Canals

Beijing in the north and Hangzhou in the south.

It does not connect Asia to Africa. The Suez Canal is a short-cut pathway from the ships carrying goods from Europe and America to the Eastern part of the world. It provides less costs for exporting goods and less time for travelling long distance.

A signed contract with the people of Panama and United States. It started off as United States owning the entire Panama Canal zone and then over the years we signed an agreement with Panama that in 2000, we would give up the panama canal and Panama would have total control of it.

Canals link between bodies of water; improveaccess, communication, and transportation; and thereby increase business. For example, the Erie Canal of New York State links all of the shipping and stopping points of Lake Erie with those of the Hudson River. When it started up operations, the Canal made it possible for businesses to more than double their range of activities. For businesses that previously operated only by way of the Hudson River had clear, convenient access to Lake Erie, and vice versa. Likewise, the Panama Canal of Latin America links all of the shipping and stopping points along the Atlantic and Caribbean coastlines of the United States with those along the country's Pacific coastlines.

Not all canals were built in Victorian times. Most canals were built between 1750 and 1850 but some were outside this period. There are still around 2000 miles of navigable canals and rivers in the UK.

The Suez Canal is in southwest Asia/northeast Africa.

Not oceans but the Mediteranean Sea and the Red Sea

The King of Spain Charles V was the first person to order the conduct of feasibility of building a canal in Panama. His interest was to find a way that would reduce the travelling time between Spain and Peru.

he Suez Canal was built by a company from which country?

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The Panama Canal is owned by Li Ka Shing, a Hong Kong based billionaire, and is run by the Panama Canal Authority.

Einsenhower refused to support his western allies attempts to take the canal.

The Panama Canal does not affect panama.

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Egypt had too much debt that they could not pay back. apex

British Prime Minister Disreali bought enough shares to gain controlling interest in the canal

Sault Ste Marie is a city in the Province of Ontario, Canada and in the US State of Michigan.

the outbreak of malaria caused the French to quit building. the united states then took over and got rid of the malaria by getting rid of the mosquitoes. this they did by removing all standing water.

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It's really cool! Basically, most of it is too narrow and shallow for a ship to go through, so it's got chambers all along it that end up making a sort of staircase. As the ship goes along, water will fill up the chamber it's in until it is high enough to enter the next chamber. This process takes a while (8-10 hours to get across 50 miles), but it's still pretty awesome.

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It's too narrow for the largest ships now, but the first statement is otherwise wrong. The chambers you describe have a proper name: "locks", and although as you say a 'sort of staircase', they do not work quite as you've described them. They are filled from rivers, and enable the canal to climb over the ridge forming the bulk of the isthmus. (The original attempt to keep the canal at sea-level failed as the ridge is too high.)

The French were the first to try and build a canal across South America, starting in 1882. Before they could start work, they needed to secure a concession from the Columbian government, which controlled Panama at that time. However, their project failed, thousands of workers died (mainly from disease,) and the company went bankrupt six years later, in 1888. A Frenchman named Philippe Bunau-Varilla managed to keep the effort from collapsing entirely, and looked for another party to take up the concession. The United States, which was also interested in building a canal, negotiated to buy the concession from the French. However, Columbia refused the sale.

Meanwhile, nationalism was stirring in Panama. An agreement was made with the US government that if the US would help Panama gain their independence, they would allow the canal to be built. In 1903, Panama became its own country, and the United States immediately recognized the new government. Columbia sent troops to reclaim Panama, but US warships prevented them from landing.

After the United States helped Panama win its independence, a treaty was immediately negotiated to allow the US to build a canal. The treaty granted considerably more to the US then the failed agreement with Columbia had, including rights to use military within Panama and US control of the Canal Zone in perpetuity. In essence, the Canal Zone would be part of the US in all but name. However, the man who signed for the Panamanians, the Frenchman Bunau-Varilla, was not part of the official delegation from the new Panamanian government, and some Panamanians felt that the rights granted to the US in the treaty were excessive.

The Suez Canal Authority. They are an Egyptian state owned entity.

they made a $300 million bridge to unit the two vast oceans which officially opened in 1914.

The Egyptians

They helped people to transport goods quickly and efficiently.