GEOG 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Anatolia, Zagros Mountains, Tamaulipas
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Early geographers: signi cant in developing a base of geographic knowledge, greek scholars developed the idea that places embody fundamental relationships between people and the natural environment. 9/6/2016: the principle areas of sedentary agricultural production (with permanently settled farmers) extended in a discontinuous arc from morocco to china, with 2 main outliers in the central. Andes and mesoamerica: the dominant centers of global civilization were china, northern india, and the ottoman. An interdependent world geography: world-system: is an interdependent system of countries linked by political and economic competition, external arenas: regions not yet absorbed into the world-system. Trade and merchant capitalism: plantations: large landholdings that usually specialize in the production of one particular crop for market, import substitution: copying and making goods previously available only by trading. Core and periphery in the new world-system: capitalism began to grow into a global system that reached into virtually every part of the new world and aspect of people"s lives.