GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mass Production, Agricultural Productivity, Division Of Labour
18 Dec 2017
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Whole range of things that differentiate urban/suburban areas from rural regions. Greater and greater proportions of the global population are living in urban areas each year. Change over time: 10% to 50% in 200 years. Belgium (98), japan (94), argentina (92), chile (90), australia (89) Papua new guinea (13), ethiopia (20), cambodia (21), kenya (26), Mesopotamia = land between two rivers (between tigris and euphrates river) Followed closely by several other areas: urban hearths. Cities have emerged in the last 10,000 years. How/why did these cities emerge: nomadic (hunter-gatherer) societies. Not randomly moving around everywhere but moving from space to another to hunt and gather: agricultural societies: Domesticate animals can be used for their own gain (i. e. raising for consumption/keeping for sources of power such as pulling cars around) If you grow plants, you have to tend to those plants which have turned nomadic structures into permanent settlements (growing a farm)
