Steppe

1. After watching all seven parts of the documentary "The Real Eve", please describe the route(s) that the earliest humans took out of Africa and how humans eventually arrived on several continents, as explained in the documentary. Please include a minimum of SIX specific countries, bodies of water, continents, OR other locations referred to in the video--SIX locations total. There are two possible routes that the earliest humans took out of Africa. One was North of the Red Sea across the Sues…

The Columbia River, at 1,243 miles long, is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest and is the fourth-largest river in the United States. Originating from the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, it ends in the Pacific Ocean in Oregon, with the largest flow of any river draining into the Pacific. High flow occurs in the late spring and early summer due to snow melt upstream, with low flow being in autumn and winter, causing major water shortages at the hydroelectric plants along the…

Zoroastrianism is a religion that influenced the development of Christianity and Manichaeism. It believes in the role of individuals determining their own fate and emphasizes the duality of good and evil. Early Aryan influences on Persian religious traditions. Zarathustra (late 7th-early 6th centuries BCE) is the founder of Zoroastrianism. He believes that Ahura Mazda had chosen him to be a prophet. In the sixth century BCE, Zoroastrianism attracted Persian aristocrats and ruling elites. It also…

herds, northern and central, together there is roughly 4600 individuals that are allowed to roam almost freely over the landscape of the Park and a few areas near Montana. They also exhibit wild behavior like their ancient ancestors; known as the Steppe Bison. The bison converge during the breeding season to compete for mates, as well as migration that result in the use of new habitat areas. These behaviors have enabled the successful restoration of a population that was on the brink of…

Missouri’s Geology Missouri is home to a wide variety of geological history as well as treasure which can be found throughout the state. From its wonderful variety of caves to the rock columns in the state parks of the south as well as the mines. The soil is as rich in diversity as the plant and animal life, from the north to the south as well as the east to the west. It can be dated back as far as before there was life on this planet and at one time even had an ocean over it. It is truly…

of Persian mythology goes back to 1000 to 1500 B. C., and the flow of motifs, myths and heroes is affected through various settlements of the migrating people from Central Asia and southern Russia ( “Myths Encyclopedia”, par.2). Roving through the steppes located at north of Caspian Sea and black Sea, Indo-Europeans, who rooted back to Bronze-age era, constituted the majority of migrating people to Iran, Turkey and Northern India (McCoy, par.2). At the time, the Indo-European peoples who settled…

Summer Reading Essay Two books that I read during the summer are Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World and All Quiet on the Western Front. They both have to deal with times of war, but Genghis Khan was about how they built an empire instead of Western Fronts World War 1’s battles. Although they both mainly talked about warfare, they also talked about the lifestyles of the main characters. I will compare each book, and also talk about each book. Genghis Khan and the Making of the…

In Southwest Asia, there is a large band of fertile land called the Fertile Crescent. It curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Within the Fertile Crescent are two rivers: the Tigris and Euphrates. Both these rivers begin in present day Turkey and flow south through Iraq to the Persian Gulf. The land between these two rivers is called Mesopotamia, which in Greek literally means “between the rivers.” The conditions in this land helped bring about the rise of the world’s first…

Herbert Mason’s translation of Gilgamesh presents a very unique dynamic in the central relationship of the epic between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Scholars have come to the understanding that that the relationship portrayed in this version is different from that found in earlier translations of the text, but Mason’s portrayal seems to represent the most honest image of the situation. Gilgamesh and Enkidu cannot fully be equals because Gilgamesh is seen first as a god-king and Enkidu is identified as…

people were injured. Another example of what the consequences were waiting for after an explosion at the Semipalatinsk test site. It all began August 29, 1949, when the Soviet Union first tested its nuclear weapons with a capacity of 22 kilotons of steppe North-Eastern Kazakhstan. Power tested nuclear warheads to 2,500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. After testing atomic bombs for the last 10 years the birth rate fell by 35%, 15-18% of Kazakhstan families suffer…