GEOG 217 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - City, Canada, Montreal
20 Nov 2018
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Cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Must define what we mean by modern and what we mean by city. Distribution of cities was in the mediterranean, eastern china, iraq, upper india, etc: 20 40 degrees north (locally confined, various things were occurring at this time . Instead, cities were used for religious, trade, or administrative purposes. Rapid increase in the quantity of large cities and their overall population size. Distribution of cities are dispersed more broadly among the continents and latitude: as a result of , technology was dominating agriculture and trade, steel manufacturing, energy from fossil fuels, more transportation options, highly integrated global economy. Note: look at the stars of the previous maps. Indicates the average location of cities: weighted center of gravity (takes all 25 of largest cities into consideration) In 430 bc 1500: not a lot of change in the distribution of large cities.
