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    Tim Marshall’s main focus in writing the book, “Prisoners of Geography” is to introduce the concept of geopolitics. He explains how the location and certain geographical features affect politics, especially international relationships. To further elaborate on this topic he includes historical examples to show how the geography affects trade, conflict, and a countries’ economy. Seeing that there are 195 countries in the world and over 4,000 religions, conflict is bound to break out sometime.…

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    that was unattainable using different sorts of shade. Since oil paints had landed in Italy, Leonardo could use them to incredible preferred standpoint to make the painting, one of the immense early artful culminations using this media in the Italian landmass. As for Madonna, the artistic creation was painted close to the finish of the medieval period, which is the reason it highlights components of the Byzantine and Gothic styles. At the time, religious subjects were very basic among artists…

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    Continental Drift Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. It was made of many continents that we know today. It broke up a long time ago because of something called Continental Drift. Continental drift is what it is called when the tectonic plates move around and rearrange and reshape the continents. Gondwana was made up of 5 main pieces; Africa, South America, Australia, India, and Antarctica. Gondwana existed roughly 300-180 million…

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    Genghis Khan, Temüjin, is debatably the most influential and fierce military leader in history. Genghis Khan or universal ruler conquered all of Asia and much of Europe or one fourth of the world 's landmass in under a thirty year period the same landmass as rome only it took them four hundred years. He is also responsible for the deaths of an estimated almost 40 million people(Crash Course Mongols). For such a powerful leader the question is how could he possibly conquered this much land and…

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    two major foreign events that demonstrates how the United States policy was defensive are the Louisiana Purchase and the French Revolution. The Louisiana was a very important purchase with the growth ofthe United States.The purchase doubled the landmass, but there was more involved in the purchase. The Pinckney treaty had been allowing the United States to use the Mississippi River for trade.This treaty had been made with Spain, but then Spain signed the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso with…

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    ways, which were all through historical roots about the world. He started with Pangaea, which refers to how the earth exists 200 million years ago when the entire continents were one landmass and when dinosaurs were roaming about. About 180 million years ago, the crust of the earth broke up, divided into multiple landmass, moving away from each other. The dividing of the earth led to mammals succeeding against the dinosaurs and other animals to be at different parts of the world.…

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    The ancient Greek world was a thriving metropolis of language, education, literature and philosophy at the beginning of Christianity and was significant factor for the early disciples. The first written languages were found on mud tablets and situated in Minoan Knossos Palace on the island of Crete. This is important to note, because observation is noted in that the Minoans and Mycenaean’s had an impact on the Greek language. The mud tablets found in the Knossos Palace had language consisting of…

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    and anthropogenic effects are causes of the changes in our climate. Some natural causes are the effects of plate tectonics, volcanoes, the earth’s tilt, and ocean currents. Plate tectonics, where countries and “continents were all part of one large landmass” (Causes of climate change. Retrieved November 23, 2015 ) in the past, at some point in time moved into different positions and drift apart, caused continents around the earth to experience different climate conditions than they used to…

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    Landon McCall World History Honey 8 October 2015 2. Egypt was provided with one of the most significant rivers of all time, the Nile. The Nile had extremely fertile banks growing food and other crops. One of the most significant features of the Nile was the fact that it had an annual flood which would create fertile soil being brought to the top. This was very important to the Egyptian farmers of the region. The Nile split Egypt into two sections the upper and the lower. The upper was good soil…

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    fighting against non-Muslims, but rather "heavenly war" was now and again pursued by Muslims whose translation of the Koran permitted them such scope. Jihad was specifically in charge of a portion of the early successes of Islam outside of the Arabian landmass. The Islamic cause was additionally helped by political changes happening outside of Arabia. The Muslim triumphs in the Near East can be mostly represented by the long arrangement of wars between the Byzantine and Persian domains. Prior…

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