GEOG 2200 : Week 1 Lecture 1 GEOG 2200 2012 Notes.docx
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What are the factors that have created today"s world: technological advances in both transportation and communications. But these advances, by themselves, do not explain the world today: also important is the changing global structural environment. Changing (possibly controversial) shift in how we see the relationship between citizens and states. Connections have existed between peoples and places for thousands of years: these connections have been established through the migration of peoples, the rise and fall of empires and through trade. It was along trade routes that not only goods flowed but people and ideas as well: and consider the myriad of trade routes through history. We can trace these routes by the chattels traded. Samarkand (in what is now turkistan), the island of zanzibar, [others] and the many other centres dotting the lattice of routes to collectively made up the trade routes: these routes grew over time.
