GEOG 1200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Quinary, Balkanization, Nationstates
12 Dec 2016
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Types of historical political organization: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, the state, nation-states. World-systems analysis nomenclature: mini-systems (bands and tribes, world-empires (chiefdoms, the capitalist world-economy (global, since 1450 c. e. ) Core-periphery patterns of political cohesiveness: multinational states with strong nationalist ideals (e. g. usa, multinational states without strong nationalist ideals (e. g. many sub-saharan. African states: nations without states (e. g. kurds, palestinians) Centripetal political forces: nationalism, effective state organization, common institutions. Centrifugal political forces: internal discord and instability, political devolution, balkanization. The classification of economic activities: primary sector, secondary sector, tertiary sector, quaternary sector, quinary sector. Factors in industrial location: costs of production, capitalist ideology and logic, complexity of the manufacturing process, types of raw materials involved, source of power, costs of labor, the market for the product. Economies of the periphery and semiperiphery: subsistence farming. Plantation agriculture (a form of commercial agriculture but undertaken. Intensive subsistence farming primarily in the periphery and semiperiphery: manufacturing (primarily in the semiperiphery)
