Mexico
.... Mexicans now live in cities.
Mexico City, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 16 million
people, is the largest city in the world. While still low by United States
standards, the nation's gross national product per capita rose significantly
during the 1970s. Despite impressive social and economic gains, since 1981
Mexico has been wracked by severe inflation and an enormous foreign debt brought
on in large part by precipitous declines in the value of petroleum products.
Geologically, Mexi .....
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Mexico
.... is thirty-three feet below sea
level.
The capital of Mexico is Mexico City. The metropolitan area of Mexico
City is home to about 14,987,051 people of Mexico's total population of about
93,670,000, according to a 1990 census. Although most of Mexico's population is
from Mexico City, which is the biggest city in the world, Mexico's other cities
include Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Puebla. Most of Mexico's population lives
in urban areas, about seventy-five percent, and the population density is abo .....
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Nova Scotia
.... composed of three separate areas
of uplands. The western section includes North Mountain, a long ridge of
traprock along the Bay of Fundy; the central section takes in the Cobequid
Mountains, which rise to 367 m (1204 ft) atop Nuttby Mountain; and the eastern
section contains the Cape Breton Highlands, with the province's highest point.
The Annapolis Lowland, in the west, is a small area with considerable fertile
soil. Nova Scotia's fourth region, the Maritime Plain, occupies a small region
fronting on .....
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Italy
.... who ruled the eastern part
of the Roman Empire, defeated the Ostrogoths and expelled them. For a time, the
Old Roman Empire was united again. Byzantine rule in Italy collapsed as
increased attacks fr om Germanic tribes weakened the empire. Byzantine rule
collapsed in 572 when the Lombards invaded.
In the 400's and 500's the popes increased their influence in both
religious and political matters in Italy and elsewhere. The popes were usually
the ones who made attempts to protect Italy from foreign in .....
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The Panama Canal
.... Later more of the canal plans were suggested but no action was
taken upon any of these plans suggested.
Later on there is more in the canal. The Spanish goverment abandoned
its interest in the canal but in the early 19 th century the books of the
Germam scientist Alexander von Humboldt brang back the interest in the project
of the canal, and in 1819the Spanish goverment formally athorized the
construction of a canal and the creation of a company to build it. Nothing
came of this effort, however, and .....
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The Pyramids Of Egypt
.... of regular life,
the ka could return and continue its life despite the death of the physical body.
The Egyptians also had other means of burial practices. Many of the
pharaohs were buried in hidden temples. A famous discovery is the one of King
Tutankhamen.
King Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty chose a plateau in Giza for his
pyramid. He followed his father's constructions which was the first real
pyramid.
The pyramid of Cheops was also known as the Great Pyramid. One hundred
thousand Egyptians .....
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Rwanda Report
.... I can't find how big it is
but it must be bigger than twenty miles square and under twenty six thousand
three hundred and thirty eight square miles.
The official name of Rwanda is called The Republic Of Rwanda. Rwanda is also
landlocked which doesn't help much either. Since it is landlocked I will tell
you which countries it is surrounded by on the north it is by Ughanda, on the
east by Tanzanian the south by Burundi and finally on the west it is next to
Zaire. Rwanda is one of the poorest countries .....
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South Africa
.... coal, and 55,333 million
tons of that are projected reserves. Coal currently supplies 84% of South
Africa's electricity.
Suth Africa has been looking to develop and find more sources of
natural gas, and oil. Large amounts of gas were recently found at Mossel Bay on
the south coast. The reserves are large enough to produce 25,000 of diesel and
petrol a day for thirty years.
South Africa has one nuclear power plant. It also has a large supply of
Uranuim, which is a by product of copper mining. It has 247, .....
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Spain
.... density of about 202 per sq mi.
Spain is increasingly urban, with more than 80 percent of the population in
towns and cities.
Principal Cities
The capital and largest city is Madrid (population, greater city, 1991,
3,010,492), also the capital of Madrid autonomous region; the second largest
city, chief port, and commercial center is Barcelona, capital of Barcelona
province and Catalonia region. Other important cities include Valencia, capital
of Valencia province and Valencia region, a manufacturing .....
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Ethiopia
.... The final area being the hot or kolla zone, encompassing an area with an
altitude less than 5 000 ft. The cool zones temperatures and precipitation can
be seen on figure 3. The temperate zones temperatures range from 15.6C to 29.4C.
The temperature in the hot zone of the lowlands can reach temperatures as high
as 60C.
There are two distinct seasons in Ethiopia the rainy season, or kremt, lasting
from mid-June to mid-semptember. the other is the Dry season, or bega,
lasting from mid-September to mid-J .....
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The Five Themes Of Geography
.... element of social studies education,
because they take the world of geographic study beyond the realm of basic
memorization, and into a new plane of analysis and implementation. These five
themes include location, place, human-environment interactions, movement, and
regions.
Location answers the question of "where?". If you plan to meet someone
at a specific time, and a specific place, the question of "Where will you meet?"
must first be answered. To resolve this situation, Geography employs A .....
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Peru
.... subsistence crops; the country also
has large cooperative farms. The chief agricultural products, together with the
approximate annual yield (in metric tons) in the late 1980s, were sugarcane (6.2
million), potatoes (2 million), rice (1.1 million), corn (880,000), seed cotton
(280,000), coffee (103,000), and wheat (134,000). Peru is the world's leading
grower of coca, from which the drug cocaine is refined.
The livestock population included about 3.9 million cattle, 13.3 million
sheep, 1.7 million goat .....
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Chisholm Trail
.... people in the north
had money to buy beef and cattle which was in great demand. A cow that cost 4
to5 dollars a head in Texas was going for 40 to 50 dollars a head in the east.
Ranchers hired cowboys for the cattle drives north, realizing the great
opportunity for a large profit if they could reach the railroads in Abilene,
Kansas.
Joseph McCoy, a stock dealer from Springfield, Illinois, decided a new
trail was necessary west of the farms. In 1867, he chose a route that would
reach Abilene and .....
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The Colorado River
.... a reliable or
accessible water source, and timber for building was difficult to find. There
was a lack of land that could be irrigated easily.
By the turn of the century, most present day cities and towns were
already established. Trails, roads, and railroads linked several areas with
neighboring regions. Although the Colorado River drainage system was still not
integrated. In the mid 1900's many dams had been built to harness and use the
water. A new phase of development occurred at the e .....
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The Industrial Heartland
.... in this area. Most mines and
mills are located by waterways to make transportation readily available for it's
transport's. Coal, limestone, and many other kinds of mines use the Great
Lakes to transport, which happens to be in the middle of the Industrial
Heartland. They usually have tons of material to move so water transportation
can carry lots of material, it's cheap, but it's also slow. Another important
route in this region is the St. Lawrence Seaway, which was an significant
factor in the dec .....
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