GEO 131 Chapter 1A: Chapter 1A Summary
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Despite its size, europe continues to have a major impact on world affairs. Contains a large and varied store of raw materials including: cultivable soils, rich fishing waters, extensive forests, coal and mineral ores, oil and natural gas. Physiography is the physical geography of any part of the terrestrial world: climate and physical features mark the natural landscape (ex. vegetation, soils and water). Rome was the first metropolitan-scale urban center in europe: linked numerous other cities throughout the empire to the capital through a system of overland and water routes, which facilitated political control and enabled economic growth. Local functional specialization is the production of particular goods by particular people in particular places. The city-states of early modern europe were dominated by merchant classes with powerful economic interests: most important on or near the mediterranean and baltic seas, locations facilitated long-distance trade. Diffusion of the industrial revolution eastward led to a skyrocket in population, emigration and industrializing cities.
