01:450:103 Lecture 1: Space, Place & Location - Lecture 1
19 Jan 2018
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Academic geography space = quantity of space around us location = point on a map place = more complicated than location because emotion involved. West - european; most colonial power resides there scale = level you"re looking at. Age of european colonial empire (15th - 20th century: eras of renaissance and enlightenment. Portuguese empire - 1st to rule (1415 to 2002) Us > settler colonialism = have children and naturally expand into different regions other types of colonialism include. > agricultural colonialism - the only land claimed is for farming. > transport colonialism these methods were mainly used to generate wealth. Triangle trade = west african slaves were shipped to the caribbean, then sold to north/ Brici - geopolitically signi cant areas brazil, russia, india, china, indonesia . History shapes the spaces of today: language, culture, identity, politics, built environment (europeans utilized euro architecture)
