Our planet is extremely large with a diameter of 500k miles across. Its covered mostly with water and the remaining part being habitable land. Very early explorers tried to circumnavigate the globe so as to properly ,map it. Many unfortunately ended up paying with their own lives . When they failed to reach their destinations they were still hailed as heroes by the academic world
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Plains, plateaus, hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys are but a few of our planet’s amazing variety of landforms, the shapes Earth’s surface takes. As you read about these landforms, think about the ones you see in the area where you live. Types of Landforms Geographers recognize many different types of landforms, including […]
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The rich soil of the Indus Valley made productive agriculture possible. Farmers cultivated a variety of crops including wheat, rice, and barley; they also raised chickens, cattle, and buffalo. To irrigate their fields, the farmers created a series of canals and ditches. Trade was also an essential element of life in the Indus Valley.
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Perhaps the most traumatic transition to independence occurred in the Belgian Congo. (The Belgian Congo later became Zaire, which was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.) Belgium, which opposed independence because of the colony’s great wealth in timber and mineral resources, provided few opportunities for Africans to develop their skills in government.
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The Roman Empire collapsed more than 1,500 years ago, but in many ways it never died. Instead, it continues to influence people throughout the world even today. Take language, for example. The Romans based their alphabet on that of the Etruscans who had borrowed theirs from the Greeks, who had borrowed theirs from the Phoenicians.
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Generating Genetic Diversity is of a great deal of importance to the survival and continuity of Humanity. Paradoxically, the evolutionary process is both revolutionary and conservative. It is revolutionary in that the pace of evolutionary change is quickened by genetic recombination, much of which results from sexual reproduction. It is conservative in that change is
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During the Middle Ages, Europeans’ knowledge of the world greatly increased. The Crusades gave many Europeans a firsthand introduction to a world with which they had previously had little or no contact. In the East, at this same time, geography was becoming one of the greatest of the Muslim sciences. A number of Arab travelers
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The earth is a dynamic body that has undergone various changes. These changes are both of internal and external origin. The internal processes are referred to as diastrophism and they tend to elevate the earth’s surface. They are counterbalanced by the external processes that wear down the land surface. The constant interaction between these two
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What we are experiencing today is the marginalisation of inferior languages by superior languages, the languages used for official purposes, for conducting businesses around the world are slowly killing the native tongues, some languages are disappearing as they lose grip of a fast changing world, in many countries when a child grows
One thing you’d discover learning a new language is difficulty in saying the words correctly, the native speakers of that language will jeer you often, mock you saying that your communication skills are poor, you are just not pronouncing the words correctly, maybe your mother-tongue emphasized different parts of the vocal
Chief Okalavou the ruler of the left western Indian tribe is fearing loss of his chiefdom, so he calls Bundokishva, one of his youngest sons, he tells him, “last night I had a dream, the most terrifying nightmare I have ever had since the day I was born.” “In my dream”, he
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