1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800 1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt
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FACTS * Also known as Sirt Basin. Named after the town in Libya‚ Sirte. It was the hometown of Gaddafi. LOL * Ranks 15th among the worlds’ petroleum provinces. * Estimated reserves of 43.1 billion barrels of crude oil: 36.7 billion barrels of oil and 37.7 trillion scf of gas (3). * An approximate land area of 230‚000 km2. * Its dominate petroleum system is the Sirte-Zelten Total Petroleum System (3). * Primary source rock is the Campanian-Coniacian Sirte-Rachmat shale of
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PAGE DISCUSSION ON VULCANICITY IN EAST AFRICA. SS/BSS/09/0069 11/24/2010 GEO 211 | Vulcanicity comprises of all the processes through which emissions of magma‚ rock fragments called pyroclaitics and gases are released through openings in the earth’s crust. Most volcanoes appear to be explosive in nature and produce more pyroclastics than lava. The common types of vulcanoes are shield‚ conical and composite volcanoes. Basically‚ vulanicity in Eastern Africa can be categorized into four main
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Asia‚ the Middle East‚ and Africa. The Western nations‚ pursuing new raw materials‚ established control‚ and became very powerful. The non-Western world obtained many benefits‚ such as industrialization and public education. While imperialism proved beneficial‚ it also resulted in warfare‚ racism‚ economic discrimination‚ and slavery. Both India and sub-Saharan Africa were affected by European imperialism. Between 1750 and 1914‚ European imperialism in India and sub-Saharan Africa created a similar
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Change Over Time: Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean trade began in 650 A.D. and lasted until 1750. When the Indian Ocean trade began it was very simple but over the years there were many changes. The desire to have more goods had increased and soon enough so did technology which made the Indian Ocean trade more efficient. The Indian Ocean trade was influenced by variation of many political power and it was the key-factor to the east-west exchange connecting non-neighboring countries and the spreading
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Characterization of Sedimentary Basins-Trinidad’s Southern Basin Trinidad’s southern Basin is a topographically low area between the Central Range Uplift and the southern Range Uplift. It forms an eastern part of the eastern Venezuelan Basin‚ which is positioned east of Venezuela and the Orinoco Delta. The basin is structurally deformed as a result of compressional tectonics. The tectonics are attributed to a triple boundary created from the interplay of the southern American‚ Caribbean and Atlantic
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Tsunamis A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water‚ such as an ocean‚ is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Earthquakes‚ mass movements above or below water‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions‚ landslides‚ large meteorite impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastating. The term tsunami comes from the Japanese words(津波、つなみ) meaning harbor ("tsu"‚
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Eliot’s poem ‘To the Indians who Died in Africa’ is an interesting Eliot piece. It is not often you read a poem by Eliot which refrains from striking the grand pose. He tended to invoke the giant issues of human soul every time he penned a poem‚ except of course‚ when he wrote those cat poems. But this is a puzzlingly small-aimed poem. A bit advise not grand wisdom‚ I guess. That this poem in imbued in the war and empire atmosphere is obvious. What he has to say to the Indians is funnily passive‚
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The Indian Ocean region trade had many changes and continuities between 650 and 1750 CE. Economically‚ Indian Ocean trade stayed the same with its spread of goods from region to region‚ but changed because of the ways goods were traded along this trade route. Culturally‚ the Indian Ocean trade stayed the same because of that same continuous spread of ideas and religion‚ and changed because of the diffusion of the religions already dominant in regions. Politically‚ the Indian Ocean trade stayed the
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Morocco & Globalization Field Study Globalization is not an abstract process but one rooted in real historical events that profoundly affect our world today. While many explorations of globalization focus on Asia‚ Latin America or sub-Saharan Africa‚ in this course students will learn about issues of globalization in the North African nation of Morocco. During this course‚ students will gain a better understanding of how “globalization” as a concept is rooted in historical‚ cultural‚ political
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