Siberia

naturally occurring but a large portion of atmospheric BC is the anthropogenic and transported to Alert by circulation systems which bring BC along with other aerosols from many other locations. Alert is primarily influenced by BC emissions from Siberia/ Europe during late winter and spring and regional sources in the summer (Sharma, Andrews, Barrie, Ogren, & Lavoué, 2006). These circulation patterns are created as wind vectors travel along mostly persistent pressure centres. The Arctic as a…

European Industrial Revolution in the North As the Industrial Revolution began to gain some momentum during the 1780’s, it would bring a myriad amount of changes to Europe. The Industrial Revolution is known as a transition to new manufacturing processes, which include the development of new technological advances. Hand tools were being replaced and a transition of new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes would occur. Not only did this economic transformation bring along a…

The most influential person in European history was a man who only ruled his country for eleven years. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, accomplished more in these eleven years than many men had in their entire lives. Khrushchev had a huge impact on history during the Cold War era, and many things might be different today if he had never been in a leadership role. The innovations that were made in the USSR under his command, were innovations that would send the…

Throughout history, the world economy faced severe ups and downs, taking a tumble in no time; Stock markets were one of the major causes a country’s economy collapsed, but there is no comparison to how severe the Great Depression impacted the world. The Great Depression was a major downfall in the world economy, starting off from the United States, which inevitably spread all over the world during the 1930’s. This was a period of time which caused chaos, demanding world leaders to contemplate…

The History of Smallpox Smallpox once covered the globe. In Europe alone, 400,000 people a year use to die from it. It used to be extremely infectious. Smallpox started with little brown dots on your skin called macules. After a while each little dot raised up into a bump called a papule. Three or four days later, each papule became a blister called a pustule, a hard round bead under the skin. The patient’s whole body was covered in these, but especially his face, hands and feet. Sometimes…

-The aftermath of the Cold War was a recent and a very important period of time in history for the development of the countries. In this period of time the political relationships of the countries in the world were not having their best confidence moment at all. A lot of spying was going on during those years. The two biggest powers( U.S.A and the Soviet Union) were having that information battle that we cannot know a lot more about it. The aftermath of this war determined the stability…

Prisoners of Geography: Western Europe and Russia Although technology is increasingly advancing and shaping the way our world works, the bottom line for the human geography of a region is its physical geography. Prisoners of Geography, a book written by Tim Marshall, takes this idea and further applies it to the various regions of the world. The book discusses the diverse environmental features in the world’s regions and their impacts, which can both resemble and differ from impacts in other…

The Man who was the Great Chinggis Khan Throughout history there have been many leaders deemed great while others are deemed as cruel. It is their affects on history that determines if they are either a great ruler or a tragedy. With the rise and fall of many leaders it is they their accomplishments and how they had ruled that determines their worth. In the 13th century a leader had emerged, to some he was Great whereas for others he was a nightmare. This man was Chinggis Khan, or known as…

On July 16, 1918, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and his five children, along with his loyal servants, descended downstairs and gathered together for a family photo shoot. However, the family photoshoot turned out to be a deceptive trick created by a communist leader, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik troops to lure the royal Russian family, the Romanovs, out of hiding and to end Russia’s monarchical rule. Once the Romanovs and their servants made themselves known…

Catherine II and the Serf Question According to the historian Aleksandr Lappo-Danilevskii, along with Catherine II's self-proclaimed, Enlightened reason, it would seem likely that the political coup that placed her on the throne would improve conditions for the lower classes of society. This is because in her writings prior to accession she had stated multiple times her dissapproval of the oppression of the nobilty over the serfs and a desire for emancipation, and after her accession she had…