The infant mortality rate in Cape Verde is 18.5 per 1,000 live births according to , and the maternal mortality rate is 53.7 deaths per 100,000 live births. The AIDS prevalence rate is low: There are ...
The name of the country stems from the nearby Cap-Vert, on the Senegalese coast, which in its turn was originally named "Cabo Verde" when it was sighted by Portuguese explorers in 1444, a few years be ...
On land, the league was most commonly defined as three miles, though the length of a mile could vary from place to place and depending on the era. At sea, a league was three nautical miles (about 5.6 ...
The meridian through Greenwich, England, also called the Prime Meridian, was set at zero degrees of longitude, while other meridians were defined by the angle at the center of the earth between where ...
There are two principal duopoly models, Cournot duopoly and Bertrand duopoly:The Cournot model, which shows that two firms assume each other's output and treat this as a fixed amount, and produce in t ...
The terms "Old World" vs. "New World" are meaningful in historical context and for the purpose of distinguishing the world's major ecozones, and to classify plant and animal species that originated th ...
Main articles: Mission (Christian) and List of Christian MissionariesA Christian missionary can be defined as "one who is to witness across cultures". The Lausanne Congress of 1974, defined the term, ...
Before receiving support for his voyage from Isabella and Ferdinand, Columbus had first approached King John II of Portugal. His scholars and navigators reviewed Columbus's documentation, determined t ...
Around 1312 Genoese navigator Lancelotto Malocello came upon the Canary Islands. The Portuguese travelled there in 1341 both to trade and raid. By 1346 slave raiding was occurring. However, the first ...
By the summer of 1452 Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II had completed the Rumelihisar? fortress on the western or European side of the Bosphorus. Located several miles north of Constantinople, it commanded th ...
Pre-Columbian Venezuela had an estimated indigenous population of one million, with the Andean region being the most densely populated area. The two tribes lived peacefully in what are today the state ...
Historically, slash-and-burn cultivation is practiced throughout much of the world, in grasslands as well as woodlands.During the Neolithic Revolution, which included agricultural advancements, groups ...
The climate change of the Llanos is extreme. During the rainy season from May to October, parts of the Llanos can flood up to a meter. This turns the woodlands and grassland into a temporary wetland, ...
Mariche is the name of a former native Venezuelan tribe.Not much information from them as a tribe has survived to the present day. It is known that they lived in what is now called Filas de Mariches, ...
Caquetio, Caiquetio, or Caiquetia, were natives of northwestern Venezuela, living along the shores of Lake Maracaibo at the time of the Spanish conquest. They moved inland to avoid enslavement by the ...
