climate of today. Those evidences lead him to publish Wegenerfs theory of gcontinental drafth in 1915. In the book The Origin of Continents and Oceans‚ he wrote about 300 million years ago‚ continents were a single mass‚ Pangaea‚ which had split and lifted‚ and the pieces had been moving since then. However‚ his theory was lack of explanation of how the continents move. He explained it that it was through the earthfs crust and centrifugal and tidal forces that move the pieces. But as opponents
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When the 19th Century arrived‚ Europeans forced themselves into Central and West Africa. The explorers ended up fully attacking and conquering Africa by the 1880s. This caused colonies to become poor and very uneducated. European imperialism left colonies lacking school‚ homes‚ and hospitals all for certain reasons. The main reason imperialism was done by Europe was from the want for power‚ resources‚ competition‚ and trade all for and over Africa. The primary reason was due to the European craving
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the earth cooled‚ water formed and the continents formed. He made its so life would develop‚ culminating in those creature made in His own image‚ mankind. But soon after the emergence of mankind‚ strife and evil emerged. God send prophets who informed of how God wanted them to live but the prophets were either shunned or put to death. Finally‚ God sent his only Son but mankind killed his Son. entral Europe has some of the oldest cities on the continent. It includes the countries of Germany
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become at a certain point in time‚ has a great influence on understanding all aspects of living things‚ either in the past‚ present‚ or future. The study of Plate tectonics is accredited to most of the creations of Mountain Ranges‚ the drifting of continents‚ earthquakes‚ and volcanic activity. Plate tectonics and mountains also play a big part in the geological features of our planet or any planet for that matter. Geophysics‚ which studies the physics of the Earth‚ has led to many important findings
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Antarctica is a remote continent‚ the fifth largest of the Earth’s seven continents. It is considered the as the largest desert in the world due to the very little precipitation there‚ it can get up to 8 inches per year generally around the coast and less and less as you get towards inland. The southernmost‚ coldest‚ windiest‚ highest‚ most remote‚ and most recently discovered continent‚ it surrounds the South Pole‚ the point at the southern end of the Earth’s axis. Almost completely covered by ice
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CBSE Class 9 - Geography - CH1 - INDIA – SIZE AND LOCATION NCERT Chapter Solutions and Q & A asked in examinations. | India by INSAT (source: India Meteorological Department) | Q1. Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below. (i) The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through (a) Rajasthan (b) Orissa (c) Chhattisgarh (d) Tripura Answer: Orissa (ii) The easternmost longitude of India is (a) 97° 25’ E (b) 68° 7’ E (c) 77° 6’ E (d) 82° 32’ E Answer: (a)
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“Meditation 17”‚ a text by John Donne‚ uses metaphors to develop the central idea that all people are connected. To convey this‚ Donne uses two metaphors to establish the concept of unity with every person in the world. The first metaphor describes how the church is universal and people are connected through it. He states‚ “the church is catholic‚ universal‚ so are all her actions” (488). This forms the idea that every person is connected‚ with depicting the church as connected to all people. The
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Guns‚ Germs‚ And Steel Author: Jared Diamond 1. Write a short half a page biography of the author; include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Mason Diamond was born on 10 September 1937 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. He earned an A.B degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a Ph.D. in physiology from Cambridge University in 1961. Diamond was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1962 to 1966‚ at which point he became a professor of physiology at the UCLA
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and see lanes all over three continents of the world – Asia‚ Europe and Africa. Starting in the third century BCE‚ China used the Silk Roads to carry trade goods to the lands of the Mediterranean. Moreover‚ people from Eurasia and Africa participated in the commercial transactions since the second century BCE. Traders and religious pilgrims travelled the roads for a bigger purpose than just trading: They spread political and religious ideas throughout three continents by sharing their experiences
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The first intervention was to stop dehumanizing Africans who were sold into slavery to work and develop other continents. That was followed by stringent moves to decolonize Africa. The decolonization process gradually led to the agitation for self-rule‚ which was actually initiated by the likes of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah‚ the first President of the republic of Ghana. With
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