GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fergana Valley, Expansion Of Russia 1500–1800, Russian Empire

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

If you think back to our lecture on place and space, we talked about the importance of relationships between people, and between people and the natural environment to place. And the importance of human experience and of what has happened in the past to what any place is today. In this mini-podcast we will explore one of the many places in the world deeply influenced by global competition for fossil fuels, with place sensitivity. The area sometimes known as the stans or along the silk highway comprises kazakstan, Most of you have probably never heard of the region but it is important to the world for its oil and natural gas reserves, amongst many other things. In the 19th century, before the era of fossil fuels, it was important in the great battle between - Russian imperial power and british imperial power: indian and pakistan were then known as the jewel of the british crown.