Christmas vacation started when I went to Egypt. We then flew to Cairo where we met rest of the tour group. Imagine Kenyans and Indians in Cairo‚ the largest city in Africa with a population of about 16 million. We stayed at grand Pyramids hotel‚ a five star hotel in the centre of the city. We soon found out that even if Egypt is a third world country‚ it is much modernized. This is especially in Cairo with its fantastic art deco‚ great shopping areas and great roads. We started our trip in Cairo
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The Sahel of North Africa is a semi-arid transition region between the Sahara desert to the Northern and wetter regions of middle Africa near the equator. This area stretches from the Atlantic ocean in the west to the Indian ocean in the east. The Sahel of North Africa has undergone extreme environmental changes over the past eleven thousand years. Due to the extreme climatic changes and social conflict that is prevalent in that region‚ Sahel has drawn the attention of the global community.
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supplemental reading chapter 4. The authors makes it clear right away‚ that Europeans did not originate the idea of exporting slaves along the African coast. This had been a practice of the merchants of Timbuktu & the Moorish kingdoms north of the Sahara. There had also been a long history of transatlantic slave trade. Negroes (as called during this time peroid‚refers to the African Americans of today) were in Santo Domingo by 1503‚ & the first 20 slaves were sold in Jamestown‚Virgingia in 1619.
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temperate increase closer to the equator where the average temperate is consistently high? A few degrees warmer in Europe‚ or Minnesota might not be too tragic‚ but residents near the equator would undoubtedly disagree. A temperature increase on the Sahara desert‚ or anywhere along the equator would have definite tragic results. Next the exuberant‚ expressive‚ and over-joyed professor Phillip Scott‚ when discussing the medieval warm period‚ states that if the temperature goes up- great riches will
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wet and dry seasons. The wet season starts in April and ends in October‚ while dry season starts in November and ends in March. The months of December and January are usually cold-dry as a result of the influence of direct hamarttan wind from the Sahara desert. The highest rainfall usually occurs between June and July while the mean annual rainfall is about 1‚241 mm. The mean annual temperature is 26.10C and the relative humidity of the area is between 77-86%. With an average of 28.30C‚ March is
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Libya resulting in the fall of the country’s government; civil uprisings in Bahrain. Syria‚ and Yemen; major protests in Algeria‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ Kuwait‚ Morocco‚ and Oman; and minor protests in Lebanon‚ Mauritania‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Sudan‚ and Western Sahara. Clashes at the borders of Israel in May 2011 and the Palestine 194 movement have also been inspired by the regional Arab Spring. The protests have shared techniques of civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes‚ demonstrations‚
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when the western world’s first modern contact with Ethiopian Jews was. (Virtual library) The Ethiopians are a little different in the way that they practice their Judaism‚ because of the Sahara barrier. The Sahara was a block that split of the rest of the world from Ethiopia and the countries right next to the Sahara‚ so because of this Ethiopia was unaware of the rest of the world and how the world practices Judaism. The Ethiopian Jews had wandered to Ethiopia before anything was made except the Torah
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Through sudden progression and change‚ trade had not only become known as a source of commerce and become beneficial towards those who participate in it but‚ it had also become a social and cultural benefactor. Trade itself had become a known concept once someone who is quite curious and adventurous had arrived at another land and voluntarily created diplomatic relations with one another which digresses to successful trades and a new exchange of materials‚ cultures‚ and ideas from each individual
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There are two sides to people who blame Europeans for introducing regimes of labor exploitation and markets for enslaved persons from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century‚ which devastated African societies and those who argue Europeans that had extended older social‚ economic and political arrangements that already existed in most of Africa. From the class discussions and reading my opinion of the issue is Europeans just commercialized and exploited the slave trading business‚ so Europeans
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My Experience as a Kiva Fellow Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva combines the poverty alleviating power of microfinance with the mass participation of the internet. It lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Since 2005‚ nearly 570‚000 people have used Kiva.org to fund +$200M in microloans through MFIs to more than 526‚000 working poor entrepreneurs around the world. Source: Kiva
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