GEOG 1200 Midterm: GEOG1200 Midterm Review
8 Oct 2016
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The end of the last ice age led to mass human migration and new social / environmental relationships around the world. The rise of agriculture (and the attendant social/environmental changes that it brought) represents a moment of radical change for humanity. Place matters: the rise of agriculture and human civilizations occurred through distinct processes and with diverse outcomes in different regions. The era of european expansion and imperialism brought many distinct cultures and societies into contact with one another (with varying colonial results), and created numerous new socio- environmental relationships. The historical impacts of european imperial expansion still affect our modern geographical world. Division of labour (p. 53), comparative advantage (p. 53) World system (p. 54), core / semi-periphery / periphery (p. 48) Globalization (p. 56) , urbanization, human-induced environmental change, social inequality. Friction of distance (p. 21), spatial diffusion (p. 44) Location, distance (p. 21), accessibility (p. 22), cognitive distance (p. 21), mobility. Places (p. 4), regions (p. 4), landscape, scale (p. 432: key case studies:
