GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mass Production, Agricultural Productivity, Industrial Revolution
21 Apr 2016
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How many of you live in a city? (urban or suburban) What are the key identifying features: highly populated area, high rise buildings (residential/commercial, transportation infrastructure, services and amenities available, rural= primary economic activities, urban= manufacturing, factories, service industry jobs. Highly urbanized places: canada, us, brazil, mexico, sweden, belgium, uk. Least urbanized: pakistan, bangladesh, cambodia, kenya, ethiopia. One explanation: surplus theory (agricultural surplus theory: tens of thousands of years of nomadic living. People lived in relatively small family based groupings. No one is really nomadic today in the modern day: neolithic (agricultural) revolution 12,000 ya. Because of the domestication they couldn"t leave they had to stay to harvest it. Further discoveries led to greater harvests and food surplus. Food surplus: technological advances led to greater harvest and thus creating a food surplus. Labour specialization: surplus led to a second key transformation labour specialization, production- manufacturing of tools, goods etc, services governances, religion, military, education etc.
