GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Settler Colonialism, Great Divergence, Globalism
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Geog 102
Cultural Geography
Spring 2017
Global Impact
○ Reshaping the world
○ Implications for Europe
○ Ecological transformation
■ The Columbian exchange
■ Places now in contact that had been separated for geological eras
■ Physical movement of people and commodities
■ Ecological complexes in north America: squash, tomatoe, corn, potatoes
become available to Europe and to the rest of the world
■ Wheat and barely and oats and rice in part from West Africa
○ Money
○ Populations
○ Commodities
○ The factory system associated with industrial revolution
Colonialism’s Global Impact
○ Ecological Transformation
■ The Columbian Exchange
■ Human connection made between Americas and Europe during first cycle of
colonialsm: movement of products (plants and animals)
■ Important impact: disease
○ Money
■ Americas were source of free money for European colonizing powers: gold
and silver
■ Effort made to get money out of Americas and have it circulate in Europe
■ British also stole gold off Spanish ships
■ Movement of gold and silver across pacific: much more hazardous trip, much
less well known
○ Population Relocation
■ 3 broad vectors of global migration
■ first, settler colonialism: movement of European populations into lands being
colonized
● Irish to America and Canada
● British convicts to Australia
● Exerting European control over distant lands by relocating populations
directly
● Concern that there were too many people living in Europe
● Argument about food and human nature, reproduction will outgrow
natural basis
● Colonies neat solution for this problem
■ Second, vector of slavery: cheap labor force for agricultural production in
South America and southern US
■ Third: south asia and China populations in form of indentured labor