South Pacific

Peru is in the midwest of South America. Peru is bordered by Equador, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia. Peru is the third largest country in South America and is one of the 20 largest countries in the world. Peru is larger than Spain and France combined. 59% of Peru is the Amazon rainforest. However, it only contains 12% of the population. The Amazon Rainforest has hot and tropical weather with plenty of rain. 30% of Peru is Highlands, which holds 36% of the population. The Highlands have…

The Vietnam War was between North and South Vietnam, North Vietnam was communist run by leader Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam was run by anti-communist leader Ngo Dinh Diem. New Zealand was involved in the Vietnam War between 1963 and 1975. There were around 3000 New Zealanders that contributed in the war, as medical aid, combat or volunteers. The key ideas of the Vietnam War for New Zealand are communism, causes, perspectives, effects on military and significance. The Vietnam War started because…

INTRODUCTION Chile officially known as the Republic of Chile has its capital in Santiago. National Anthem – National Song of Chile (“HimnoNacional de Chile”), National Bird – Andean Condor, National Flower– Copihue, ranks 38th in the world in terms of land area and 62ndin terms of population. HISTORY Chile has a long historical background. Its natives were mainly the Incan and the Mapuche. Native American tribes moved down to present day Chile for agricultural purposes. The lands were fertile…

South America is located under Mexico. There is a total of twelve countries located in South America. The population of South America is 427,328,290. South America is also the fourth largest continent in the world. The land area of South America is about 6,878,570 square miles or 12% of the world’s land area. The most frequently languages are Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French. Over 30% of South America is covered with rainforests. Peru is located in South America. Peru is…

Ever since the Spanish settlement in the 16th century, the country has worked as a service economy. In 1821, Panama broke out from Spain and joined Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, calling themselves the Republic of Gran Colombia. When it dissolved in 1830, Panama remained part of Colombia, and in 1903 along with U.S support it became separated from Colombia. The United States and Panama signed a treaty that allowed the construction of a canal, and that also gave sovereignty to the U.S over a…

Section 1: Plate tectonics is the the theory that the outer crust of the earth is cut up into a lot of pieces called plate tectonics. The plate tectonics move around in the mantle. The mantle is the rocky middle layer of our earth it lies right above the core. The plates are very much like a shel going around the earth. The evidence of plate tectonics began as simply circumstantial evidence one example is continental drift which is the theory that all the continents used to be one giant…

before any other nation was close to discovering it. China, therefore, had scouts and cartographers researching the landscape of North and South America. Statues and walls were also found showing Chinese materials as well as sunken junks (Chinese boats). Due to the location of these ships and artifacts, China must have been all over America, from Atlantic to Pacific. The Junks basically support the fact that they were trading with the natives. Chinese artifacts have been found all over the…

Lumber Co. set up by Thomas Mitchell in 1898 (later this would become in the 1920s the Mitchell-McDonald Lumber Co.). The mill was located west of the CPR railway, on the now Blackstone-Crane Road, producing railway ties and shims from wood obtained south of their mill, from Second and Third Lakes all the way down to Blackstone and…

What the Native American Governments might have become if the Europeans never interfered. In the 1400’s the Aztecs started to quickly expand and making the conquered vassals. However, the Spanish would quickly conquer them using more advanced weapons, and the diseases brought over from Europe would plague the natives destroying society so. So then, what would’ve happened, if Europeans never sailed across the Atlantic or never existed? It is reasonable to assume that given time they might have…

Apart from the domestic factors, what are the external causes for the Korean War? → First, the U.S. withdrew its troops from South Korea by the end of June 1949. South Korean President Syngman Rhee insisted on the necessity of the U.S. troops in Korea as a deterrent to aggression and consequent civil war. However, the Truman administration made a decision of withdrawal and it was based on the conclusion…