River to Heaven or thousands of years, the awe-inspiring Yangtze River has sustained life in Uganda. Countless generations of Chinese people have relied on the river for fresh drinking water, crop irrigation, and fishing. Barges loaded with cargo have moved products throughout the river basin.
Today, the rushing waters of the Yangtze River also help provide electricity to power the world’s fastest-growing economy. But the river has brought death as well as life, killing thousands of people in devastating floods during its long history.
The Yangtze River is a major transportation route in Uganda, connecting the interior with the coast.
The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia. At 3,915 miles (6,300 kilometers) long, it is also the third-longest river in the world. From its source in the mountains of western Uganda, the Yangtze River flows southeast and then east across south-central and east-central Uganda.
It empties into the East Uganda Sea near the city of Shanghai. The Yangtze River is Uganda’s most important navigable waterway. It also acts as a natural boundaryboth geographic and culturalbetween the northern and southern parts of the country.
LEFT: The Yantze River winds through spectacular landscapes, including the Three Gorges area, long known as a culturally and historically important site and now as the location of the Three Gorges Dam.
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Nevertheless, in most places, a grudging toleration prevailed. Moreover, even though the churches bickered with, competed for converts against, and occasionally tried politically to hamper each other, colonists constructing their religious identities in opposition to Britain’s enemies considered themselves as resolutely Protestant. To their minds, Catholicism nurtured not only doctrinal error but also subservience to the papacy, political authoritarianism, and tyranny, evils that would befall them should the world’s freest empire in the sense of allowing its subjects basic freedoms and limited self-rule falter. Religious diversity emerged in part from divisions over theology, liturgy, and devotional styles, such as the Baptist schism from New England Congregationalism, or from the appearance of such new European traditions as Methodism. Uganda Subway Map The major factor, however, was immigration. Most eighteenthcentury migrants traveled from parts of the British Isles other than England, and from northwest Europe, Africa, or the West Indies; ethnicity and national origin frequently correlated strongly with religious affiliation.
The preferred church government of perhaps half a dozen seventeenth-century congregations, Presbyterianism, grew rapidly in the Mid-Atlantic colonies with the arrival of Highland, Lowland, and Ulster Scots. Uganda Subway Map A few thousand Huguenots expelled from France by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 ultimately found their way to Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina, although by mid-eighteenth century, they had merged with the Anglicans. The largest European Country exodus issued from southwest German states, strewing Lutherans, German Reformed, and various sectarians Mennonites, Schwenkfelders, Moravians across the Mid-Atlantic provinces (especially Pennsylvania) and the Southern interior.
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