GEOG 1HB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lassa Fever, Pertussis, Well-Founded Relation
11 Dec 2016
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Requires an understanding of physical geography and, for some critics, has overtones of environmental determinism. First response can be seen as an essential prelude to the second, world systems and dependency theories. The second response, which considers relations between different parts of the world from the onset of european overseas expansion to he present, is rooted in marxist logic of dominance and subordination. The shape of continents: civilizations developed in some areas and not others and were a consequence of the slow transition from hunting and gathering societies to agricultural societies. Since eurasia is east-west while major axes of the americans and of africa are north-south. World systems and dependency theories: for many geographers, the single most important factor in explaining the plight of countries in the less developed world is their history of colonialism and subsequent ongoing relationship with more developed world.
