GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Historical Geography, Iberian Peninsula, Indirect Rule
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Geog 102
Cultural Geog
Spring 2017
Patterns of Biodiversity
○ Where does biodiversity tend to be highest
■ IN the tropics
● Greater Primary productivity
○ Greatest solar radiation
○ High amounts of water
○ Helps higher trophic levels
■ Hot Spots
● Tend to be in tropical areas as well
● U.S. has spots in place with high gradients in terms of altitudes
Global Warming Six Americas
○ Six categories Americans fall into concerning their view on global warming
■ Know all six categories
■ Question might ask why there is an apparent fifty fifty split in opinion
● Reason for this is because those who believe strongly will be much
more active in their cause
How is water conservation
○ Stored behind dams for other reasons besides simply hydro electric power
King Leopold’s Ghost
○ Brutal form of colonization in Africa
Colonialism
○ Today: colonialism and the globe
○ Thursday: colonialism and the colonized
What is colonialism?
○ The direct occupation of geographical territory inhabited by other people
○ Reshaping what happens in that territory in the interest of the colonizing power
○ Settler colonies: The united states= example
■ Europeans moving to that country and displacing indigenous populations
■ Become places that are largely European
○ Indirect rule
■ Colonizing power does deal with indigenous rulers
■ Wishes of colonizing power enacted by indigenous elites
○ Direct Rule
■ Colony is taken over and run directly by colonizing power
■ Pushing out whatever indigenous leaders there are
○ External influence
■ Broader colonialism has great impact even though never directly colonized
■ Chinese empire never directly occupied by European powers
■ European powers maintained treaty ports outside of china but never went deep
into land
■ What happened in China was very much shaped by colonial strategies of
countries