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Algeria
Number of Words: 889 / Number of Pages: 4
... lasted until 106 BC, when his grandson Jurgatha became a Roman client. As part of the Roman Empire Numidia flourished, with successfully building a road system as well as a series of Roman garrisons which became small Roman cities. The coastal region was held by the Romans and the Vandals until the Arab invasion in the 7th century AD. The Arab people controlled the coastal area and introduced Islam to the Algiers, Oran, Constantine, and Annaba and then established their own Islamic nation. Several empires followed this Islamic rule until the 13th century, when the immigrating Bedouins introduced ...
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Chad
Number of Words: 1227 / Number of Pages: 5
... total to 5,968 km. Chad is landlocked which has no coastline.
It has no marital claims. The disputes between Chad and other countries is that
Libya claims and occupies the 100,000 km2 Aozou Strip in the far north. The year
around climate is tropical in the south, and desert in the north. The terrain is
broad, arid plains in the center, desert in the north, lowlands in the south and
mountains in the northwest. The natural resources are petroleum, uranium, natron,
kaolin, and fish. The land use consists of arable land (2%), permanent crops
(0%), meadows and pastures (36%), forest and woodland (11%), an ...
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Germany
Number of Words: 4188 / Number of Pages: 16
... a
democratically elected Parliament, a government, administrative agencies and
independant courts. However, states are binding to the federal constitution, the
federal constitution is binding upon the states and the federal parliament is
responsible for major legislation and policy. The state parliaments main
responsibility is in two major policy areas: education, and law and order.
Administration of federal legislation is mainly the responsibility of the states,
allowing for greater consideration of local needs and issues. This system of
government ia also intended to bring government clos ...
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The Enigma Of Atlantis
Number of Words: 230 / Number of Pages: 1
... people of the ancient items didn't usually record events in history, have
you ever heard of passing it on from generation to generation?
Have gods ever laid before such cruel punishment on any civilization
like Plato claims was laid on Atlantis? To say that there was terrible heat,
then tidal waves, and earthquakes during a twenty four hour period of time is
unheard of.
Atlantis is just an island of the Greek Myths and that's all the island
of Atlantis is a myth. The idea that an island almost half the Atlantic Ocean
away (Thera) could be Atlantis is insane. According to what Plato said the
is ...
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Germany
Number of Words: 1959 / Number of Pages: 8
... Germany is bordered by
the North and Baltic Seas. These have busy shipping ports. There are also
four main rivers in Germany. In the West is the Rhine River, the Danube is
in the South, the Oder is in the East, and the Elbe and the Weser Rivers
are in the north.
The soil in Germany varies. The North German plains has soil that is
soft and fertile. Much of the rest of Germany has rocky soil.
The minerals in Germany are: Coal, potash, lignite, iron, and uranium.
There are mines in Germany but are mainly coal.
There is a large variety of plants in Germany. They range from crops ...
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Africa
Number of Words: 319 / Number of Pages: 2
... resources, clean water, good doctors and lack of doctors people have some health problems. Some of the resources does have though are aluminum, asbestos, chromium, coal, cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold, graphite, iron ore, lead, mica, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, natural gas, oil, salt, sulphur, tungsten, unranium, vanadium, and zinc. There are many land resources but not many industries or people to take machines and dig for them. I thought to be a interesting but needful continent. It needs more people to build and help the people live in peace and live prosporous. I learned that not everyone li ...
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Effect Of The Environment On Western Settlers
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... trails in between were very rough and
bumpy, making the trek no easy task.
On the home front, the environment played an important role on the
family life as well.. Women had a more prominent role in society as we shifted
from the urbanized east to the more agrarian west. They were expected to do more
than they did in the past, such as make the clothing everyone in the family wore,
while the man was off toiling in the desert in search for food. With an
increased sense of independence, women had gained rights to vote and
proprietorship. But with this increased sense of independence came the added
resp ...
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The Azores Islands
Number of Words: 1524 / Number of Pages: 6
... which is a lake, caught between two mountainsides. When you walk across the lake you see shades of blue and green. The tale states that there once lived a princess whom fell in love with a shepherd. Her father, the king, would not allow them to be together, so he set the princess, who had green eyes, on one mountain top, and the shepherd, who had blue eyes, on the other. They say that their tears of sorrow went all the way down the mountain and collided, creating a lake, which appears to be blue and green. (Perrson)
There is a place northeast Sao Miguel called Furnas. Furnas is a hot spring t ...
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History Of The Marshall Islands
Number of Words: 1890 / Number of Pages: 7
... have
found to be 40 ft. high. Archaeologists are still puzzled of what kind of
machinery they had to move such large stones.
The real knowledge we know about the Marshall Islands history began in
the early sixteenth century. The sea going Europeans were trying to find
sources of the Spice Islands that were in very large demand in Europe. English,
Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese sea captains were all sailing around on their hunt
for riches. One of the first people we know of to definitely land on the
Marshall Islands during this time is Ferdinand Magellan. He landed in
Micronesia on his journey ...
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Ghana
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... to establish a legislative body of 84 members, as a
result of mass rioting. In 1853, a Supreme Court was established to
maintain justice and to ensure that the citizens would obey the laws of
Britain. In 1895, municipal governments were established for the larger
towns of; Accra, Cape Coast and Sekondi.
In 1954, after many years as a British Colony, the Gold Coast wrote a
second Constitution giving over the power of running the country to native
Africans, citizens of the region. The only exception was External Accord,
Defense and Police, which were still primarily white government position ...
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