Geography 1400F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Subsistence Agriculture, Cultural Landscape, International Inequality
29 Aug 2016
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Growing inequality is one of the biggest social, economic, and political challenges. What is inequality: an instance or the condition of being unequal or uneven. Dimensions of inequality: income, wealth, education, health, gender, political, social, environmental. Two categories of answers: understanding why certain areas of the world experienced cultural development and agricultural domestication, understanding the relations between different parts of the world since european expansion. Evolution of culture and the domestication of agriculture. Two key developments facilitated the formation of early social groups: fire, language. Agricultural and cultural developments lead to civilization. Civilization: a culture with sophisticated economy, political system, and social structure: the beginning of global inequality, those who experienced civilization developed more. Why did civilization diffuse across great distances in certain regions but not in others: agricultural technology spread easier in east-west alignment than north-south due to similar climate (e. g. easier for eurasia than for africa and the americas) Physical geography is related to development and inequality.
