GEOG 3 Lecture 17: Geog 3 - Lecture 17
16 Jul 2020
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Colonies, early european states, and ancient and medieval states: A colony is a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent. The modern movement to divide the world into states originated in europe. Political unity in the ancient world reached its height with the establishment of the roman. Empire, which controlled most of europe, north africa, and southwest asia. The european portion of the roman empire was fragmented into a large number of estates owned by competing kings, dukes, barons, and other nobles. The development of states can be traced to the ancient middle east, in an area known as the. The first states to evolve in mesopotamia were known as city-states sovereign states that comprise a town and the surrounding countryside. Nearly all are islands in the pacific ocean or. Compact state- a state in which the distance form the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
