OMIS 2010 Lecture : Medterm GREAT!

• School: York University
• Department: Operations Management and Information System
• Course: OMIS 2010
• Professor: Joan Judge

Document Summary

Countries were in a race to become the most powerful strongest richest country in the world. How was this done? (slavery, natural resources and reconstruction) also countries at first believed the indigenous people living there were barbaric (disorganized) civilizations that needed enlightenment on how to live. How did this reshape different spaces across the globe this reshaped the globe (slavery (mixed cultures; music, lifestyles) Intro- discuss countries current situation (maintaining superiority for their own benefit), go over three main points on why countries conflict over exploiting natural resources. 2: water: middle east/africa"s current drought situation (euphrates, Jordan and nile river conflicts, over building dams and altering plant growth: oil: iraq war, gulf war, iraqi invasion of kuwait (highly profitable natural resource, which reduces dependence on other countries) Gold; was highly profitable and in demand when first discovered (south american civilizations) lead to conflict due to the greed of the.