GEOG 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Core Countries, Peer Pressure, Comparative Advantage
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Your morning starts with coffee, all connected to this: Mcdonalds is universal, type of food served inside is not. North america has one of the highest incomes. We are all connected by trade and goods, but very different outcome income wise. Us has highest bracket of electricity use. Most have access, but we use it the most. Food is produced globally, but we eat the most out of a lot of countries. Globalization: the increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through com- mon process of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change. ** our ancestors traveled globally: hearth areas. Started 9,000 bc, areas that fundamentally shift social relationships. Shared and made things in a group. Made through 3 agriculture advancements: slash nd burn > fertilizes soil, domestication of animals > sheep and cattle, storage of food. ** specialization > division of labor: teachers, buildersn, farmers.