the world. From Mecca he departed to Iraq and western part of Persia the extent that Tabriz and in 1327 returned through Baghdad to Mecca‚ where he put in the following 3 years. Ibn Battuta then went by boat along the Red Sea shores to Yemen and from Aden to Mogadishu and the East African exchanging
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The Importance of External Factors In Influencing The Conducting Of US Foreign Policy To answer the essay question‚ external factors are indeed important in influencing the conducting of American foreign policy‚ as they are for all countries. They are important because they determine the direction American foreign policy takes‚ and with it‚ can drastically alter the futures of entire countries (Iraq & Afghanistan post 9/11). This essay will devote itself to exploring and explaining how each external
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Dhirubhai Ambani Dhirajlal Hirachand "Dhirubhai" Ambani (28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002) When we discuss Indian pioneers one name‚ which we can’t pass up a major opportunity‚ is Dhirubhai Ambani. He was business tycoon of India. He was honored with the Padma Vibhushan‚ India’s second most noteworthy non military personnel honor for his commitments towards the Trade and Industry. He was born in a poor Modh baniya family on 28th December 1932 to a neighborhood teacher in a town called Chorwad‚ in
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Definition of Piracy Piracy is typically an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land‚ in the air‚ or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents. Piracy or pirating is the name of
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or agricultural use‚ for hydro-electric power generation or domestic water supply‚ or for aesthetic or recreational purposes. Lake‚ large‚ inland body of fresh or salty standing water. Lakes are distinguished from bodies of water such as bays and gulfs‚ and some seas‚ that have an interchange with the ocean and are subject to tides. Lake basins are formed by many geologic processes‚ such as buckling of stratified rock into large folds‚ displacement of large masses of rock by faults (see Fault)‚ and
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flows southward through Lake Hula into the Sea of Galilee in Israel‚ then continues south through the Jordan Rift Valley into the Dead Sea on the Israeli-Jordanian border. From the Dead Sea southwards‚ the Rift is occupied by the Wadi Arabah‚ then the Gulf of Aqaba‚ and then the Red Sea. Off the southern tip of Sinai in the Red Sea‚ the Dead Sea Transform meets the Red Sea Rift which runs the length of the Red Sea. The Red Sea Rift comes
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The Impact of Globalization on Somali Culture Abstract Since its inception in 1960 when it gained independence from Britain and Italy respectively after the merger of former British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland into what came to be known as the republic of Somalia‚ the impact of globalization on Somali culture has evidently been beneficial and detrimental in many aspects. The idea that a nation cannot progress economically without a strong central government does not coincide with the current
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Djibouti is located in the northeast of Africa‚ on the Gulf of Aden around the entrance to the Red Sea. It is pretty much a stony desert with highland and scattered plateaus‚ also the size of Massachusetts. Djibouti had gained independence on the date of June 27th‚ 1977. It had been named the French Somaliland when the French were colonized there‚ but when Djibouti won independence it was better known as the Republic of Djibouti. Now let’s go back in time. From the 7th century enslaved Africans were
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The Somali Republic is the easternmost extension of the African continent and is bordered by Djibouti‚ Ethiopia‚ Kenya‚ the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The Somali are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. More than eight million Somalis live in a territory stretching north from northern Kenya to Djibouti and west from the Indian Ocean to the Ogaden in Ethiopia. Although Somalis are often seen as one of the few ethnic groups that define a nation‚ the country of Somalia does contain small
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variables that we learned in class and will be a good way of preparing the reader if he/she were to go to Yemen and will have an insight of my reflection. Yemen Background Information Yemen is in the Middle East‚ bordering Saudi Arabia‚ Oman‚ and The Gulf of Aden. Major geographic landmarks include the Red Sea to the West‚ the Arabia Sea to the South‚ and the great Rub al Khali desert to the North and East (Adensafari). Due to Yemen’s land of mountains and desert‚ the climate in Yemen is generally hot
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