GEOG 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Caspian Sea, Khazars, Pechenegs
2 Nov 2017
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Roman empire = consisted of lands round the mediterranean, with gaul and. Possession of the mediterranean lands would have been imperfect without the possession of gaul, and the possession of gaul naturally led to the possession of britain. Germany (most central part of europe) came to fill something like the same position which italy had once held. Holland, denmark, sweden = became great colonizing powers. National character = influenced by the disposition of the people who have settled from mediterranean and the ocean. in it. Influences the course of history, but it does not wholly determine the course of history. Main feature is that the population of europe = nearly homogeneous, at least more palpably homogeneous, than that of any other great division of the world since beginning of history. In the borderlands of spain and gaul, the . In the extreme north of europe the . Basques = the remnant of a great people whom are pre-aryan inhabitants of.
