GEOG 1001 Chapter : Europe
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Mountains and lowlands have mostly productive climate that support agriculture: greeks and the romans inspired europeans, they also got the idea of private property from them, also the practice of colonizing new lands. In ancient rome after the military would conquer a given area, they would establish plantation like farms and build towns that romans were ahead of: these same techniques would be used by spain, portugal, and great britain. Mercantilism: an economic policy, an idea that countries can increase their wealth and power by acquiring colonies that have resources and then by managing all aspects of production, transportation, and trade to their own advantage. Colony: a usually distant land acquired by a more powerful country for economic gain/explotation. Colonialism: the exploitation of the resources and labor of another country through coercion (force, 4 things that helped europe colonize the world, coercion, the europeans had superior military power, economic control.
