burgers. The practice of fresh grinding meat is what customers can expect. When a customer orders a burger or steak, a loaded baked potato arrives with the meal. Port of Call is mainly known for a drink that they created known as Neptune’s Monsoon or just a Monsoon. It’s an old recipe used frequently as a last request by pirates condemned to walk the plank.…
Intense rain of monsoon put a shallow blanket of water across the landscape once in a year that gives relief to its inhabitants. Due to high water holding capacity of the clay, huge proportion of landscape of hundreds of miles gets waterlogged once. Heavy rain, forces the…
hit particularly hard by the cold temperatures and failed monsoon rains. The people of Yunnan faced starvation as the rice harvest was compromised for three years. However, the aftermath of this famine acted as a catalyst for the farmers of Yunnan to start planting opium poppies. This cash crop provided insurance from future failures and relieved their dependence on grain harvests. Bengal also suffered greatly from the failure of the monsoon rains in 1816. The lack of fresh water was responsible…
impact as the most complete early human skeleton ever found. His skeleton was found in Kenya by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984. Monsoons: For india, monsoons are vital as they provide the much needed moisture for agriculture. The monsoons are significant because they make the Himalayas act like a third pole and variations in there timing could mean floods or famine for India. The monsoons bring moisture from June to…
better religious enhancement, And better herbal substances 4 medicine or food products. Both networks did continue to spread and cause positive impacts on society and civilizations both did happen to change end ways of trading for example using monsoon winds to trade by sea, and using camels to cross deserts, and enrichment of social status and wealth. both of these trading…
The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world taking the shape of a capital ‘M’. The ocean itself covers twenty-six million square miles and it acts as a link to many important continents and regions around the world. The Indian trading network was established in 800 A.D. and was a place where people used trade routes for bulk trading. The Network extended from the coast of East Africa, to Arabia, to the Persian Gulf, India, across to Burma, down through the Malacca Strait that runs…
not pass. Therefore the cold damp air of the Himalayas is met with the warm dry air of southern India forming annual monsoons. Though these monsoons provide ample rainfall, their results can be catastrophic. From destroying crops to ruining entire cities, this yearly weather phenomena is a perfect example of how geography can affect a civilization. Historians suggest that these monsoons lead to the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization in 1800 BCE. Another civilization accustomed to…
This individual rose from turmoil and united different clans for a common purpose. Seen as a barbarian, but is a peace maker in the oddest of ways. Genghis Khan, the leader of the Mongols is famous for pillaging, destroying, and raping of towns who do not bow to his people. Genghis Khan may be known for his terror, but it is under his leadership that the world in the fourteenth century drastically changes. Under him a period of Pax Mongolia arose, there is a revival in land route trading, and…
located on the region known as South Asia or the Subcontinent of India. This region had fertile land due to the Indus, Ganges, and the Brahmaputra rivers. One of the most defining features was the seasonal monsoons. In October, the monsoons bring hot air that that kill crops and during May, the monsoons do the opposite by bringing wet air that brings floods that causes starvation. One interesting fact about the Indus Valley is that this civilization survived for 1,000 years then disappeared…
It is situated in tropical climate zone and has three seasons-Summer (mid-February to mid-May), Rainy (mid-May to mid-October) and Winter (mid-October to mid-February). The official cyclone season is in monsoon period and the high potential of cyclone formation is in pre-monsoon and post-monsoon periods. Cyclone Nargis struck on 2nd and 3rd of May 2008 in Myanmar and it became the devastated ever disaster in country experience due to the death toll (about 138,373) and losses (approximately 4.1…