Qatar in 1971 was 7‚ whereas in 2010 it decreased all the way to 2. Multiple other countries had the same drastic decrease in TFR‚ which suggests that these countries around the world are becoming more developed which is significant when studying geography in knowing how fast a population is growing and developing. Another concept was infant mortality rate‚ which is the number of deaths per 1000 live births in the first year of life. Rosling suggests that in undeveloped countries‚ such as Congo
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Great evolution took place with our ancestors in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia as time continued‚ evolved in numerous ways. This led to Mesopotamia becoming more advanced as time progressed. While time went on during 10‚000 to 1‚000 B.C.E changes occurred‚ including: hunting and gathering‚ agriculture and the domestication of animals‚ and villages evolved to cities‚ and later onto city-states. Although there were many changes continuities were no exception. Some continuities included transportation and
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The code of Hammurabi of Mesopotamia dates back to 1754 BC when the 6th Babylonian King Hammurabi‚ made judgement on civil‚ family‚ inheritance‚ crime etc. and many other decisions which were written down in order to enforce laws and rules as to how people should behave and conduct themselves. The 282 laws influenced that area for thousands of years and have even drifted into our own into parts of our very own existing legal codes. In fact Hammurabi is edged into the Supreme Court building in Washington
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Valued qualities of Kings in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia 5000 years ago‚ as people discovered or invented more and more tools‚ agriculture replaced hunting and gathering became the main path food comes from. Because of the higher productivity agriculture has and agriculture’s need of settlement‚ people settled down from then on and cities came into being at that time‚ which happened at Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt at first. As the population grew up in these cities‚ people met with the need
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The Flood Stories of the Ancient near East Allie Darling 9/8/13 The Flood Stories of Ancient Near East are very interesting and show what was going on throughout many parts of the East when the floods came through. Some are very similar and sometimes make you think that they are actually the same story while others make you wonder if they are even talking about a flood. One similarity of the flood stories is that In the story of Epic of Gimgamesh and in the flood story from the Book of Genesis
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Urban geography Urban geography is a branch of human geography concerned with various aspects of cities. An urban geographer’s main role is to emphasize location and space and study the spatial processes that create patterns observed in urban areas. To do this‚ they study the site‚ evolution and growth‚ and classification of villages‚ towns and cities as well as their location and importance in relation to different regions and cities. Economic‚ political and social aspects within cities are also
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Although Mesopotamia and China had similarities in politics‚ economics‚ social organization‚ and religion between 8000 BCE - 600 CE‚ they also had differences. Both Mesopotamia and China followed the same pattern to state and empire building (Supanick‚ Notes 2012). They both also had agricultural and trade societies (Supanick‚ Notes 2012). Both also had social inequities and were both polytheistic (Supanick‚ Notes 2012). They also had important differences‚ Mesopotamia’s empires were replaced by
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Mesopotamia civilizations had three definitive cultures which influenced much of the laws and economic views of today. The first culture was called the Sumerian culture which was during the time period between 3000 B.C.E. to 2350 B.C.E. and was known to be the most influential of the three cultures. The Sumerian ruler‚ King Gilgamesh‚ was known for the first narrative writing. Gilgamesh used a wedge shaped form of writing called cuneiform to make words on clay tablets. Once writing was established
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The articles written by Linda McDowell and James Duncan discussed what cultural geography really is and its transformation through time. Linda McDowell’s article was entitled “The Transformation of Cultural Geography” while James Duncan’s article was entitled “The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography.” I find the article of Maxwell more interesting and well-explained than Duncan’s article. The scope of McDowell’s article is more extensive while Duncan’s article is focused on his main argument
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Appendix II Human Development Index‚ 2003 HDI Rank 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 5.000 6.000 7.000 8.000 9.000 10.000 11.000 12.000 13.000 14.000 15.000 16.000 17.000 18.000 19.000 20.000 21.000 22.000 23.000 24.000 25.000 26.000 27.000 28.000 29.000 30.000 31.000 32.000 33.000 34.000 35.000 36.000 37.000 38.000 39.000 40.000 41.000 42.000 43.000 44.000 45.000 Country Norway Iceland Australia Luxembourg Canada Sweden Switzerland Ireland Belgium United States Japan Netherlands Finland Denmark United Kingdom
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