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    known as the land bridge theory as well, the theory takes places during the ice age it is said that the waters of the Bering straits were frozen over and match up, making sea levels lower which allowed the natives of North America to cross over from Asia via Siberia. They did not walk over ice they made a route. This is the origin of our fellow native people. Many believe that the first people to populate the Americas migrated across the Bering Land Bridge while tracking large game animal herds. Becoming

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    THE IMPACT OF ISO 14001 ON ASIAN FIRMS 1, Challenging World of Business in Asia Firms in developed countries have been faced with increasing amounts of pressure to manage and evaluate the impact of their activities on environment as the impacts went well beyond local and regional levels since around the 1970s. Following the developed countries, the same concern has become increasingly obvious in Asia as most of Asian industries have been developed through the export driven style economy and this

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    The Origins of the Modern World by Robert B. Marks is a book about the historical changes that has happened in the period of 1400-1850. He shows that how Asia is the center of trade prior to the 1800s not the standard Eurocentric and it is a polycentric world in term of the world trade. He learned from recent scholarships on East Asia, India, Africa, and the Middle East that has raised significant doubts about Eurocentric explanations. In the Origins, he focuses on the economic history of China

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    The Modern Middle East Student’s Name University The Modern Middle East The Middle East is a region of Western Asia and Egypt; some of the countries in this region are Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. According to Anderson, Seibert & Wagner (2006), this region is of vast geo-economic importance and since ancient times, it has been a center of world affairs. This part matters to almost all superpowers. The geographic factors that contribute to the

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    Kenneth McCuin Jr. East Asia Chong Min December 18, 2014 Population Growth Effects of Gender Asia is considered as being the Earth’s largest continent which also has the most population. The population size in Asia is said to be approximately 4.3 billion people (Zhao, 2013), which is about 60 percent of the total population in the world. Over the years, around the 20th century, they were more commonly known for the fast growing rate of their population but as time passed they have been able to control

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    technologies, created economic goals, and rise of nations. Exploration in the 1500’s relates back to US history because during the Age of Exploration America was founded. Portugal took the lead in search of the first all-water route to Asia. To control trades with Asia was Portugal’s number one priority. Portuguese sailors used a ship named caravel to sail the seas. It had a triangular sail and three masts. The triangular sail let the cravel sail through wind. The caravel was the fastest and lightest

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    the region of South Asian has served as a hub of attractive economic activity for the other states out of the region. It situated with the South East Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia. These territories are measured quite insightful and purposefully significant regions of the world. China, Central Asia and Russia are all at the north of South Asia. On its south western surface it provides entrée to the Persian Gulf while on south eastern part there is an entrance to the Malaccan passage. Indian

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    How the Middle East and West Perceive each other Followed by a year of continuous terror attacks by ISIS, riots over cartoon portrayals of the Prophet PBUH, and the ongoing war in Iraq and Afghanistan, many Muslims and Westerners know that they have developed bad relations these days. The media continuously portrays the Middle East as nation filled with terrorist whilst the West are portrayed as the nation that is trying to make peace. There have been so many misconceptions that have made both cultures

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    biggest country in the world, with an area of about 9,600,000 km2 (3,700,000 sq mi), China stretches five time zones in East Asian landmass with more than 1.35 billion inhabitants. Generally, China is high in the west and descends to the east, devided into three stages, so most rivers flow west-east. In this paper, we experience the different environment, weather, how people affect environment, and political geography through traveling. Starting our journey from the first stage of China, Tibet, where

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    Reasons why Europe Colonized Asia and Africa and not the Other Way Round Student’s Name: Institutional affiliation: Colonization is the governing influence, control or acquiring partial or full political control past another country, occupying it with foreign settlers and manipulating it economically. It also is when a group or society of people migrates from one area to another but keep their original homeland language and culture. Colonialism is establishment and preservation

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