scientist‚ Alfred Wegener in the twentieth century. The theory explained that all the continents was once joined as one‚ and through the course of millions of years‚ drifted apart from each other to form separate continents as we see it now. THEORY Before all the continents were separated‚ they existed as one supercontinent‚ Pangaea (Lovett‚ 2008)‚ surrounded by a super ocean‚ known as Panthalassa. Movement of continents can be compared to the movement of icebergs on water. This is because earth is liquid
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crown. After they split up as 2 countries fuelling this rivalry‚ both countries claimed the whole of South America as colonial possession. Pope has to intervene to stop any Christian blood from spilling. He drew a N-S (vertical) line on the map of continent‚ giving the east half to Portugal and west half to Spain. So‚ Brazil became Portuguese and the rest Spanish. This rivalry was vigorous in maritime navigation and Cartography. This rivalry was responsible for the dichotomy of (Lusitania) versus the
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that the Earth’s continents were once joined together‚ but gradually moved apart over millions of years. It offered an explanation of the existence of similar fossils and rocks on continents that are far apart from each other. But it took a long time for the idea to become accepted by other scientists. In this Wegener put forth his explanation for the formation of mountain ranges. Wegener noticed that mountain ranges occurred as narrow bands predominantly at the edge of continents. He thus concluded
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Pan-Africanism‚ race and a social constructed Africa Based on culture‚ identity and world view: slavery‚ slave trade and the African Diaspora Pan-Africanism‚ race and a social constructed Africa ‘What is Africa to me? Once I should have answered the question simply: I should have said "fatherland" or perhaps better "motherland" because I was born in the century when the walls of race were clear and straight in the United States.’ (Du Bois:1968‚ 115) This citation describes the Pan-Africanist
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Gaia (Γαῖα) meaning "Earth". The name was coined during a 1927 symposium discussing Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift. In his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane)‚ first published in 1915‚ he postulated that before later breaking up and drifting to their present locations‚ all the continents had at one time formed a single supercontinent which he called the "Urkontinent".[4] The forming of supercontinents and their breaking up appears to have
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very unique compared to other continents. There are three main reasons for this‚ biological isolation‚ geological stability and the erratic climate. Firstly biological isolation has meant that over the last 40 million years Australia has been separated from all other continents‚ this was the cause from the separation from Gondwanaland around 55 million years ago. This means the Australian flora and fauna has been able to evolve in isolation from all the other continents. It was almost completely covered
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50 Africa Facts Here is the list of 50 facts about the continent of Africa. 1. There are 54 countries and one “nonself governing territory”‚ the Western Sahara‚ in Africa. 2. All of Africa was colonized by foreign powers during the “scramble for Africa”‚ except Ethiopia and Liberia. 3. Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10‚000 different states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs. 4. The Pharaonic civilization of ancient Egypt is one of the world’s oldest and
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reported sightings of the continent within months of each other. The speculation over the true discovery date and discoverer of Antarctica comes with the multiple just reasons. Antarctica may be defined as discovered to some when the proposal of Terra Australis (the vast continent on the southern part of the earth to balance out the globe) which occurred as early as the first century. Also there’s a belief that previous excursions had opportunities to have seen the continent and not reported it. The
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victory‚ over the passions is something external to the notion of the good will itself convinces me that it cannot be the exercise of the capacity that Kant esteems--it must be the capacity itself. Perhaps‚ finally‚ Kant is more impressed by the continent person than by
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of this famine population lives on the continent of Africa. With African countries ’ large amounts of natural resources‚ tropical climate‚ and vast land‚ there should be no major reasoning as to why starvation is as much of a cause of death as it is. A recent study done in December 2003 by the United Nation ’s World Food Program showed that more then 38 million people throughout the continent of Africa are at risk of starvation. (Bond 2003) The continent is home to more then 800 million people
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