GEOG 152 Lecture 3: GEOG 152: Lec3pt2

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Seats of colonial empires (seaborne and territorial) Seaborne, scattered based around naval connections; territorial, empire surrounded capital city (moscow, vienna) Capital cities: centrality, royal dynastic histories (ex: romanoff"s; intermarried) Bigger than other cities (4x or more bigger than next largest, often) British queen victoria and son, relatives of king of prussia and russian. Zsar; weird trans-european connection of character between dynasties. Royal court; executives managers of large territories; courtiers that were associated with rule. These regimes were never democratic (ex: fascism (italy), Nazism (germany)); the myth of europe as the history of. However, many parts of europe have been subject of different political regimes. Perhaps, england was a prototype for democracy, but it was still corrupt (w/rigged elections) Lisbon, madrid, paris, london, berlin, rome, vienna, moscow. Seats of despotic regimes; it was fairly recent that these regimes became more democratic; Railway/roadway systems that branch out from capital cities (hub)

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