https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28 By Eder Garcia and Bryan Herrera Period.1 en-us 2016-04-14 15:37:48 UTC 2025-11-03 17:22:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/brainstorm.jpg 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105941783 the dried-up seabed had become a graveyard for abandoned ships]]> 2016-04-15 04:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105941783 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105941857 thousands of people have left the region, and those who remain risk illness, or even death.]]> 2016-04-15 04:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105941857 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105942000 central Asian leaders now face one the earth's greatest environmental tragedies.]]> 2016-04-15 04:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105942000 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105942310 the aral sea receives most of its water from two rivers, Amu Darya and the Syr Darya]]> 2016-04-15 05:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105942310 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105942997 cotton growers used pesticides and fertilizers , these chemicals were being picked up by runoff not absorbed by the soil that runs into streams and rivers]]> 2016-04-15 05:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105942997 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105944323 scientists estimate that even to keep the lake at its present levels, you would have to remove 9 of the 18 million acres that are now used for farming.]]> 2016-04-15 05:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105944323 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105944903 in the city of Verkhoyansk, temps. have ranged from -90'f in the winter to 94'f in the summer-a span of 184 degrees.]]> 2016-04-15 05:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105944903 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945185 2016-04-15 05:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945185 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945186 Russia's harsh climate has caused difficulties for its inhabitants, but it has also, at times,come to their aid.]]> 2016-04-15 05:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945186 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945303 spring 1812, napoleon decided to extend his control over Russia.]]> 2016-04-15 05:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945303 347832 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945649 the project was a massive undertaking, the distance to covered was more than 5,700 miles, and the tracks had cross seven time zones]]> 2016-04-15 06:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/105945649 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106039484 One of the key events that happened was when the Aral sea began shrinking and losing water until their wasn't any left and this took a couple years so all the water was completely evaporated and their wasn't any left.]]> 2016-04-15 15:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106039484 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106040725 Another key event was when the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad began.It was important because crossing the Middle East was dangerous and slow so the Russian emperor ordered for a railroad to be constructed and it connected  Moscow to the Pacific Coast of Vladivostok.]]> 2016-04-15 15:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106040725 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106042826 The Aral sea receives most of its water from the two rivers The Amu Darya and The Syr Darya.Before the 1960s they recives over 13 cubic miles of water but in the 1950s they began taking large amounts of water out of the river and the Aral sea began losing water.]]> 2016-04-15 15:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106042826 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106042949 In the early 1800s, the armies of the french leader Napoleon Bonaparte were taking control of Russia.In the spring of 1812, Napoleon decided to extend his control over Russia.]]> 2016-04-15 15:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106042949 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106042998 Between 1891 and 1903, approximately 70,000 workers moves 77 million cubic feet of earth, cleared more than 100,000 acres of forest, and built bridges over several major rivers.]]> 2016-04-15 15:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106042998 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106043047 Ten years after the completion of the line in 1904, nearly five million settlers, mainly peasant farmers, had taken the railway from European Russia to settle in Siberia.]]> 2016-04-15 15:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106043047 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106043089 During the expansion, Russians made so much progress towards the east that they swallowed up a future U.S. state, Alaska.Russia had taken control of the territory by the late 18th century but did not sell it to the united states until 1867.]]> 2016-04-15 15:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106043089 342200 https://padlet.com/347832/r082oc2qgy28/wish/106043136 It is said "Like molten lava, they destroyed everything in their path".The Mongols controlled the region untill the 1500s, when ivan the Great, the powerful price of Moscow, put an end to their rule

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