GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ganges, Indus River, Population Geography
3 Dec 2020
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Very high density (persons per arable land), population boom. Movement by workers to gulf states for jobs. Cultural and religious hearth how do those designations pertain to this region, how have they impact cities and urbanization. Islam, christianity, judaism, divide up jerusalem, but religious sights everywhere. -region"s cities heavily impacted by globalization, oil industry, flows of colonization. A sovereign state with borders that governs a specific nation of people. Nation-less states: states with multiple ethnic groups, no defining one. State-less nations, ethnicity"s that don"t have a state to govern them separately. Breakup of ottomans, into french and british colonies, borders drawn without knowing nationalities regions, leads to conflict as peoples are in nations they don"t want to be in. Religions how can ethnicity and religion help to explain regional conflicts israel/palestine, Two religions ethnicities claim the same area, want a state for their nation. Historical disputes from past religions/ethnic conflicts last long.
