Essays on Southwest Asia

North Africa and Southwest Asia realm has a profound and diverse history and is considered “the scene of several of the world's great ancient civilizations, based in its river valleys and basins”. The importance and impact of this geographic realm is claimed to be highly influential and prominent: “from this realm's culture hearths diffused ideas, innovations, and technologies that changed the world” (Nijman et. al., 2004). Therefore this essay aims to analyze the impact and effects of its major geographic qualities, focusing on the two following ones: population distribution and world religions. The factor of population distribution is highly ...

Question Forum 4

The online news article I have chosen came from The New York Times, dated December 22, 2014. It is entitled CDC head says fight on Ebola will be long, written by Denise Grady. The geographical scope of the article includes the African region. It is a report on both the possibility and threat of the Ebola spread. The director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is hopeful about preventing the epidemic. Noevertheless, he remains realistic in fighting the virus. Recently, The World Health Organization has accounted 19,340 cases with over 7, ...

Introduction

The human species are claimed to have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. According to history, years ago people used to be nomadic pastoralist who moved from one place to another thus did not have a permanent home. A transition occurred, which caused the people to change their nomadic lifestyle where they used to hunt and gather fruits and began doing agriculture. This transition caused them to change and start staying in one place. The transition from the old ways of nomadic movement to the point where the people are actually staying in one place is what is described ...