Guns‚ Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies written by Jared Diamond travels through the different aspects of human societies starting from modern human’s pre-Homo ancestors comparing the different variations that have occurred throughout time‚ ending at the modern Homo sapiens in the world today. The focus of this book is why some societies strive while other fail. Diamond looked at the different advantages and disadvantages of the areas these societies lived in and in his own words deriving
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Continental drift is a theory stating that the Earth’s continents have been joined together and have moved away from each other at different times in the Earth’s history. The theory was first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Whilst his general idea of continental movement eventually became widely accepted‚ his explanation for the mechanism of the movement has been supplanted by the theory of plant tectonics. However there was a problem in accepting this idea originally because Wegener had no convincing
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QUIZ REVIEW NOTES (Autumn 2013) Review Materials 1. online textbook--Modules 1 (Geography/Culture)‚ 2 (Timeline)‚ 3 (Worldview) 2. course packet—P3-7; p9-13; p18-27 Question Format: (35 regular questions + 2 bonus questions) 1. Multiple choice (only one answer is correct) 2. True or False 3. Matching i. Geography of East Asian Countries • Official names of East Asian countries / capitals (e.g.‚ ROK – Seoul) • Major geographical features and terms (e.g.‚ Yellow Sea Interaction
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Native Americans‚ or Indians‚ or whatever people might choose call people who first came to North America‚ are pictured with bow and arrow‚ riding a horse‚ and hunting buffalos‚ or with a tomahawk in the hand‚ and a feather in their head trying to fight and be violent. The truth is people only see one side of the story. In reality Native Americans have a complex and diverse culture‚ that has evolved as the time has passed. They have gone from hunting mammoths‚ and collecting wild barriers to farming
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to the New World. The Land Bridge theory holds that people first migrated from Northern Asia less than 12‚000 years ago crossing to North America over a temporary land bridge between Asia and Alaska. The 1‚000 kilometer-wide land bridge known as Beringia appeared as a result of the drop in the sea
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westernmost point of the North American continent. Named after Vitus Bering‚ a Russian explorer born in Denmark. The Strait has been the subject of scientific speculation that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia when lower ocean levels – perhaps a result of glaciers locking up vast amounts of water – exposed a wide stretch of the sea floor‚ both at the present strait and in the shallow sea north and south of it. This view of how Paleo-Indian entered America
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peoples had developed societies that spread across the Americas‚ the Caribbean‚ and parts of South America and Central America. The ancestors of the indigenous peoples were originally from Central East Asia and came across the frozen Bering Strait/Beringia to North America during the Ice Age. The Bering Strait‚ in essence‚ was a frozen ice bridge‚ which connected Asia to North America. They were nomadic people‚ and in search of food they wandered from Asia to North America. Their wandering would have
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Evolution of Tigers The tiger (Panthera tigris)‚ a member of the Felidae family‚ is the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera include: The tiger‚ lion‚ jaguar‚ leopard. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia‚ the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. 1‚ The origin and evolution of the tiger. Carnivorous mammals evolved from Miacids small pine marten-like insectivores that lived 60 million - 55 million years ago. The miacids split into
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Paleo-indians: These were the first Americans‚ nomadic hunters and gatherers‚ they dispersed throughout N and S America after crossing Beringia. By 11‚500 years ago‚ they were making stone tools. By 900 years ago‚ they began to cultivate crops. Some began to establish permanent settlements. They reached their peaks of success after they mastered agriculture. Mayans: The Maya established an empire about 2000 years ago in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Their city‚ Teotihuacan housed 100‚000 people
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Legally speaking‚ an American citizen is defined as someone who is “born or naturalized in the United States.” However‚ is the true meaning of an American simply a textbook definition? Although the “Irish who built the canals‚ the Chinese who built the railroads‚ [and] the many Latinos who clambered over construction sites” may have been from lands afar‚ they all shared one commonality; the goal to better not only themselves but also our country as a whole. Being an American is not only having legal
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