Guns, Germs, and Steel Why did history take a different course for people of different continents? Although People from different continents originated thousands of years before Europeans, they lacked economic development, Climate disadvantages, and technology grew at a very slow rate. Human inequalities on different continents isn't because of biological differences, it is mainly because of Climate, Location, Technology, and other advantages in development of plants and animals. The continents were either isolated, had no writing, or infected by diseases brought in by Europeans. This caused a huge gap between continental differences and why history turned out the way it did.
Based on the details provided, it is evident that all of the cities had increased in population size over the time of 50 years. However it should be accounted that not every one of the regions had increased its population size at the same rate. Some of the regions actually decreased its population size during some of the intervals. During the years from 1961 to 1981, the “premature” Toronto region had decreased its population 0.2% from 1961 to 1971 and 14% from 1971 to 1981. The reason for this would be examined later but other regions apart from Toronto that experienced slight decrease in population are Milton and Orangeville.
While the Nile River was predictable and easier to deal with, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were unpredictable. This meant that the Mesopotamians did not have a constant supply of crops due to the crops that were ruined by the rivers. On the other hand, the Egyptians had no trouble and their agriculture was rich. Therefore, the Mesopotamians were envious of the Egyptians and their environment. Although both civilizations had agriculture, they had different produces.
Journals Chapter 1 At the end of the fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus lead an expedition to the New World. This “New” World had been populated for at least 12,000 years when the Archaic people crossed over from Siberia to Alaska. The Aztec, Inca, and hundreds of other cultures lived there when Christopher Columbus “found” the continents. They spoke a combined 375 languages. The first Archaic Native Americans were hunter-gatherers.
The Indus Valley Civilization was, however, a highly urbanized civilization. There was a large section of the population that was not involved in agriculture, but relied on the farmers in the rural areas for their food. The city dwellers were engaged in occupations like arts and crafts, trade, and seal making. While definite evidence is still lacking, research indicates that there was an organized economic system. One in which the interdependence of the cities and rural areas was marked.
The people present in the region started to transition from their nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles because of the surety and safety the rivers gave in providing farmable land to produce ample food. As more and more people settled in the region, urbanization and surplus occurred. No longer was the society farming to solely support itself, but it was able to export and interact with surrounding societies. The rivers provided the necessary elements for abundant agricultural growth which in turn allowed for the society to grow beyond focusing on basic needs for survival and develop to create political structure and develop artistically. (Kreis,
It is a score between 0 – 1. The closer to 1, the more developed a country, the closer to 0, the less developed a country. Life expectancy is the average number of years that a person can expect to live, the adult literacy rate is the % of adults (aged 15 and above) who can read and write. The United State of America is located in the rich North, as a very high human development country, it has the score of 0.905 in Human Development Index, the 3rd ranking. Its government expenditure on health as a percentage of total government expenditure is 9.5%, in the other hand, Malaysia only has the health expenditure of 2.4%.
The United States has many big cities like New York City, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago. Each of these cities is bigger than Berlin, which is the biggest city in Germany. Germany instead has many small villages with a population of about00 3,000-6,000 people, furthermore a large part of the Germans live in villages in which the population is smaller than 1,000. These villages are less than five kilometers apart which makes it easier to interact with people from other villages. It is like a big network of many small villages which is in contrast to the US completely the opposite.
In chapter 2: The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt were in some ways very much alike. Mesopotamia and Egypt both had a great agriculture that helped them gain a little wealth. The Nile was a big part of the agriculture between the people. The most important waterways were the Indus and the Huang He in Asia, the Danube in Europe, and the Mississippi in North America. These rivers helped farmers with transportation, which then helped their agriculture grow.
It is believed that this migration began around 6,000 years ago. [3] Indo-Aryan migration from the Indus Valley to the plain of the River Ganga in Northern India is presumed to have taken place in the Middle to Late Bronze Age, contemporary to the Late Harappanphase in India (ca. 1700 to 1300 BC). From 180 BC, a series of invasions from Central Asia followed, including those led by the Indo-Greeks, Indo-Scythians, Indo-Parthians and Kushans in the north-western Indian subcontinent. [4][5][6] From about 750 BC, the Greeks began 250 years of