Mason Freburger 12/12/19 Introduction to Migration Migration is a seasonal movement of animals from one region to another. Immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Emigrant is a person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another. Push/Pull Factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them. Most people migrate because of economic reasons. People also migrate because of the push and pull factors which is when they get pushed out of their state and then pulled back into another. Migratory trends that are around the world are that there are 150.3 million migrant workers, 258 million international migrants were counted in 2017, and that there are 4.8 million international students that were counted in 2016.
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Mason Freburger 12/4/19 1)According to Jared Diamond, what allowed Europeans to develop the power necessary to conquer (take over) large portions of the world? Geography having the most productive crops because they would grow so fast and animals that ate and were kept healthy allowed Europeans to develop guns, germs, and steel, and ultimately, to take over the world slowly. 2)Why were the Europeans who settled the South African cape(tip) so successful? Describe two reasons. The temperature and the climate in the South African cape is nearly identical as what the Europeans had at home. Because the Cape and Europe have a basically the same latitude which is the distance from the equator. They can grow the same types of plants and raise the same types of farm animals in Africa as they did in Europe. 3)How did disease allow the Europeans to conquer the native populations in the Americas and in the African cape? European...
Mason Freburger 12/2/19 1. At the time that the Spanish conquistadores invaded the Inca Empire, they were armed with state of the art weaponry. Describe this weaponry. They were armed with horses which mad them look like half men half beast and also body armor, guns, and steel swords . 2. What is Jared Diamond’s explanation for why the Spanish had advanced to steel swords while Inca’s were still making tools and weapons from bronze? Because Europe was once geographically shut to the Fertile Crescent, they inherited the 7,000 years of steel science that had been created there. It took them forever to get the science down for them to create the longest and sharpest swords. 3. How did the battle tactics used by the Spanish conquistadors help the small army defeat the Inca army that outnumbered it by the thousands? The Spaniards begin by shocking the Incas, firing their...