GEOG 1001 : Test 2 Study Guide Answers
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Climate: mediterranean climate: distinct dry season during the summer, resulting from the warm season expansion, continental climate: hotter summers and colder winters; about a month of freezing below winter. Protected the farmers, peasants, who farmed their land. Many were wealthy; they became the aristocracy in europe. Colonialism: exploitation of the resources and labor of another country through coercion or force: purpose. To supply materials to the mother country great britain and exploit colonies. In return raw materials were extracted, manufactured, and then sold back to the colonies. Industrial revolution: the manufacturing of goods by machines, rise of factories in europe, machine bases industrial productions: gb was the world"s first leading industrial power. European nations led by gb: agricultural surplus extra grain, food, etc. ; more food was produced by less became the first industrial powers in the world. For example, india"s plantation system only grew opium. Gb did not have to pay for the opium because they owned/colonized country.
