Salinas And Similarities Between China And Salinas

The Europeans who dreamt of conquering Asia were under the impression that Asia was a blank slate, isolated with no history and traditions. However, that is their misconception for Asia from 500-1500 CE “was a vast world of contrast… [and] bewildering variety” thriving with many empires, capital cities, religions, and cultures (Gordon, 177). Because of this, Asia then can be classified as a compilation of many key eras such as the Medieval Age in China and the Golden Age. Such prosperous times for Asian states and empires are to be accredited to the notable networking in Asia at this time period. People who utilized the establishment of fundamental institutions such as the religions of Islam and Buddhism and various modes of trading and traveling were able to facilitate the diffusion of ideas and cultures therefore indirectly contributing to the overall connection of Asian states and empires during 500-1500 CE.

In his book, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner’s main thesis is to show the inefficiency, greed, and inherent difficulty in the American West’s never-ending struggle to turn its unwelcoming desert into a lush garden. One of his main sub-points is that the West is not meant to support millions of people. It has a wide range of geographic challenges throughout the entire region. Its inconsistency and diversity is a primary cause of its water problems. For example, Reisner notes that the West consists of “plains so arid that they could barely support bunchgrass; deserts that were fiercely hot and fiercely cold; streams that flooded a few weeks each year and went dry the rest; forests with trees so large it might take days to bring one down; . . . hail followed by drought followed by hail;” (23).

With powerful militaries, vast amounts of territory, and millions of people of diverse cultures and roles operating under an organized civil bureaucracy, the Han Dynasty and ancient Rome were truly empires of great power and influence in Afro-Eurasia between 300 BCE to 300 CE. While the methods of gaining the position of globalizing empires were similar for the two empires, the social obligations possessed by the people of various social classes differed for the empires, leading to contrasting perspectives towards the empires’ governments. ALTHOUGH THE HAN DYNASTY AND ANCIENT ROME WERE BOTH EMPIRES OF IMMENSE POWER, LAND, AND INFLUENCE SUSTAINED BY PEOPLE OF ALL SOCIAL CLASSES, THE SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE RULERS, SOLDIERS,

The Central Valley Project was a tremendous government project to irrigate the Central Valley, a 450 mile stretch of fertile land that has become very important to agriculture. This valley could not have been able to grow the 230 different types of produce it does today without the Central Valley Project. The government decided to construct a system to irrigate the valley. The author writes that the Central Valley was very dry and considered a desert in 1933. So, the government began a series of construction projects to build aqueducts, canals, and pump plants. The text states that the government directed water from the Colorado River to the valley. Due to this, the Central Valley can cultivate 230 kinds of crops as the center of American

A nation with a lot to lose. The huge, industrial and overpopulated country we know as China, is going through a water scarcity crisis. North China’s lack of water affects more of the region than anyone can imagine. Causing negative problems for food supply, economic development, political stability, and international relations, including drying up their major rivers. What are creating these complications? Global Warming, Urbanization and Population Growth, and Industrialization are the three main causes of China’s water crisis. Of these, the biggest driver is Industrialization.

The San Joaquin River is the backbone of the San Joaquin Valley. The valley is not only the nation's most agricultural area but it is also one of the entire worlds. Millions depend on the crops that come form this luscious valley. The river has gone through many drastic changes over its illustrious lifetime. Once it was a magnificent 350 miles long it is now one of the nation's ten most endangered rivers. The river once flowed with enough water to support steam ships and a salmon migration it now goes completely dry in some areas. The river does not have enough water to support itself any more and must take in water from various other places, such as the Pacific Ocean which

When it came to water like the Romans Chinese were controlling it like putty in their hands. The main thing was the grand canal which brought water from one city to another and acted as a road way. The Grand Canal is the world 's longest man-made waterway, being 1,800 kilometers long. The canal connects the present cities of Beijing in the north and Hangzhou in the south, which served as dynastic capitals in the past, and contains 24 locks and 60 bridges. Since most of China 's major rivers flow from west to east, the fact that the Grand Canal runs north and south provides it as an important connector between the Yangtze River valley and the Yellow River valley. A good example of their care for water is in Document 1 “I request that you establish water conservation offices in each district and staff them with people who are experienced in the ways of water.” When it says this you can tell how much they care about the water. Both societies clearly had a good grip on the control of water, for their benefit and their pleasure.

In 1848, the first Chinese came and of course in the nest year participated in the gold rush. Like the Chilean in “Diario de un viaje a California”, Chinese also came here for mining. After, they also established Chinese school and churches and create their own lifestyle. In “The City That Was”, Will Irwin wrote, “The Chinese lived their own lives in their own way and settled their own quarrels with the revolvers of their highbinders”(453).

With irrigation has imorovped so much.So how does geography impact the development of irrigation it changes because with it might look like nuclear fallout and maybe somethings can live there but it’s not this place might seem like a desert but it’s not we have irrigation which is half of the jobs in Southern Arizona which is a good thing. So what was the various costs to irrigation they were many costs for the Southern Arizona irrigation projects. Post construction one of the cost for these are the wages they were getting payed for if they skilled or unskilled. Also there was economic impact the jobs that was coming in because irrigation projects which made really big “Part of this impact is in the form of annual tax contributions, which are estimated at $32 million.” This shows that how much big of an impact this was. One of the biggest thing that help with irrigation was the gold rush from the citrus groves the profit was around “a net profit in 1925 of $800” this helped so much with the

In The Great Thirst, Norris Hundley offers a comprehensive view of the aboriginal waterscape and how early Native Americans managed the water resources available to them prior to contact with Europeans. He describes a California with abundant water, though not necessarily through rainfall. Depending on the location in California, water can be found in rainfall, runoff from snow melt, and from underground aquifers. At the time of first European contact with the area, these aquifers resulted in underground springs and even fountains coming to the surface of the earth. He discusses rivers, lakes, and marshlands that were year-round, but whose size fluctuated according to the seasons. Furthermore, he discusses how water resources could vary greatly in the area. For example, Hundley discusses both El Nino and La Nina and how they result in fluctuations in precipitation. However, more importantly, Hundley discusses longer periods of drought, which seem to operate independently of the El Nino/ La Nina cycle, and can cause significant shortages in water availability. He discusses the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers and the roles that they play in the waterscape of the area, as well as the numerous underground water rivers that play pivotal roles as well. Finally, Hundley discusses how the source of the water, the Pacific Ocean, creates the precipitation that falls over the California area, resulting

There was a river. The first time I went to my aunt’s farm in rural China I was seven, and the only memory I could recall was the powerful, roaring river I needed to cross. There was a river. The second time I visited their farm, I also saw how all the local farmers and various other farming conglomerates used the river to develop the land and feed the thirsty quinoa and corn. There was a river. I went to her farm once again this past summer, and was shocked to see that the once strong and raging river was reduced to nothing more than a trickling stream due to overuse and a worsening environmental climate. She was forced to move to the impoverished city of ChiFeng and now has to do menial labor for her meager three dollars an hour.

Here in California we are constantly exposed to the richness and grandiose of Chinese culture from buildings inspired by Han Dynasty architecture to simply the material of silk first utilized in China during the second millennium BCE. Growing up in a place with so much Chinese influence has broadened my understanding on such a unique style and heritage.

One of the largest geographic physical structures in the United States is the Colorado River. Human activity and its interaction with this great river have an interesting history. The resources provided by the river have been used by humans, and caused conflict for human populations as well. One of these conflicts is water distribution, and the effects drought conditions have played in this distribution throughout the southwestern region. Major cities such as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other communities in the southwest depend on the river. It provides water for over 20 million people, irrigation for 2 million acres of land, four thousand megawatts of hydroelectric energy, and over twenty million annual visitors for

Since the beginning of time, water has played a key role in societies all over the world. The earliest recorded civilizations have all been found along large river valleys, such as, the Indus River in India and the Yellow River in China. Water is an essential part of life; it does not just sustain the life of all human beings around the globe, but also sustains the life of every living thing known to this Earth. All of the major cities that we know today are surrounded by large river systems that supply its people with the means to survive in that region. These rivers also link our different communities together and allow us to prosper, but these rivers are being taken advantage of. Our once great rivers are falling victim to pollution and

The Yellow River is located in Qinghai, China. In the present day it is not very dense in population. It is a very high-altitude called the Tibetan Plateau. It is place of strong Tibetan and Mongol cultural traditions in present day China. The Yellow River is known by all Chinese people as the “mother river” (Wu). It is also agreed upon by almost all Chinese people that it is the cradle of Chinese civilization and the spiritual home of the Chinese people (Zhou). The Yellow River is the symbol of the Chinese nation, the spirt of the Chinese people, but most importantly civilization itself.