... surrounded by the Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Sicilian Sea and the Ionian Sea in the south, and the Adriatic Sea in the east. As a result, Italy has a very temperate climate but varies a great deal according to how far one is from the sea or ... the mountains. This beautiful country is characterized predominately by two mountain ranges: the Alps and the Apennines. The Alps extend over 600 miles from east to west with peaks rising to over 14,000 feet. These mountainous regions are ideal for skiing in the winter months and great for excursions, ...

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One of the principal reasons for exploration was the urge to find new routes to East Asia. In the 1400s, merchants had brought many goods to Europe from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The products' demand raised the desire for commerce. European countries were mainly interested in spices from Asia. They had learned how to use spices and to conserve food ... the Catholic Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain to finance Christopher Columbus' journey. They entered the territory known as the United States through Florida and established a vast empire in North and South America. They spread Spain's...

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... race in its present form, Europe appears to have been late in the field. It is currently widely accepted that as modern human beings emerged from Africa some 100,000 years ago, this new species spread eastward, through Asia, even to Australia, before any of its members entered what must, to ... a mystery. After this happened about 35,000 years ago, some 1200 generations were to pass before civilization, in the form of farming, spreading from the Middle East, began to supplant the hunter-gatherer economy of the Stone Age inhabitants of Europe. Europe was not a particularly hospitable envir...

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