GEOG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Humboldt Current, Ecotourism, Fokker E.Ii
26 Aug 2016
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If you live behind the mountains there is almost no rain: el nino, warm water flows eastward from the western pacific bringing warm water and torrential rain, global impact b. i. Brings cold air and droughts to normally warm and humid areas in western. Portugal gets east of certain line, spain gets west b. iii. Why brazilians speak portuguese: achieved through guns (military power), disease (smallpox), and steel, haciendas d. i. Estates given by colonizers as a thank you d. ii. Local people worked on estates with a small plot for themselves d. iii. Green revolution in agriculture producing as much as possible e. iii. People who worked on the land did not own the land and got paid low wages with long hours so they stayed poor e. iv. Plantation owners got very rich as they produced crops for export. Money gained was put back into the plantation the local people did not benefit from the revenue: colonizers. Interested in raw materials mineral extraction f. i. f. ii.
