To Stop Pretending: Malaysia- It's Importance

Recently in Humanities, we watched a documentary, "Guns, Germs and Steel". It was originally a book, but the author, Dr. Jared Diamond, made it a documentary. Choosing 1 out of 3 topics, we have to write a blog post. The topic I chose to do is "1. What role did geographic location and natural resources play in the the development of Malaysia?".

Malaysia is a country in South-East Asia. Its located at 2 degrees 30' North Lat. and 122 degrees 30' East Long. Malaysia has a variety of natural resources, so Malaysia, as a nation, is very wealthy.The resources we have here in Malaysia are oil, tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite and agriculture such as fishing, farming and many more. Tin, oil, and petroleum are the popular out of the rest, because there is lots of it and it is very much needed to many groups of people. Tin, is used to make, of course, tin cans and other things. Oil, is used for engines, etc. Petroleum is made into gas, which is needed for all types of vehicles to power them.

All though it is believed by many that Malaysia has two seasons, summer and monsoon, half of that belief is incorrect. Malaysia does have two seasons, but they are the wet and dry seasons. The dry season is mostly around February to the beginning of August, then, August to beginning of February, is the wet season. It rains everyday in the wet season, night or day. Malaysia is protected from storms, blizzards, typhoons, tsunami's and additional natural hazards. Singapore, the neighboring country to Malaysia, is on the equator line. Since from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore, taking five hours by car, the equator line makes Singapore and Malaysia have extremely hot weather.

Malacca, a state in Malaysia, is where trading with Europeans first started. The Malacca Straits was used to go from one place, to Malacca. At that point of time, India, Malaysia and Indonesia had many spices and people from all over the world came to Malacca to trade with other people of other nationalities. The place as we now know as Sunway Pyramid, was actually a tin mine, before it ran out of tin and people transformed it into a lagoon. Because of Malaysia's freedom about 50 years ago, Malaysia has been developing quickly. High- Rise buildings, many offices, tourism and others made Malaysia grow. Why, if it wasn't for offices here in Malaysia, we wouldn't be here!