ENVS 2200 Study Guide - Degrowth, Middle Ages
26 Jun 2014
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2200 exam review essay: rodriguez and feagin point out that urban specialization allows us to understand the relationships among cities in a global context. Discuss with respect to different types of cities (for example imperial cities, colonial cities, and industrial cities). Also there was great privatization and foreign investment in latin. America: the excerpt by yeong-hyun kim and john rennie short explains the various trades goods and mercantile roles of trading in the middle ages. It is explained, that: european countries trading with each other in a nomadic way progressed into urban cities soon. Later in the 17 century, the dutch east asia company formed a monopoly in trading. Since the world has become greatly globalized due to the supply and demand of all countries becoming dependent on each other. I believe urban globalization and privatization has created our capitalistic economy, whose growth now threatens the depletion of natural resources of the world.
