The Sizzling Sahara This is a short story of two good friends who have known each other all of their lives. They go on an adventure together to test their friendship by travelling across the Sahara desert and dealing with the many problems associated with it. …We eventually made it to the start of our expedition, although getting here was our own mini expedition. It was around 12 noon when Dave and I began our journey across the infamous Sahara dessert. We had been planning our journey
Sahara Desert The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest desert area. The word Sahara comes from the Arabic word sahra’, meaning desert. It extends from the Africa’s Atlantic Ocean side to the Red Sea and consists of the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan. It is about 5,200 miles long. Overall, the Sahara Desert covers 3,500,000 square miles. The geography of the desert is varied. In the west, the Sahara is rocky with varied elevation. It
1994 in Morocco, a runner named, Mauro Prosperi, was lost during a race through the Sahara Desert and survived 9 days alone. During this time, he showed many survivor traits by doing what was necessary to stay alive. The Sahara is tough to survive in due to intense weather and potential predators. Mauro was alone and unprepared with no food, water or shelter. I believe Mauro Prosperi survived 9 days in the Sahara desert due to a combination of luck, survival knowledge, and his strong will to live
The Sahara covers most of Algeria and Libya, and parts of Nigeria and Mali. Since the Sahara receives very little rainfall most of the population residing here live in oasis, which is a part of the desert where water resides. Even though this area is only about eight hundred miles long, it is how people are able to survive raise crops and animals in the Sahara. The desert is very hot and dry and has an average temperature of eighty-six
The dispute over Western Sahara dates back to 1975 and is Africa’s longest-running territorial dispute. Western Sahara had been a Spanish colony since 1884. Although Spain surrendered the territory in 1975, Western Sahara failed to gain national independence. Instead, Mauritania and Morocco filled the void, and Mauritania ceded its claim to Morocco in 1976. The nationalists in the region responded by forming the Polisario in 1973. Supported by the Algerian government, which has a longstanding rivalry
Africa was isolated geographically by the Sahara Desert. The isolation made by the Sahara Desert has affected trade, religion, and trade within Africa. Trade in Africa was impacted by the Sahara Desert because it prevented goods from civilizations residing under the Sahara Desert to reach North Africa. Religion was affected by Africa's isolation because new religious ideas could not reach part of Africa due to the Sahara Desert. The impact made by the affect on transportation was that it had caused
The role of trade in the rise and fall in Ghana With regards to the given question it would be a fair evaluation to agree that the rise and fall of trade in ancient Ghana was largely attributed to a number of factors. Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically, racially, or in any other way, related to modern Ghana. It lies about four hundred miles North West of modern Ghana. Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern Northern Senegal and Southern Mauritania. As mentioned above
Three Herbivores: Dromedary Camel, Dama Gazelle, and Desert Beetle C. Two Omnivores: Fennec Fox and Rüppell's fox D. Two Carnivores: Deathstalker Scorpion and Desert Eagle Owl E. Two Decomposers: Bacteria and Fungi F. Two Scavengers: Spotted Hyena and Sahara Desert Ants The first organism is an herbivore and is called the Dromedary Camel. Possible current limiting factors are that there might too much rain in the desert or too little or none at all. Climate and precipitation are abiotic factors. Too
they became master sailors and developed a large trading network to be able to trade with others. The climate was always hot and dry, which sometimes affected the growth of the crops for that season. In Ancient Egypt they use the Nile River and the Sahara Desert in some many ways that benefited them. Ancient Egypt was divided into two land different land, the black land and red land. The black land was the fertile land that the Nile River made and the red land was the desert of Egypt. They use the
earliest of these mature civilizations were in West Africa. In a vast region south of the Sahara, Africans organized kingdoms which in time became great empires. This region is called the Sudan (a word meaning "land of the Blacks" in Arabic) The Sudan was important in the early history of Black Africa because the Africans first practiced agriculture in this region, and thus became the first people south of the Sahara to fashion and use iron tools and weapons. They were also among the first people in Africa
geographic factors have shaped the way these regions developed throughout history. The Sahara desert affected the development of North Africa. The Sahara’s large temperature range and small supply of water can make the region difficult to thrive upon. However, it is not impossible. As stated in document 2, temperatures can reach up to 120 degrees fahrenheit and supplies of water are scant. Journeying through the Sahara was very difficult until the camel was introduced for travel. As stated in document
Elsie Reinemer Positive Psychology & Personal Resiliency Final Paper Final Paper: Gratitude Introduction “Gratitude defies easy classification. It has been conceptualized as an emotion, an attitude, a moral virtue, a habit, a personality trait, or a coping response. The word gratitude is derived from the Latin root gratia, meaning grace, graciousness, or gratefulness. All derivatives from this Latin root “have to do with kindness, gener- ousness, gifts, the beauty of giving and receiving,
It took Jordaan and I about fifth teen - twenty minutes to eat because we would talk to each other and eat simultaneously. Once we were finished with our food, we decided that neither of us wanted to walk all the way back to Jordaan’s house in the Sahara Desert type weather. We ended up waiting on Nikki and the daycare kids to finish which was going to be sometime so we went into the school’s
and Sahel's environment of Sahara determine how people in that area survive. The Sahara desert has one of the harshest environments in the world. The Oasis has so many living things that could not survive without it, including humans. And finally, the Sahel which may not be as bad as the Sahara but still shapes the way some humans live. In order for humans like us to survive, they have to adapt, to survive on any resource they can get and use. The Desert of the Sahara is home to one of the harshest
Africa is the second-largest and most tropical continent in the world. Africa is a continent that has been broken down into many countries. Due to the large amount of countries established in Africa it causes this continent to be very diverse within peoples skin color, religion, and language. Throughout this paper, I will be focusing exclusively on the similarities that are found amongst the Maasai and Tuareg people. In the books, The World of a Maasai by Tepilit Ole Saitoti and A Nomad in Two Worlds
The Mali Kingdom used to be one of the biggest empires in West African History. Its height when so far it went from the Atlantic Coast to the Sahara Desert. The Mali Empire was an empire in West Africa from 1230 to 1670. The Kingdom Of Mali was first founded when Sundiata Keita defeated Ghana and captured its capital in 1240. Keita was called upon to free the Mali people from the rule of the king of the Sosso Empire. Later after Keita defeated Ghana, Mali was then established in the mid-1200s
of itself. It sits onn the northwestern corner of Africa, or in The Maghreb. It is tucked away from the rest of the continent and the world by the soaring Atlas Mountains which sit an at over 7,638 feet tall, in the South East you will find the Sahara Desert, which only engulfs 10 cities with its sand dunes stretching the size of the U.S. Its climate, geography, culture and history are closely related to the Mediterranean Culture than to the rest of the African countries. For this reason tourist
the surrounding area and make use of it, finding an oasis as a water source, trading goods with nomads, and much more. Although it may seem impossible at first, but learning what actions are necessary in the Saharan region can make it possible. The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world and the climate is usually very hot and dry there. The average rainfall in the desert is about less than five inches per year. But, humans have found ways to deal
The plane descended lower upon the pristine land which is known to be the Sahara desert. The expansive dry fields contained a myriad of antelopes cascading down the dry fields and floating to the crystal clear pools of delicately placed water. The displaced minute huts were dispersed among the endless plains dotting the inconsistent landscape. I began to reflect upon this trip as I prepared to land in Accra, Ghana, the origination of my roots. Conflicting thoughts infiltrated my mind concerning the
political organizations are formed through age, skill sets, and residency. The separation of members of the society can determine the age set of the individual, and the political power that they wield in certain social situations. The Masai tribe is sub-Sahara Africa defines the role of age sets for men, which determine boys, warriors, and elders in the community,. Often, these tribal members will be separated from the community to guard the herds as part of the non-kinship rites of passage for young men