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    Evolution and growth of Muslim society in the Sub-continent Although Islam spread rapidly in the world as soon as it surfaced in the world‚ but it established its foothold in the Indo-Pak Sub-continent in the beginning of 8th Century A.D. It was during the rule of sixth Umayyad caliph‚ Walid bin Abdul Malak (705-715 A.D)‚ when an overarching incidence of ship looting occurred near Debal‚ a sea port. The ships‚ carrying widows and children of deceased Arab soldiers‚ sent by the king of Ceylon (present

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    The efforts rendered by the sufis in propagation of islam in the sub continent are unforgettable‚ innumerable and splendid. The spread of islam in the sub continent owes much to the efforts‚ exertions and the personal examples of the muslim saints and sufis who made concerted and diligent efforts to reach out to the amasses and sensitize them about the teachings of the islam. Most of these muslim saints migrated to india b/w the time span of eleventh and fourteenth century and devoted their lives

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    Ocean. Global trade is the exchange of valuable and substantial products that are desired by a continent‚ and in this case‚ it was silver. Silver played a prominent role throughout the global trade with China being the primary end-market for world silver for several centuries. (#2‚ p.393) The reason China was the primary source of silver is the result of having significantly high prices‚ whereas other continents had more suitable pricings. The central point is that all the great silver mines in both hemispheres

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    Colonizing is when a group of settlers come and take control of a place and it is usually forced. South America is a unique place to live‚ with people who have built their lives‚ homes and families there. Based on the negative effects when Europe colonized Africa‚ the US government should not colonize South America because it could cause a detrimental war and change the culture and the way of living that the natives have established. When Europe colonized Africa‚ there were a lot of harmful outcomes

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    totally untrue. Chapter 4 explains that Africans organized into colonies in order to produce raw materials for Western industries. In addition‚ Americans‚ according to Chapter 5 of Mistaking Africa‚ has made an increasing presence in the African continent. For example‚ IBM has opened research labs in Kenya to assist with congested cities‚ and space programs have been advanced to assist farmers in rural Africa. Farmers in rural Africa not only interact with urban cities in Africa but also trade with

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    Understanding the Movement of Earth Continental drift is the idea that continents move freely over Earth’s surface‚ changing their positions relative to one another over time. This hypothesis has been around for more than 130 years. It’s amazing to know that once ago these continents on Earth were once joined together and have split and moved apart from one another. In 1596‚ Abraham Ortelius hypothesized that continents “drift”‚ but later a German meteorologist named‚ Alfred Wegener‚ fully developed

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    (email is on syllabus) Notes are on geology webpage faculty and staff -> Dr. van Hees -> course notes LECTURE: Plate Tectonics Chap.2 -Until ~1915 people thought continents were stuck were they are and they didn’t move. Why did ideas change? -Wegener’s proposed the theory of Continental Drift It proposed that all continents move and that at one time they had all been fused together in a supercontinent called Pangaea. -What evidence did Wegener use to support Continental Drift? -Distribution

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    different rates of human development on different continents. The author explains and expresses this statement by many different angles‚ such as evolution‚ intelligence‚ climate‚ location and advanced technology. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for people of different continents? In other words‚ what steps did different continents take to become who they were and how were they able to take those steps? How did different continents develop faster than others? Could it depend on

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    results of this model “the gross changes of climate in the Northern Hemisphere can be fully explained by the strong cooling in high latitudes as continents moved poleward” (Donn‚ 2013). Today we continue to see climate changes around the world. There are many factors contributing to such changes however‚ the constant motion of the plates causing continents to drift is having a large impact on climate. Plate movement also contributes to increased volcanic activity. When a volcano erupts it releases

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    Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement (40 marks) The plate tectonics theory was made by a German named Alfred Wegener. He stated that a single continent existed about 300 million years ago named Pangaea and that it split into two continents of Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south. Today’s continents were formed by further splitting of the two masses. Evidence to support this theory is that there is that there have been fossils found on both sides of the Atlantic

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