GG102 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gateway Cities, Demographic Transition, Central Place Theory
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Colonialism - formal establishment and maintenance of rule by a sovereign power over a foreign population through the establishment of settlements. The effect of colonialism have continued to be felt as people all over the world struggle for political and economic independence: imperialism - the extension of state authority over the political and economic life of other territories. First phases of imperialism the core exploits the periphery for raw materials. All the people residing in the state belong to the same nation. The north/south divide and decolonization: north/south divide - the colonization of africa, south america, parts of the paci c, Asia, and smaller territories scattered throughout the southern hemisphere resulted in a political geographic division of the world into north and south. In the norther: the imperialist states of europe, the us, russia, australia, new. North - core countries: decolonization - the reacquisition by colonized peoples of control over their own territory.
