Siberia

only for pillaging and raping by contemporary depictions. The Mongol Empire dominated over 33 million square kilometers throughout Eurasia that stretched from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Black and Baltic Seas in the East, and the plains of Siberia in the North to the Himalayas in the South. The Mongol way of life and societal expansion hinged on the constant need to conquer new lands and raid them for their resources. Despite their negative image and military tactics, first hand…

Imagine this, you are a Chinese peasant living in the 1200s minding your own business farming; then suddenly, flaming arrows are fly out of nowhere, the sound of war horns roar in the distance and mounted warriors are riding around slaughtering your fellow townspeople. Who are these evil people? They are the Mongols! Not only will they kill your townspeople, but also will end up killing millions of people across Eurasia and create the largest land empire in history. One may think that this is…

of sharks because sharks do not leave behind bones to study, which makes it extremely difficult for researchers to determine much about these prehistoric sharks. The earliest sharks date back to 420 million years ago, based off of scales found in Siberia. Not much is known about sharks from this time period. Yet, Martin states, “Fortunately, the shark fossil record becomes richer and more varied from the Devonian Period onward”. The earliest evidence of sharks from the Devonian Period dates back…

Even at the brink of starvation, the GULAG labor camps forced over a million people to do hard labor in extreme conditions of Siberia. In the fictional novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the author Alexander Solzhenitsyn depicts of the conditions prisoners had to face in the GULAG labor camp system. Based on the experience of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, the author portrays a typical day of a prisoner while revealing the effects of the inhuman conditions have and how the prisoners learn…

mammals were indigenous to Asia and North America, but since all the continents had been joined together, they migrated to land that is now Australia. The Permian mass extinction happened around the same time that enormous volcanic eruptions in Siberia had been going on. Beides excessive amounts of lava and ash being dispersed, the eruptions might have produced enough carbon dioxide to raise the temperature of the globe by 6℃. This rise in temperature slowed the mixing of ocean water, which…

The Bolsheviks party had a leader by the name Vladimir Lenin. The majority of the Bolsheviks were Russians. The wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party is this led by Lenin and the Bolsheviks are a member of this party. This party became the dominant political power after it seized control of the government in Russia. At the party’s second congress the Russian Social-Democratic workers’ party originated. Lenin's followers pushed for a restricted membership to professional…

butter. The Russians had launched the first satellite into orbit around the world and the U.S. clapped back by creating NASA.NASA put the United States back on top from there on out. From this lesson, I learned that Eisenhower sent a plane over to Siberia to spy on them and lied about it when Khrushchev…

It changes the geography of colder regions. Frozen regions like Siberia, the Arctic, and the Antarctic can experience milder climates and more vegetation as climate change melts the ice. List of Cons of the Global Warming Worst Case Scenario 1. It damages the environment. As mentioned in the introduction, natural…

Shepherd was registered as a charitable organisation in Oregon. The first voyage to protect and publicise the illegal hunting of grey whales was launched in May 1981. By mid 1981, the ship documented illegal Soviet whaling activities off the coast of Siberia. On return to the United States, the evidence was turned over to Congress. In early 1982, Sea Shepherd launched their second campaign to Iki Island in Japan to negotiate with Japanese fisherman over the slaughter of dolphins. Sea Shepherd…

in his room and tries to convince him that confession and repentance are the answers to all of his problems (Dostoevsky 486). However, this event does not directly lead him to confession and though Raskolnikov eventually confesses and is sent to Siberia to serve his punishment, it probably was not because of Dunya’s interference, or at least, not her interference alone. Unquestionably, his love, Sonya, was the largest motivation behind his moving confessional, as is clear in one of the closing…