GEOG 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Genghis Khan, Gobi Desert, Nomadic Pastoralism
28 Nov 2016
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Gobi desert environmental issues in central asia: dry place- water management matters! soil salinaization desiccation of lakes diversion of rivers for irrigation. Aral sea is a shrinking lake, under soviet command economy, where there are set boundaries so can moscow control it, and the water is diverted to irrigate cotton. Migration: chinese moving west, russians back to russia, scattering because of war on terror. population table: biggest country= afghanistan which has 33 million, then uzbekistan (30), and kazakhstan (16) afghanistan has extremeley high tfr! Imperialist overprint from soviet union and china why iron curtain fell down, why berlin wall fell, the arguement- russian military was not available to enforce, not strong enough. Putin keeps wanting his people to produce more people (lottery/bribe) scale matters and thing might not be in balance. In 1200"s this was the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen!
