North Africa

Mali slightly less than twice size of Texas is a landlocked countries that shares boarders with seven countries round it. It was boarded by Algeria in the North, Mauritania and Senegal in West, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the South and Niger and Burkina Faso in the East. Mali is considered as one of the biggest country in West Africa and ranking at 24th largest country in the world. The geographical areas of Mali are estimated around 478,839 square miles. Mali official’s name is the Republic of…

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Ethiopia Dossier Ethiopia’s Political History From AD 100, the city of Axum, north of Ethiopia, rose to power. The Aksumite kingdom became the most powerful in the region; their empire ran from the Nile River across the Red Sea. In the fourth century AD, a king named Ezana came to power and made Christianity the official religion. From AD 750, the rule of Aksum began to decrease as Arab traders spread across Africa, cutting off the city’s trading courses. In the 1500s, divisions between…

prolonged standing. In Libya the Prime Minister has removed any negative independent broadcasting of information or print media, which is similar in Turkmenistan, where "cross censorship" has been introduced therefore creating an atmosphere of fear and in North Korea there is no independent journalists or broadcasting information available. Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya from 1942-2011 this reign was carried out in a cruel and strange manner. Gaddafi’s reign began with the removal…

What similarities and difference existed? The indigenous peoples of what is now the United States were split into countess tribes, practiced a variety of religions and traditions, and developed different ways of life in different environments across North America. Some native tribes were nomadic hunter-gatherers, migrating based on seasonal changes, while others lived in settled communities with larger populations. Settled tribes had the advantage of larger food surpluses due to developed…

In 1312 Musa became emperor following the death of the previous ruler of Mali, Abu-Bakr II. Mali was an empire in West Africa that lasted from 1230 to 1600 and under Mansa Musa’s rule it became the largest and richest area of Africa. As Ruler of Mali he had captured the kingdom of Songhai and made its most major city, Timbuktu, a very vital and important trading center in the North African area. Mansa Musa was a very wealthy ruler. During his rule he has been shown to have had a fortune of 400…

Cultural Awareness of Somalia Somalia's terrain comprises principally of highlands, plains, and plateaus. The North of Somalia is an oceanic semi-desert plain parallel of the Gulf of Aden Coast. The plain ascents from the gulf coast to the steep northward-confronting bluffs of the dissected highlands. The majority of the nation is extremely flat apart from the mountainous coastal zone in the north and a few purported stream valleys. The South has broken mountain landscape, shallow level…

any country. All these factors have both direct and indirect roles in the development of a country's’ culture. Senegal once was part of the West African Empire of Ghana, Tekur, and Mali. The nation takes its name from the river that runs along its north-east borders, making the frontier with Mauritania and Mali. A poetic saying from the Wolof people states that the name derives from the local term Sunugal, meaning "our dugout canoe" (everyone is in the same boat). The Republic of Senegal…

retreat backwards as the North had already taken control of the capital of South Korea until General MacArthur decided to take defense at a close city and completely turn around the beginning of the war by slaying almost 40,000 North Korean troops. After World War II the United States and Soviet Union took control of the Korean Peninsula after taking it from Japan. The US had the Republic of Korea in the south and the Soviet Union had the Democratic People's Republic in the north.…

in the past such as colonialism, it is also different. Imperialism wants political or economic control over regions while in colonialism one nation controls over the other. For example the settlement of North America. An example of imperialism is the “scramble for Africa”. The “scramble for Africa” was part of the many things that the imperialism…