.... the fact that they were built horribly. They started from the Guadalquivir River, with plenty of weapons, but not enough food or water, and a diverse crew from many nations. During their journey, it began to get colder and colder, for they were moving south. The ships were in terrible shape, and some attempted mutinies even occured. The Santiago, which was set out on a different route, sank, and with it the crew and many provisions. They finally arrived at Puerto San Julian, where, according to Winchester, they found "patagones" which means big feet. They captured several "patagones" and named the land Patagonia. On October 21, 1520, Magellan final .....

.... The northern part of Greece is a temperate climate where is it usually cool and wet. The southern part is a Mediterranean climate where it is usually warm, but winters and mildly wet and summers are hot and dry. The thousands of island are also a Mediterranean climate, except a little bit hotter. Location- The relative location of Greece is: it is surrounded by Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea, plus the Mediterranean Sea. The absolute location of Greece is: it from 20° East-26½° East and 41½° North- 35° North. Natural Resources- Greece is a very poor country and doesn't have any natural sources of real .....

.... River. Shorter and more direct routes were developed along some parts of the trail, but they were often more difficult. Originally, like many other main routes in the United States, sections of the had been used by the Native Americans and trappers. As early as 1742, part of the trail in Wyoming had been blazed by the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye; the Lewis and Clark Expedition, between 1804 and 1806, made more of it known. The German-American fur trader and financier John Jacob Astor, in establishing his trading posts, dispatched a party overland in 1811 to follow the trail of these explorers. Later, mountai .....

.... Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies (Duggan 117). Julius Caesar was to become one of the greatest generals, conquering the whole of Gaul. In 58 BC, Caesar became governor and military commander of Gaul, which included modern France, Belgium, and portions of Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years, Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman legions and tribes in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire (Duggan 84). Caesar's prin .....

.... therefore the Shang dynasty become cruel, immoral and tyrant because they also wants to control everything in the empire. But, by (221 bc) the Shang dynasty faced the last rebellion, in King Wen found the Chou dynasty which believed that heaven gave a mandate to rule, which sanctioned the political authority of the kings. During this dynasty the laws were in based of uniform regulations, they were well-field system, also during this dynasty the Confucianism has began, with Master Kong (K'ung, Confucius, 551-479 B.C.) he did not intend to found a new religion, but to interpret and try to revived the unnamed religion of the .....

.... was based on agricultural production, which reached levels that Japan had never experienced before. This is also the period in which Japan’s distinct culture reached its apex. The number of historical records, right down to the local level, make Tokugawa perfect for studying (Lehmann 124). Not only is it of interest for its own sake, it is also important to study the period for better insight into the countries modernization. Before the country modernized, the system ruling over the civilization was one very similar to those which once ruled over European societies. The periods preceding the Tokugawa Japan were known specifically by their .....

.... He later refined this concept by viewing all such scientific theories as secondary attempts to describe a reality in which concepts such as singularities have no meaning, and where space and time form a closed surface without boundary. He also discovered that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. During his work in Cambridge, Stephen s held the chair as Lucasian professor of mathematics which was once held by Newton. still clearly insists that what we think of as real time has a beginning at the Big Bang, some ten to twenty billion years ago. And no one who knows much of any .....

.... many challenges facing the Bush administration as to the manner in which they would handle this first major international crisis. The Bush administration had to develop a consensus of the major remaining powers, and appear not acting alone in its response to President Saddam Hussein’s actions of invading Kuwait. They also yearned to keep Israel from being involved so as not to alienate the remaining Middle Eastern nations. Lastly, they faced a domestic dilemma, in that much of the American public had significant reservations about involving U.S. troops involved in a foreign conflict. There remained a bad taste of Vietnam among the American publi .....

.... and then leave on their own. The American farmer in the south needed more control on their workers and needed to know that they ( the workers ) weren't going to just leave and start up their own farm for themselves. Thus the manipulation of slave labor became the answer for capitalism, and from the use of black slave labor, tension began to rise between the slaves brought from Africa, and the land holders of the South. Tension between Slaves and land owners have been strong in the South for many years, and one might say that the cause of it is the ways of which the Black slaves of plantations and farms were treated. The founders of the Carolina .....

.... produced for the soldiers. Women began to play important roles in Canada's economy. While Canada's men were fighting, women picked where they left off in the wor kforce. They were key in the war effort, as well as keeping Canada's economy running. Resource industries in Canada also expanded and Canada's marketplace began to grow. During the war, demands for Canadian goods went up in Europe and in Canada. Increased demand caused inflation on products in Canada to skyrocket, as prices on most products nearly doubled. The workers wages went up as well, but they didn't keep up with the inflationary prices. Workers therefore had to do with less. Du .....