ABILITY TO OBTAIN WATER 1 Ability to Obtain Water The ability to obtain abundant, pure water is a basic requirement for an individual’s well-being. Likewise, access to abundant, safe water is also indispensable for resilient agricultural crops as well as a thriving national economy. These requirements for pure water are so substantial that disputes amongst regional groups, states, as well as nations arise on a frequent basis regarding
Ibn Battutah was a Moroccan scholar who traveled to different regions in Asia and Africa. Throughout 1325 to 1354 C.E he traversed the regions of Asia and Africa. Ibn Battutah decided after his second pilgrimage to Mecca, he would travel on the road. He documented each of the travels he did on his journey. He wrote down his experiences, his thoughts, the diverse individuals he met, the customs of the different countries and regions he visited, and the overall state of the regions he visited. Throughout
The Aral Sea Disaster Abstract The Aral Sea and the entire Aral Sea basin area have achieved worldwide notoriety due to the environmental disaster. The example of the Aral Sea disaster has sent a signal to the entire international community demonstrating how fast and irrevocable the environmental system can be ruined if there is no long-term thinking and planning in place. This paper gives a broad overview of the policies that have resulted in dying of the forth-largest inland body of water
In the hot and dry country of Afghanistan its people struggle to survive under the turmoil its government has created. Afghanistan's current government is left divided and struggling to put a solid form of government to support its people (Dupree). Afghanistan's borders is one that has been shaped by past invaders who have seeked to gain control of land to fulfill their own expansion needs. Nancy Dupree states that “Afghanistan has long been a prize sought by empire builders”(Dupree). The country's
This essay will look at the typical nature of arid regions and will look at the impacts to the environment through management from societies living in these areas. First of all, arid “refers to areas where the climate is extremely dry. Such climates were defined as being areas with less than 250mm of precipitation per year, but in reality this is too simple.” (Skinner et al 2007 p12) The arid zone is characterized by excessive heat and inadequate, variable precipitation. Thornthwaite in 1931, was
The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age civilization. It is mainly situated in the northwestern regions of South Asia, primarily centered in Pakistan and extending in to north east Afghanistan and north west India. There were three early civilizations of OLD WORLD i.e. Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. But, Indus valley civilization was the most widespread. It flourished in the basins of the Indus river, which flows through the length of Pakistan. The Indus Valley
Interestingly enough, many different ethnic groups can be found in Afghanistan. Some are from other countries and others have only Afghan routes. Discoveries show that Hazaras are one of the lowest and Pashtuns one of the highest powers in Afghan society. People would automatically assume that there were only one or two different ethnic groups, which live in Afghanistan. However, there appears to be a great variety of different peoples living in Afghan society. All together, fourteen different ethnicities
conditions. Afghans are hardworking and to an extent non interfe... ... middle of paper ... ...e east with China which is about 76 kilometres. It has four major rivers. In the east it has Kabul which flows into the Indus River, in North it has Oxus (Amu Darya) which flows into the Aral Sea, Helmand in south-west and Morghab in the West. DEMOGRAPHY The population of Afghanistan was 28,395,716 in the year 2010 and it has reached Thirty One Million estimated in the year 2013 and it includes 2.6 million afghan
Introduction As we have come to know, the Huaorani people are among the fiercest hunting and gathering tribal people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. For a time they lived in complete isolation up until the 1950s when Evangelical Christian missionaries sought to convert them to Christianity. Since then, they have become an endangered people as the Christian missionaries had opened the gate to other forms of Western exploitation such as the crude oil company threatening their way of life. Most Huaorani
Glaciers as an Indicator of Climate Change Introduction: It is now a well-documented scientific fact that both the 20th and 21st centuries have experienced a general trend in terms of global warming. Scientific research and evidence clearly indicate that the earth’s surface temperatures are gradually increasing. There have been a variety of theories pertaining to the fundamental causes of global warming. However, one of the outstanding beliefs is that human activities are distinctively responsible
“They came, they sapped, they burnt, they slew, they plundered and they departed.” This was an eyewitness account concerning the Mongolian conquests between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers quoted by the eleventh century Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvaini. It has often been a common misconception that the Mongols were all consumed by savagery and that they followed no morals or ethics. Although the Mongol Conquests brought much devastation, the great economic and social impacts that occurred
astronomy. During his time of becoming a great polymath, he survived some unusual political changes such as change of six princes. There is not enough information about his early life available but from what it is known; khwarezm was located beyond “Amu Darya” river, a river that was called Oxus River at those times. Al-Biruni’s educator, Khwarezm-Shah was a member of the parliament or in better words dynasty that controlled and ruled the area. The dynasty that al-Biruni’s educator was a prince of was