Honeck+Ethipoia


 * __Ethiopia__** by Jake Honeck

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Ethiopia is located at 8.3000 Degrees North and 89.1167 Degrees East in the world. Ethiopia is located in Africa The Capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is has the Great Rift Valley in it. Ethiopia is also very close to the equator. || || Place Ethiopia has one of the most important landmarks in Africa. It is known as the Great Rift Valle y. The Great Rift Valley is what is slowly is making Africa Separate into two big land masses divided apart into two. It will eventually make the eastern part of Africa split off from the main continent of Africa. The Great Rift Valley goes straight through the middle of Ethiopia. Ethiopia also is mainly highlands. It is called the Ethiopian highlands. It is the largest continues altitude of the continent with little of its surface under 1500 m. It is also known as the Roof of Africa. Regions / Comparing and Contrast to United States Ethiopia is very different then the United States. Ethiopia not much people can read or write only 50% of men and 35% of Women can read and write. In the United States 99.99% can read and write. In the United States are not religious if they are they are mostly Christian it is like that today it used to be everyone was religious but in America you have freedom know. In Ethiopia most people are religious they mainly have freedom but they are still less developed that makes them believe in it more because it is also a hobby for them that doesn't cost money because most people are poor and farm. In the United States almost everyone has computer and technology because we are more developed and have more money. In Ethiopia most people are poor and don't own any electronics, 1 out of every 4 own a single electronic device. In Ethiopia the life expectancy of a female is 61 years old and male 58 years old it is that old because they do not have very good medications unlike America they have very good medications in america the female life expectancy is 81 years old and male is 76 years old.
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 * Where the High Lands are || Topographic map of Ethiopia ||

Movement In Ethiopia most people do not own cars they use bikes to go form place to place or they walk they do not have many places with public transport only in big city they do. In Ethiopia transports lots of foods because most family all they do is farm, they keep what they need to survive then they sell the rest to company that package and send them to different countries for money. They do not just send one specific kind of crop because they can grow many crops there and some only wealthy farmers can farm good crops that sell for lots of money and not so wealthy farmers farm the cheaper plants to farm that can also provide to them. Many people do not sell there crops they only farm enough to live on. The farming mainly holds there economy because all the sales and almost everyone farms.

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They have almost killed off most there rare animals because they had a civil war and they hunt for food and kill the animals some examples are Ethiopian Wolf and Walia Ibex. Ethiopians mine for silver, gold and small sources of platinum they are slowly using up all there raw materials they are taking from the earth they do that because sometimes it is easy to start a small mine and make lots of money but if u want to make a big mine it costs lots of money there for most are not very big. They cut down lots of trees because they need to use it for heat to cook there food and warm there homes there for not many trees are left in the mountains and it is harder for people to find them. because of the civil war they had lots of people die so there population died a little bit and since. Ethiopia was the first independent country in Africa they are a little bit more developed then other contrary in Africa.