Siberia

Columbus. For most of human history, archaeologists have found modern humans originating from Africa about 400,000 years ago (Of The People, 4). During the last ice age, glaciers expanded that the sea level dropped and created a land bridge between Siberia in Asia and Alaska in America. Many humans that were hunting big game traveled along the new bridge into America. This was the very beginning to a whole new world of trading, exploration and colonizing. Between 1000 and 1650 multiple events…

Beringia Theory, the Maritime Theory, the South Pacific Atlantic theory, and the Solutrean Theory. According to the Smithsonian Institution’s website,The Beringia Theory is the theory that people traveled across a land bridge between Siberia and what is now known as Alaska by foot about 11,500 years ago. The video Ice Age Discoveries: New Evidence states that these people were hunters. This video and the The New York Times claimed that these people were Clovis people. The land…

In Siberia,it many believed that there was a god named Tuli. Tuli had a giant sled driven by dogs that the Earth was on. The dogs would scratch at the fleas and the shaking would then jostle the sled with the earth. In Norse mythology, the source of earthquakes…

Crime is universally regularly compensated with punishment but often, not fulfilled with justice. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is a primary example of one who receives a light punishment as a surprise to our own expectations, for the act of two brutal murders. However, Dostoevsky might have intended to explain his reasoning of moral penance with the idea that every sin is ultimately faced with punishment, whether physical or psychological. Raskolnikov’s mere…

Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich depicts a typical day in the life of a seemingly average poor man entrapped for crimes he did not commit being worked to death in the gulag. In a system designed to kill and forget, Shukhov, the protagonist, manages to live and survive. One Day presents Shukhov in binary form throughout One Day, as a hidden holy fool whom we learn much from and a latter Shukhov which questions the first. Shukhov teaches through lessons of gratitude and…

of Russia, he was able to defeat the Kazan army. When Ivan was able to defeat the Kazan, he decides to commission the construction of a Catholic church called St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. Ivan was also able to expand the Russian Empire to Siberia. Siberia was reached in the natural resources like mountains and trees, and it was providing a vast natural resource that was not found in Russia…

Before World War II began in 1938 Hitler and the Nazi party’s rise to power came with persecutions before the war even began, especially against the Jewish population with the Nuremburg Laws that were established in November of 1935.Hitler was not the only one persecuting those within their own country before the war, Stalin was also persecuting Soviet Ukrainians in the 1930s with a large spread famine across the Ukrainian farmland. Saul Friedländer’s book, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1…

The painting that I decided to write about is one of the most popular paintings in the museum and its called “The Russian Bride’s Attire”. The Russian bride 's attire history is one of the most paintings I have ever seen in my life. The dimension of this painting is 110 x 147 inches. It was made by a very famous Russian painter named Konstantin Makovsky in 1887 and it was completed in Russia. Konstantin Makovsky was born on june 20th in moscow. In 1851 Makovsky got into Moscow school of…

cannabis (inherited the name marijuana from Mexico) was cultivated. Cannabis Sativa is considered humanity’s oldest cultivated crop with a long history. These plants are believed to have emerged in Central Asia in the regions of Mongolia and southern Siberia. Around 7000 B.C. hemp was used to make rope and woven fabrics in Central and South Asia. The Chinese were also using the hemp plant as clothing, paper, and bowstrings. The first recorded use of cannabis as a medicinal drug was in 2737…

12. James Cook James Cook, a captain of the English Royal Navy and fellow seaman, disproved the theory about the “Southern Continent” when he led the first expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle. Throughout his expeditions, Cook created numerous charts of unexplored islands in the Pacific Ocean. On his third voyage south he discovered many islands, including Hawaii. Cook’s discoveries and numerous charts became invaluable to the future English explorers. 13. Vitus Bering The Danish explorer…