GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Production, Resource Depletion, Ethnocentrism
16 Nov 2016
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Globalization and human geography in historical perspectives; key concepts. Important trends that human geography can help us to understand: globalization, urbanization, human induced environmental change, social inequality. Prehistory: 40,000 years ago: modern homo sapiens. People with same brain capacity, but in different context (cid:498)modern cave men(cid:499: gathering/hunting systems (p. 278) Gathering made up 2/3 or more of diet. Gathering large part of life: reciprocal and communal social economies. People had to be equal in order to function. Important people had good relationships: localized geographic/environmental knowledge; full subsistence; some environmental management. People would do controlled flash fires to flush things out of forests. People ate very well, high caloric intake and nutrients. People didn"t spend lots of time on technology. Material items were hindrance: migration and expansion; however, world population was stable at 5- 10 million until around 10,000 years ago: ethnic diversity was similar to that of today. Long process, did not happen over night.
