GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Persian Language, Serbo-Croatian, Homo Sapiens
Document Summary
300k/yr - a lot biggest influx in us history. 1863: draft riots in ny. rich people could buy out of draft, so all soldiers were poor irish population reached 32m. 1860-1890: population doubled with 30m more immigrants after 1896, main immigrants were south and eastern european: italy, poland, Balkans, russia they were regarded as socially and genetically inferior eugenics was popular in 1900s thought some races were disposed to be criminals and insane post 1852: many chinese immigrants. Eurasia developed iron, paper, money, democracy, alphabet, gunpowder. Physical geo only continent that goes from arctic to rainforest. Steppes open grassland filling south russia, west china, mongolia. Stretches from hungry to mongolia ideal for grazing cattle and sheep mobile pastoralists steppes are bigger than any other grasslands in the world. Mediterranean zone has most extreme climate produces large seeded cereals has visible islands, producing good navigators.
