GEO 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Central Uplands, Land And Water Hemispheres, Balkanization
Document Summary
European locational advantages: relative location at crossroads of land hemisphere (hemisphere with the most land, maximum efficiency for global contact, navigable rivers and canals (for contact within and outside europe, european interaction. Climate and resources: west: humid temperate (c, east: humid cold (d, many different natural resources. Landforms and opportunities: physiography: total physiological geography, 4 major units/sections of europe. Industrial revolution: started in britain with steam engine, moved from northwest to southwest and central europe to eastern europe. Shatter belt: zone of splintering between cultural-political forces and fragmented by aggressive rivalries. Balkanization: recurrent division of a region (relates similar patterns elsewhere in world to the balkan region) Largest, most important historically dominant part of region. Contemporary territorial challenges: serbs in bosnia-herzegovina, independent montenegro, independent, muslim kosovo, hungarian minority in vojvodina province. Post-yugoslavian conflict between serbs, croats, and bosniaks: ethnic cleansing by bosnian serbs. The mainland core: 8 states, truce in 1995.
