The Shah of Iran appealed to U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for help, but was rebuffed on the grounds that " movements of conquest by Germany will continue and will extend beyond Europe to Asia, Africa, and even to the Americas, unless they are stopped by military force.

The " Three Americas Railway " was supposed to extend from the Bering Sea to the Strait of Magellan.

The Americas collection mainly consists of 19th and 20th century items although the Inca, Aztec, Maya and other early cultures are well represented ; collecting of modern artefacts is ongoing.

Gateball, a sport originated in Japan under the influence of croquet, is played mainly in East and Southeast Asia and the Americas, it can also be regarded as a croquet variant.

In the Americas, fur ( North America ) and sugar ( South America ) were the most important trade goods, while African settlements traded slaves — mainly destined for the plantations on the Antilles and Suriname — gold, and ivory.

Italian ( or lingua italiana ) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia.

The Europeans were sometimes disappointed because they hoped to find more gold in West Africa, but when the development of plantations in the Americas, mainly in the Caribbean, in Brazil and in the south of the United States raised a great need for cheap labor, the area received more attention.

Colonialism in this sense refers to Western European countries ' colonization of lands mainly in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania ; the main European countries which were active in this form of colonization were Spain, Portugal, France, the Kingdom of England, the Netherlands, and from the 18th century Great Britain.

Because of its excellent harbour, Mindelo ( on the island of São Vicente ) became an important commercial centre during the 19th century, mainly because the British used Cape Verde as a storage depot for coal which was bound for the Americas.

As is shown clearly on the map, the jus soli is mainly in use in “ the new world ” — the Americas.

Bromeliaceae ( the bromeliads ) is a family of monocot flowering plants of around 3, 170 species native mainly to the tropical Americas, with a few species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana.

Hazaragi is spoken by Hazara people who mainly live in Afghanistan ( the Hazarajat and also in major urban areas ), Pakistan ( particularly Quetta ) and Iran ( particularly Mashhad ), with diaspora communities in the Americas, Europe and Australia.

Killifish are found mainly in fresh or brackish waters in the Americas, as far south as Argentina and as far north as southern Ontario.

( Free range horse and cattle herding would later be brought to the Americas and would especialize as Gaucho and Cowboy practices altogether with a rich social culture of their own with stockbreeding mainly for meat and leather rather than milk, though this may not be totally unexploited ).

The expression BRT is mainly used in the Americas ; in India, it is called BRTS ( the additional ' S ' stands for system ); in Europe and Australia, it is often called a busway, while elsewhere, it may be called a quality bus.

Instead, the cash crops were transported mainly by a separate fleet which only sailed from Europe to the Americas and back.

The discovery of the Americas in modern western history is mainly attributed to the voyages of Christopher Columbus.

The encomienda () was a legal system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor.

Regions that consume breadsticks include the Americas, Europe ( mainly Spain, Italy and Greece ), and parts of Asia.

These are mainly from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas: the total number of artefacts is about 16, 000.

Also included are ethnic Chinese from other parts of the Americas and East Asia, and Asians of non-Chinese ancestry, mainly Japanese and Korean, whose first immigrants date from WWII and the Korean war.

These plants grow mainly in the warmer regions of the Americas and West Indies.

The growth of mining in Potosí in present-day Bolivia, which became the largest city in the Americas in the 17th century, created a constant demand for wine which was supplied mainly from Peru.

Multichannel television sound is used mainly in the Americas.

They are mainly found and widespread in the Americas, with a few species present in Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Spanish colonization of the Americas began with the capture and subjugation of local Indigenous peoples of the Americas, mainly of the Native Caribbean people by Columbus on his four voyages.

alt = Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean, angling north east of Australia, turning sough after passing Alaska, then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia, continuing west below Africa, then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada, then angling east to southern Europe, then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas ' eastern coast, and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle

Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1995 in Puerto Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile, and even being spotted outside the Americas in countries like Russia and The Philippines.

Cacti are native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north — except for Rhipsalis baccifera, which also grows in Africa and Sri Lanka.

Research has led to a dispersal via land bridge-based theory, and scientists have gone on to note the waves of adaptive radiation that seem to have swept the Americas from north to south.

Close to 70 % of the 334 extant species occur in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, with the remaining 100 found in the Americas, primarily in South America, but with thirteen in Central America, and one in North America, north of Mexico.

It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or, depending on definition, to Antarctica ) in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.

The Spanish were desirous of reinforcing their presence in Alta California as a buffer against Russian colonization of the Americas advancing from the north, and possibly establish a harbor that would give shelter to Spanish ships.

What was left of the insurgent Army of the Americas moved north towards Zacatecas and Saltillo with the goal of making connections with those the United States for support.

With the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the institution of viceroys was adapted to govern the highly populated and wealthy regions of the north overseas: New Spain ( Mexico and Phillipines ) and the south overseas: Peru and South America.

The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies ' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas ( Sixth Avenue ) and Seventh Avenue – to the east, and the Hudson River and West Street to the west.

If this theory is correct, it would mean that some Proto-Australoids continued the Great Coastal Migration beyond Southeast Asia along the continental shelf north in East Asia and across the Bering land bridge, reaching the Americas about 52, 000 BCE.

Hippeastrum is a genus of about 90 species and 600 + hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas from Argentina north to Mexico and the Caribbean.

Emily Carr brought the north to the south ; the west to the east ; glimpses of the ancient culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas to the most newly arrived Europeans on the continent.

* Ramparts of Quebec City, the only remaining fortified city walls in the Americas, north of Mexico

It is the largest prehistoric earthen construction in the Americas north of Mexico.

They are endemic to the Americas, found from Mexico in the north, south through Central America and large parts of South America, and as far south as northern Argentina.

In the Americas the Royal Terns on the east coast, during the breeding season ( April – July ), occur in the US north to Virginia, occasionally drifting north to Maryland.

Podocarpus reaches as far north as southern Japan and southern China in Asia, and Mexico in the Americas, and Nageia into southern China and southern India.

The broadest definition of the disputed region was defined by the following: west of the Continental Divide of the Americas, north of the 42nd parallel north ( the northern border of New Spain and after 1821 of Mexico ), and south of the parallel 54 ° 40 ′ north ( the southern border of Russian America after 1825 ).

Generally the Flatiron District can be said to be bounded by 20th Street, Union Square and Greenwich Village to the south ; the Avenue of the Americas ( Sixth Avenue ) or Seventh Avenue and Chelsea to the west ; 25th Street and NoMad to the north ; Rose Hill to the northeast, and Lexington Avenue / Irving Place, Gramercy Park to the east.