GEOG 202 Lecture 6: SMITH - RUSSIA
2 Nov 2017
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Harold williams describes the significance of the great russian plain and the great russian rivers. Explains how russia developed in the domain of constantinople, rather than rome or bagdad, and points to the profound significance of this fact. Fundamental difference between russian and english history = difference between great plain and island. Russian plain = extends from baltic and the prussian and austrian frontiers across eastern europe and western asia in one vast sweep, broken only by the low range of the . Bounded on the north by the white sea and the arctic ocean, On the south by the black sea, the caucasus and the kopet dagh range on the persian frontier, On the east reaches a limit in the pamirs, the tien shan and altai ranges and the mountainous region beyond the yenisei. Great trade routes that give principal stimulus to social development and to organization and growth of political communities on the plain.
