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Highlights the research on Mongolia. Air and surface temperatures in the country; Dynamics of permafrost with respect to its effects on vegetation and human behavior; Transition of the country's economy from communism to free markets; History of the country.

Itinerant merchants have been an integral part of world trade since at least the time of the earliest Silk Route from China to the West. Today a group of traders from Nepal maintain this tradition. Today their travel is by economy jet and inexpensive train. The countries involved are primarily thos6 with historic ties to the mercenary Ghurka forces under the British. The traders are well organized and limited to a few‐families, primarily from the Pokhara Valley in Nepal. Their goods begin with products from Nepal and Tibet, but they also move goods gathered along their route. They represent a charming anomaly in the modern world, a touch of the old Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Because of their widespread application and increasing frequency, guerrilla wars seem clearly to have replaced the historic pattern of conflict (fighting) between standing armies. In fact, today national and international politics appear to be divided between strategies based upon the long-range use of nuclear weapons and large national armies, and the use of small force, low cost guerrilla wars. For these reasons, if for no others, it is time to bring the study of guerrilla war into a more explicit role in our teaching and to study and demonstrate those features that are clearly geographic and which we as geographers can analyze and even predict in their impact on the outcome of such conflicts. The following simulation-game is designed to accomplish these objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents information about Mongolia. History of the use of wheels in the country; Religion followed in the country; Architecture and housing in Mongolia.