our society will be ran by a government who prevents all individualism on a private land known as Oceania. The fictitious idea of “Big Brother” is always watching you allows the party to preserve idea of ignorance with…

The Americas – Period 2 consist of North America and Latin America 600-600 CE. Many changes happened whether they were political, economic, or social. Changes over time for North America included trade expansion, tribal government, and agriculture. For South America changes were in the pyramids, Mayan astronomy, and village organization. North America's change in trade expansion and continuity in village life, nomadism, polytheism, and shamanism. Latin America's change in Pyramids, ceremonial…

HSIE Geography Assessment Task 2 By Josh Borro (Mount Vesuvius, Italy) Spatial Distribution of the Disaster: In the year 74 AD, 24th of August, a volcano named Mount Vesuvius erupted and caused mass destruction in Pompeii, Italy during Midday. The eruption lasted for more than 24 hours causing parts of the nearby environment to be negatively affected. According to figure number one, Mt Vesuvius is located in the Metropolitan City of Italy. The location of this particular point is 40.822383…

In today’s society the average person spends eight to twelve hours a day sitting, therefore “the chair is an everyday object with which the human body has an intimate relationship.” The first design of a chair in a stone sculpture from the Cycladian Islands dating back to 2800-2700 B.C. and from this time on, the chair has evolved in every civilization. In this essay I will focus on the Greek klismos chair and how it tells a “social history” as the first democratic chair that everyone sat on…

When you look at a globe of the earth it is easy to think that the earth has always been this way that the continents and the ocean basins have always been where they are now and they will always be. But if you examine the globe closely you may notice something curious. Some of the continents appear as if they have been joined at one time. A good example of this are the coast lines of South America and Africa. When you compare them with just a little bit of adjustment that they match quite…

How did one simple grain change the course of everyone’s life forever? The geographical location of a civilization can decide their future. If a civilization lies in the tropics they are unable to grow wheat. An animal can only live on a continent that provides its native food source. So if a civilization cannot grow wheat they won't be able to raise animals who live off wheat. By living with an animal and consuming its products someone can be exposed to smallpox. Smallpox is a very deadly…

The Mongolian people once ruled the second largest empire in the history of humanity. The Mongol empire was famous for pioneering military tactics such as horse mounted archers, conquering much of the Eurasian supercontinent and ruling an empire whose size would not be matched until the British took to colonialism centuries later. But as with so many other great empires, people often forget the massive economy necessary to sustain such as vast empire. Millions of people living across an entire…