Jared Diamond, the author of ‘guns, germs and steel’ theory, aims to explain the material success of European civilization through the lenses of certain preconditions, including geography, use of steel, and immunity to germs. According to the author, a big part of Eurasia has very good agricultural potential due to...

1.       What are the major physical features of the country you chose? Iceland was formed by the spreading of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an area where the plates below the ocean, the North American and Eurasian plates, are moving apart. Hot magma rises and forms a plume, which pushed the island...

The term “Zomia”, derived from the word “zomi”, which means highlander in various Chino-Mizo-Kuki languages which exist in the area of India and Myanmar, (Mazard, 2014, 217) was coined by the contemporary Dutch historian Willem van Schendel to describe a large portion of Southeast Asia, crossing several nation-states, which, according...

A short documentary “Message in a Bottle” focuses on the problems and potential dangers that island flora and fauna have to face under the influence of globalization on the example of three islands, namely the Round Island, Samoa, and Jamaica. The Round Island lies in the Indian Ocean, twenty kilometers...

Italy is a country which is located in South Europe. It juts south from the Alps and extends into the Mediterranean Sea. The country is mainly composed of a slender, long boot shaped peninsula. In addition, it consists of its two main islands, the Sardinia and Sicily. Its neighboring countries...