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able to share their products with others, while receiving products as well. The least influential trading system was the sub-Saharan because it did not provide as many influential products or cultural ideas as the other trade routes. 19) The evidence that exists to support the claim that food was an important crop that was traded during the Foundations period, is that most of the items traded, were food. Everyone in society needed food to survive, so they were traded among the countries. Food…

In West Africa, the “human experiment” lasted for hundreds of years. West Africans developed agriculture independently. This led to large, complex states. Eventually, more connections between the world zones hurt West African civilizations. The start of West African states West Africa developed agriculture on its own, like the Fertile Crescent did earlier. Starting around 3000 BCE, West Africans began to grow more food. This food was extra energy that supported more people than did hunting and…

Love in the Sahel In the Fulani culture the men are known as the cattle herders. It has been a tradition for centuries that every year the men leave home, leaving behind their girlfriends, wives and families to go on a eight month migration with their cattle. They do this for one specific reasons, and that is to feed their cattle. While on this migration they have one goal to accomplish and that is to return home with fat and healthy cattle. In the Fulani culture, the women’s parents choose who…

Are famine crises or mass starvation a product of a natural disaster or is it due to some degree of man-made interference? Global hunger can be analyzed by better understanding some of the place in the world that have been impacted heavily, which include Somalia, Malawi, Niger, Bangladesh, and South Sudan. Part B & C Amartya Sen’s work, Poverty and Famines (1981), is significant in the literature surrounding famines and its causes. The general premise of his essay is that famines do not entirely…

A semi-nomadic pastoralist culture in the middle of modern, Westernizing Africa, is an ethnic group called the Tuareg. Though diverse and living in separate communities speckled throughout Algeria, Mali, and Niger, the Tuareg are united by their shared language and proud history. They were expert traders and formidable warriors, raiding and conquering to find the best land for the livestock, prior to the European colonization of Africa. For the Tuareg, it was the French that proved too…

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Sen argued people suffered food deprivation not because of decline in national food availability, but because of decline of food entitlement. There was no decline at all in Bangladesh while in Ethiopian and Sahel countries decline was too small to encountered famine. Then what is the root of deprivation? Sen mentioned difficult point that is how the drought affected their right to food. Farmers produced less food for their consumption and had less purchasing…

Autism, imitation, the social activity of the child, educate the child, and the positive values of the child. The questionnaires were filled by fourteen males, and sixteen females. Two doctors fill the questionnaire, one of them is a manager of Al-Sahel school for special education. I asked him to fill the questionnaire to share his experience with…

The greatest challenge that humanity will face in this century is how to halt climate change in its tracks. Carbon dioxide levels are increasing, the polar ice caps are melting, the seas are rising, the weather is more extreme, and the deserts are becoming larger. Yet, population is increasing and will continue to for a long time. People are still burning fossil fuels and are, in general, eating more meat. In 2009, the per capita meat consumption in the United States was 120.20 kilograms, which…

huge rainfalls for the tropical forests, but natives chop down the forest in order to grow their food for survival. This makes the environment worse as it ruins the are for animals to live in. Also Kalahari Desert as well as the Sahara Desert and Sahel expand rapidly because desertification is an issue where areas that are not typically deserts are now transformed into deserts as this problems continues to grow every year especially now in more recent years. This problem is because of animals…