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             Analysis: Life Expectancy is the age that you're expected to die at based on how far the country is developed. On the graph, the numbers represent the average age that the average person is going to die. Median age is the average age of the people in a certain country. The numbers on the graph represent the average age of the people of a country. Child Mortality Rate is the amount of kids that die per one thousand births. The numbers represent the amount of kids between zero and five years old die per one thousand births. Life expectancy and Child Mortality Rate go hand in hand. They both show how much a countries developed based on health standards, crime and murder rates, and if the country is in war. The Median age shows how much a countries developed based on the demographic transition scale. earlier in the scale more kids are being born, so that means a lower median age, but later in the scale less kids are being born which means a higher median age.

              The patterns that are noticed here are that the MDC's were able to develop more quickly due to not being colonized and also having a good location for developing due to coal, ports, and iron. The LDC's were starting to develop little later, but are very far behind due to colonization and their location. The reason that all the MDC's are slowing down in the second graph is due to most humans are going to have to die at some point and that not all medicine can stop it. The life expectancy isn't going to be able to go much higher since humans can't cure old age.

Crossing The Line GIS Activity

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The new countries that I have created are Somaliland, Somalia, and the Arab Union. Somalia is on the tip of the Horn of Africa and the Arab Union is on the Arabian Peninsula which is south Iraq and is separated from Iran by the Persian Gulf.
I believe that the Arab Union will form because of the cultural similarities of the countries on the Arabian Peninsula. For example, they all speak Arabian and they are all Muslims. I also believe that Somaliland will break away from Somalia because Somalia was controlled by Italy and Somaliland was controlled by Great Britain in the colonial period of Africa.
In the Somalia and Somaliland border, the border is a geometric boundary, but is based off of old cultural boundaries.. The Arab Union boundary is also a geometric boundary.
For the Arab Union, it will make a big difference for the smaller countries that join because Saudi Arabia is such a big country that is very wealthy and it would be a bigger economic power from all of the oil that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have. For Somaliland, it would give them a chance at being a good country that could make a difference in the world unlike the unstable country of Somalia that has a terrible form of government and is basically being controlled by Terrorist groups.

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