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Ice Age Extinctions Of The Megafauna
1,675 wordsICE AGE EXTINCTIONS OF THE MEGAFAUNA During the last Ice Age before humans arrived, the North American continent belonged to various forms of enormous, fantastic creatures. By the end of the Ice Age, most of these large animals had become extinct. Numerous attempts have been made to explain the disappearance of these animals, but there has yet to be a consensus. Among the theories that have been debated, two are predominant. They are the climatic change theory, and the overkill theory. The clima...
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Men Are Created Equal Rights Of Man
1,497 wordsEurope has been the focal point in history for hundreds of years. It has been the stating and ending place of many empires. Europe in the Nineteenth Century was a very critical point in history. Wars were being fought, boundaries of countries changed, countries were becoming unified, revolutions destroyed countries, but the most critical happening that did more to shape Europe's character and structure in the Nineteenth Century, than any other event was the era of the French Revolution and Napol...
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Greek Philosopher Atlantic Ocean
1,022 wordsThesis Statement: Many world renowned historical philosophers, explorers, and premonition ists have made many credible theories about the lost continent which have historical documentation to make them believable. IV. Atlantis and the Earths Shifting Crust Do you believe in the lost continent of Atlantis? Or do you believe that it is merely a fairy tale for a misrepresentation in history? Many of these glitches in history have been exploited as absurd accounts of a lost continent once destroyed....
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Eight Hundred Ice Age
996 words... , the Atlantean's attempted to leave the continent in order to teach other civilizations what they had learned and about their culture (Starbuck). Arysio Nunes dos Santos has a different theory than the others. Santos places the continent of Atlantis in the Indies, India and Indonesia. So far this is the only place where there have been virtually no sightings of Atlantis. He believes that the remains of Atlantis lie at the bottom of the of the South China Sea. He also agrees with Plato on ho...
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Lewis And Clark Sierra Nevada
1,248 words... lt and slow going due to the fact that the river level had fallen significantly, and navigating it by boat was incredibly difficult. On October 15 th, he found Clark, and so began the expedition, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The expedition decided to spend that winter at Camp Wood, along the Missouri river in Present day Illinois. Throughout the next two years, the expedition made significant scientific discoveries, and mapped much of the Missouri river as well as much of the western half...
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Dutch And Spanish Seafarers Dutch And Spanish Australia
1,261 wordsThe first Europeans to find Australia were Dutch and Spanish seafarers that arrived in Australia sometime during the 1600 -hundreds, but they weren't the first people except the aboriginals who had come to Australia. Chinese sailors had visited it in the 1200 -hundreds. The Dutch and Spanish seafarers thought that it was part of an undiscovered continent - "a Great South land." They didn't explore Australia. It was a British seafarer who explored the continent in the late 1700 -hundreds. James C...
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Sir Francis Drake Spanish Armada
1,715 wordsSir Francis Drake Francis Drake was an experienced and daring seafarer. Among many adventures, the famous voyage, his successful circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 ensured that he would be one of the best remembered figures of Tudor England. In his own lifetime, he was thought of with mixed feelings, both at home and abroad. Some English people regarded him as a hero, but he was distrusted by others, who saw him as having risen above his station. Although he was feared and hated...
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Marco Polo Environmental Impact
4,300 wordsIntroduction This essay discusses the environmental impact of tourism on Antarctica. The subheading Description will give an overview of the continent, highlight the unique landscape, weather patterns and research stations making up some of the tourist attractions of this continent. The subheading Tourism in Antarctica gives an account of the type of tourist Antarctica attracts and their primary motive identifying scientific research staff as tourists as well as highlighting the current trends a...
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Achieve This Goal Lewis And Clark
2,426 wordsBy the late 1700 s, the young United States began to look westward and dream about the possibilities it presented. They wondered if there was in fact an all water route from the Mississippi to the Pacific, what the whole continent actually looked like, and really, what was out there. There were many individual and groups of people that helped pave an opening for the eventual settlement of the American west. Two of the most recognizable and important groups that opened up the west were the Lewis ...
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