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    Roman Empire. Currently, Venice is struggling with adapting to climate change. Slowly but surely, rising sea levels will devour the city of Venice, leaving the people with an inevitable problem to solve. Often, Venice experiences severe flooding due to large incoming tides, heavy rainfall, and wind. In 1966 Venice experienced its worst flood in history. The Venetian Lagoon raised 6 feet above sea level, causing a great deal of damage to the city’s infrastructure and architectural marvels.

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    She was determined to see all the physical features including the Dead Sea. She has always dreamed of seeing the Dead Sea, because it isn’t actually a sea. She was so surprised that made up of 33.7% salinity, making the Dead Sea is one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water. She also wanted to go see the Red Sea, because the Red Sea is just over 190 miles across at its widest point, and about 1,200 miles in length. On top of all that she wanted to see the Tigris River because she heard that

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    water started to leek in the boat. I started to craw away from the side of the boat that the sea water was coming in at. The water started to fill the bout up fast, men were pleading for oxygen and help. Before I knew it I was swimming in the water that flooded in the boat, I took one huge gasp of air and went under the

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    the impact on geography. The climate, the region, and the sea are all important aspects of the geography of Athens. Athens is a polis of Attica which is surrounded by the Gulf of Evoikos, the Saronic Gulf, Aegean Sea, and the Gulf of Corinth; therefore makes it a peninsula. The proximity of the sea helped to shape the economy. This affected the politics and society because it allowed them to contact people surrounding the Mediterranean. Seas nearby is very privileged to the advantage of food, and

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    of those things. There are 3 trade routes the north,south, and sea route. The northern route is split in two routes one went through palestine than along the mediterranean coast and the second one went through megiddo and hazor upstream along litani river then downstream along orontes river. The southern route ran along Asiut out of the oases of kharga and then dungul to the tomas somewhere in nubia. the sea route was a link over sea

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    Spain one of the accepted cultural norms is nudity, given the heavy Mediterranean climate and hot summers. This may seem very strange to you given it is also illegal here in our country but is legal and not to uncommon in Spain. This has been a developed aspect of their culture in Spain given their region of the world. Spain is comprised of mostly rugged hills, mountains, and coastline running along both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. “Mainland Spain is the second highest and mountainous

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    Geography’s Impact on Culture and Society When studying ancient civilizations and the beginning societies in the world, the geography has shaped its story significantly. Depending on the location of the civilization society, whether or not water was nearby was crucial for its survival. With trade networks, metals, foods, and languages were spread. Weapons were able to be formed from these metals which led to a stronger military. Mountain ranges formed the boundaries of civilizations. Geography

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    with this, the art within Spain saw the development of impressionism, and post-impressionism. One impressionist artist, Jaoquin Sorolla, a Valencia native, became famous for depicting beautiful beach landscapes and the simplicity of life on the Mediterranean. However, as time past and society changed, his views shifted from idolizing to critiquing certain subjects. This essay will focus on two paintings, Return from Fishing, painted by Sorolla in 1889, and And They Still Say Fish is Expensive

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    and ripple effects. One such example is migration, which is simply a flow of what earth has an abundance of: humans. That is the subject of this investigation, specifically migration in the Mediterranean region, an area of the world so flooded with immigrants and refugees that it is in crisis. The Mediterranean Sea has several places where Africa and Europe come very close to meeting. There is the Strait of Gibraltar, Istanbul, and the distance from Tunisia to

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    Ancient Greece had to face to the positives, geography has always had a great influence on Greece and how the people there survived. Two big positives being the climate which was perfect for growing valuable olive trees and another positive being the seas that surrounded Greece and allowed the Greeks to trade and help them in many other ways. Two big negatives being the rocky, mountainous terrain and another negative being the common volcano eruptions and earthquakes. Although Ancient Greece had its

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