HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ural Mountains, Proletariat, Marxism
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Geographical - we can define europe in a geographical way, but also in a cultural way. Ural mountains to the caspian sea (caspian on the asian side, black sea on the. Europe is diversified in terms of geography (climate, weather, dry, wet, lowlands, mountains) Lowlands are important because you can traverse on horseback in two weeks; easier to survive on a british island where it is safer as opposed to open lowlands easily traversable from both east and west such as poland. Europe has very complex and diverse sea lines - much easier to traverse more organized atlantic shorelines as opposed to mediterranean shorelines, but. Europe had a lot of natural resources, a continent where people always wanted to live. Animals in europe or easily accessible to europe, very easy to domesticate (goats, sheep, horses, pigs) as opposed to llamas or alpacas, of north america etc. Europe can be defined culturally as well.
