Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Summary

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1) The regions that lie in the tropics in the eastern hemisphere are Africa, southern Arabia, most of India, and all of the southeast Asian mainland and islands.
2) The climate of the tropics regions in the eastern hemisphere are diverse because the lands around the India Ocean had rainy and dry seasons, showing how the alternating winds known as monsoons, were an influence.
3) It would be inaccurate to say that the Pygmy people best represent the people of the tropics because there was a small number of Pygmy people in the forests of Central Africa. Living there allowed them to capture their prey through dense undergrowth. Hunting was also used in the Himalayas and in some desert environments.
4) The Aztecs and Incas used fishing and boating …show more content…
Mansa Musa was praised for his government by Ibn Battuta.
10) The arrival of Islam in India was considered to be more violent than its arrival in West Africa because the divided states of northwest India were not protected from raids by Afghan warlords. The raiders plundered Hindu and Buddhist temples for their prized possessions like gold and jewels, kidnapped women, and mass-murdered India defenders.
11) The iron stirrup and disunity played an important role because the iron stirrup helped Muslim warriors to be able to fire powerful crossbows at their enemies, while riding on the backs of their galloping horses. But disunity played a role of being able to unite the people, because they were exposed to raids, the people worked together in order to fight back.
12) Islam was not as widely embraced by the indigenous people of India as it was by the people of Africa because Muslim invaders gained control over the Hindu princes and chiefs in northern India, and also conquered northern India in multiple military expeditions. All these events led to Islam's empire being the largest state in
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