GEOG 2200 Lecture : Week 1 Lecture 1 GEOG 2200 2013 Notes.docx
5 Jun 2014
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Week 1 lecture 1: the factors creating today"s world. Connections have existed between peoples and places for thousands of years. These connections have been established through the migration of peoples, the rise and fall of empires and through trade. Of these three means, ongoing trade has perhaps had the most profound impact, connecting empires and nations together. And it was along trade routes that not only goods flowed but people and ideas as well. Consider the myriad of trade routes through history. Most famous of these routes was the spice. Route connecting china, india and the poor, backward western end, europe into a complex lattice of connections. But it is not the only trade route of importance in the history of humankind. (see the maps in the powerpoint lecture. ) We can trace these routes by the chattels traded. We can see these routes in aerial photography as well worn routes across deserts and steppes.
