GEOG 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Triangular Trade, Neocolonialism, Byrsonima Crassifolia

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1101
• Professor: Williams

Document Summary

!2: peripheral regions : regions with underdeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity (ex. Nigeria: plantation : large landholding that usually specialized in the production of one particular corp for market, semi-peripheral regions : regions that are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited and dominated by core regions (ex. High densities of population, limited cultivable land in europe. Desire for expansion and power: factors in the colonization of georgia. Slavery and the plantation system cotton (1) cotton as global commodity (2) central to development of industrial capitalism, contemporary manufacturing, Tenotchtitlan : more populous than paris or london at the time. The inca empire was probably the largest in the world. North america was densely populated with settlements. The landscape of the americas which colonist encountered was a human landscape . not a purely natural one. The pristine myth > the idea that the americas were largely uninhabited and unaltered by humans before european colonization.