Geography 1400F/G Lecture 7: 7 Lecture 07/10/2015

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Imperialism and the making of the modern world. Global inequality does not exist in a historical vacuum. In 1820, the average income disparity between richest and poorest of humanity was 3 to 1. 1820: majority of world"s population still rural and agrarian - less than one billion. Material difference between peasant majority in europe and peasant majority in the rest of the world not that great. For example, in the late 17th century, of the population of france was dead before the age of 20. Davis: perhaps the best defined as the sum of all thoughts, beliefs, myths, and intuitions made manifest today by the myriad cultures of the world humanity"s greatest legacy. ". Davis says that within your lifetime, of existing languages will be extinct. Subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by an imperial power + reshaping the political + economic relations between societies and cultures.

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