Existing Canals in the World: The Panama Canal and The Suez Canal

For centuries, the idea of how to access the West Indies puzzled many sailors from across the globe. During colonial times, Europeans coveted the spices and goods found in Asian countries, but the inability of their sponsored expeditions to discover a time-saving western passageway hindered their interaction with this region of the world. As time progressed, nations began to find ways to trade with Asia, but the routes taken were long, expensive, and hazardous. According to an article found in the publication, Civil Engineering, “… the only way for a ship to travel between the oceans was via the Strait of Magellan, at the southern tip of South America, a dangerous and time-consuming route.” However, in nineteen fourteen, their struggles finally ended. At last, the completion of the Panama Canal provided a shorter sea route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean for trading countries all over the world. This occasion revolutionized sea travel and was consequently a widely documented and publicized event. Countless images and articles were created throughout the early twentieth century, which magnified the importance of this project. This collection of primary sources captures the significance of the Panama Canal for the American people and the international community at that time. The synchronic analysis of such documents will foster a greater appreciation for the Panama Canal and the influence it has had on civilization since its inception.

Three sets of locks and canals make it possible for ships to sail form one Great Lake to another and from Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean, from which they can sail to any port in the world. The canal and the bodies of water they connect are listed here.

The construction of the Panama Canal has a number of important foreign policy implies, First it led to the United States' supporting independent factions, who separated the republic of Panama from Colombia, and it also led to the granting of sovereign land rights to the United States over the Panama Canal Zone. The Panama Canal had massive suggestions for

Canals were a significant development in human history because they allowed societies to more freely transport goods by ship if natural rivers were not present and to provide irrigation for crops growing in drier soil. The most well-known example of a canal dramatically improving human productivity is the Panama Canal, opened officially in 1914 in the country of Panama in Central America. The canal joined the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and allowed ships to transport goods across the world much more quickly and efficiently.

In 1876 a French company wanted to build the canal cutting right through panama, but disease and hazardous conditions paused the work. America got impatient and bought the canal sight from the French company in 1901 for $40 million. Although America bought the sight they still had to pay $10 million plus the rental fee of $250,000. However this was rejected by the Colombian Senate and America had to go back to stage one. by this point in time the Panamanians believed America would help them gain independence from Columbia. The Panamanians began to revolt and America sent a war ship to protect them, and stopped columbia from sending forces to Panama. Panama now had independance and America got the canal back. Building the Canal was rough many workers suffered from yellow fever and Malaria. the Panama canal was finished in 1914. Since then the Panama Canal has been a big

The United States built the Panama Canal. The canal was a fifty-mile-long passage that created a shortcut for ships. It cut through the Central American nation of Panama and linked the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. “It was an incredible project, the largest public construction project in US history. The engineering, technical, medical, and scientific challenges were incredible, first having to get disease under control and then figure out whether it should be a sea-level or a lock canal. It was forty miles long and literally cut through the continental divide, so it was extremely difficult” (Greene). The construction of the Panama Canal strengthened the economic dominance, and the rise of the United States naval power in the Western Hemisphere, accomplishing a long-awaited dream to create a route that allowed ships to move easily between the two great oceans.

In order to get to the Pacific Ocean from the east coast of the United States you must either, go around Canada, go around South America, or go all the way around the world. These were the only ways to get to the Pacific from the Atlantic Ocean until 1914. The most common way the American navy would get there was around South America. In many instances when there was problems on the west or east coast that needed naval intervention it took a significant amount of time for the navy to reinforce them. This could end up being a serious problem for the United States if there was any large scale problem on the west or east coast that involved the navy, it could take a detrimental amount of time for the reinforcements to arrive. They needed a way to connect the two seas so that it could help them to reduce the time necessary to get from one coast to another and so that other ships could get access to both seas without much trouble. The creation of the Panama Canal was the most efficient and effective way to connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

The Panama Canal in my opinion one of the greatest man made canal in the history of the world. The french attempted to make the canal but failed. In the year 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt pressured Columbia to declare Panama independent. Theodore did not care about the panamanians he cared about the land. Panama is an isthmus, an isthmus is a piece of land connecting two large land masses such as North and South America. People have been dreaming of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean for hundreds of years. John Findley Wallace resigned so President Theodore gave the job to someone else John Frank Stevens. Stevens had an idea instead of digging out the mountain they would build steps to get over it. They used railroads to move dirt, supplies, and machines. It took a while, however they used dams to block water, made artificial lakes so the boats could get across, gravity to fill the locks, and make locks. Locks are like steps, you fill it with water, open up the gates and keep getting higher.

The Panama Canal was originally started back in the 1880s by the French and is considered by some to be the 8th Wonder of the World. Construction may have started in the 1880s, but the idea for such a canal started long before that time. Surveying for the canal started all the way back in the 1550s. The idea for such a canal came from how inconvenient travel and trade was without the canal. Ships used to have to travel all the way around the southern tip of South America to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The French finally decided to try and build a canal between the two oceans after over 300 years of different surveys being down around the area. The French chose to build the canal through Panama. There were close to 22,000 deaths caused by disease or accidents in the construction of the canal. The French were plagued by Malaria, or yellow fever, and were given many setbacks throughout their 9 year effort to build the canal. This combined with the French attempt going bankrupt caused them to have to give up on the try. The United States then came to agreement and signed the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with the French, officially

During the late 1800s, a French company had tried to link the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama but failed. The French had abandoned the attempt to build and convinced the U.S. to buy the company’s claim. In 1903, the U.S. government purchases the Panama route for $40 million. Roosevelt stepped in and dispatched warships to the waters off Panama to support a Panamanian rebellion against Colombia. Soon after that, Panama declared its independence from Colombia. Panama immediately granted America control over the “canal zone.” America payed Panama $10 million and an annual rent of $250,000 to secure the

The Panama canal is a unique structure, and the amount it took to build is mind blowing. Many people helped to build the canal, but it was too dangerous for the workers that helped. They eventually faced hard rain, earthquakes and fires around them and their work would be destroyed every storm they encountered. Mosquitoes had parasites that got workers at the canal sick and some even died because the parasites carried malaria and yellow fever. These catastrophes were too much for the workers and someone had to change something in order for the Panama canal to be complete.

The reason for the United States building the canal, was to prepare to go to war with Spain. The USS was ordered to leave California to head towards Cuba, but they realized that this trip would take 60 days and they would have to stop in South America numerous times for coal, before they would reach Cuba. After that, the U.S. knew that there had to be a route to take so they built the Panama Canal. Originally, the French started the Panama Canal in 1881, but they went bankrupt, so the United States agreed to pay for the costs and take up the construction. Columbia denied the United States the right to take over, which caused a revolt with the Panamanians. The Panamanians received their independence, which granted

The canal was the best thing that ever happened to Panama. The Panama Canal was started under President Roosevelt and completed by his successor, William Howard Taft. The canal was built across an isthmus, a narrow body of land that connects two larger land areas, which connects North and South America. In some places in Panama the isthmus is only 50 miles across. The French started the canal in the late 1800’s. They had just built the then famous Suez Canal with relative ease. The Suez Canal, unlike the Panama Canal, was a straight canal on level ground, in a relatively dry climate. The French had failed in building the Panama Canal because of the tropical climate, in which deadly tropical diseases consumed their

It may be a crossing from the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, yet it is a symbol that holds great value to the Egyptian people. The Suez Canal was an idea proposed by many generations, ranging from the Egyptian Pharaohs to Napoleon Bonaparte. Their ideas failed because it was believed that there was a height difference between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, because of this it would take an enormous amount of time and money to construct. Some say that the pharos succeeded in constructing the Suez Canal but it was later destroyed as there was evidence of an old path that connected the two seas.

I had to write a report about one of the great man made structure of the world and I had choice the Suez Canal .I will talk about the construction of the Suez Canal and the purpose of building such a famous and an important man made structure in the Arab World that make me proud of their working even there were no modern equipment that help them in to their work. Canal is water manmade canal that where ground before constructions by digging the ground to depth that allow water to go through so the ship can move easily in to from one water surface and another .Suez Canal is a102 mile manmade waterway with 26feet in depth that connect two main water surface in to the world which are the Mediterranean Sea (located between Europe and North of Africa) and the Red Sea (located between the Asia and Africa ) which located in Egypt . Sea trade in to the past were very active because ships can carries tones of the goods whit low cost of services that make it the main methods in to the world to exchange the trade between the different continents . In the past the sea route for commercial ships were sailing from Europe to Asia especially to India which was famous with their goods that make Europe countries to buy their goods or tea etc.. so they should to sail from Europe around Africa to reach to India or to reach in to their colonies in Asia or Africa that took long time and a high rate of danger that make the main purpose of building the Suez Canal to shorten the distance and