GEO 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Comparative Advantage, Profit Motive, Ethnocentrism
8 Apr 2016
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Hearth areas: geographic setting where new practices have developed from which they will spread. Slash and burn: system of cultivation in which plants are harvested close to the ground, what"s left is left to dry and then it is burned. World empires: group of mini systems that have been absorbed into a common political system. Colonization: physical settlement in a new territory of people from a colonizing state. Imperialism: the deliberate exercise of military power and economic influence by powerful states in order to advance and secure their national interests. Law of diminishing returns: tendency for productivity to decline after a certain point with continued addition of capital and/or labor to a given resources base. Harsher environment in continental interiors were still characterized by isolated, subsistence-level, hunting-and-gathering mini systems. The dry belt of steppes and desert margins stretching across the old world from western sahara to mongolia was a continuous zone of pastoral mini systems.
