Study Guide for Human Geography
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Brooke0410 on January 21, 2010
Classes:
Mrs. Cahill's English Class, Mr. Kane's AP Human Geography
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Languages of Belgium | Flanders (in the North) speak Flemish + Walloons (in the South) speak French |
| Euro Monetary Zone | by the 1980's Germany, France, and the United Kingdom (big three); Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece (southern states); the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembug, Denmark, and Ireland (five small states) = 12; [as of 2005, Great Britian is the major European Union nation that has not entered the Euro Monetary Zone**] |
| Benelux | The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg |
| Concern of EU | loss of local autonomy |
| League of Nations | the modern movement of the supra-national movement (followed WWI) -- lead to tthe United Nations |
| Mackinder's Theory | concluded that a land based power, not sea based, would ultimately rule the world: Eurasia with its impregnable, resource-rich, "pivot area" (Heartland Theory) |
| Boundaries and Disputes | Boundaries: boundary (state), geometric boundaries, and phisical-political boundaries; Disputes: definitional boundary dispute and locational boundary dispute |
| Boundary (state) | vertical plane (includes above and below ground) |
| Geometric Boundaries | drawn using grid system: latitude / longitude |
| Physical-political Boundaries | agreed upon physical geo-landscape (river / mountain) |
| Definitional Boundary Dispute | focus on legal language of boundary agreement |
| Locational Boundary Dispute | focus on delimitation or demarcation of boundary |
| Devolution | movement of power from central government to regional government (in state) |
| Sharia | law (rule of law) bas on Qu'ran (Islamic Bible), not legal procedure (US and West) |
| Berlin Conference | major colonizers (Britian, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy) met for the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885, and arbitrarily laid out the colonial map of Africa |
| Wallerstein | proponet of the World System Theory: to understand any state, we must understand its spation and functional relationship within the world economy (the dot painting in the book) |
| Colonialism | imperial powers (most powerful contries) exercised ruthless control over their domains and organized them for maximum economic exploitation (slaves and big taxes) |
| Secularism | indifference to or rejection of organized religious affiliations or ideas (not active in church or do not go at all) |
| Many Questions about Religion??? | migration plays a large role in the diffusion of relgions, both universalizing and ethnic |
| Tibetan Buddhism | Tibetan? Buddhism splintered from Hinduism over 2500 years ago...appeared in Indea as a reaction / result of questions about HInduism teaching of the time |
| Monolingual States | countries in which only one language is spoken |
| Euskara | language spoken by the Basque people, survived unchanged for thousands of years (Basques have a strong identity to language and independent history) |
| Commodification | the process of placing a price on a good (item like corn or apple or milk) and then buying, selling, and trading the item |
| Toponyms | name of a place (ex. Martin Luther King Street) |
| Khoisan Family | Khoisan- the oldest languages of Subsaharan Africa (more than one- family of languages); it includes a "click sound" |
| The present number of countries and territories in the world is around... | 200. |
| In The Territorial Imperative, Rober Ardey argued that humans are concerned with... | collecting and securing territory. |
| Rober Sack's view of human territorial behavior implies an expression of control over space and time. This control is closely related to the concept of... | sovereignty. |
| The Peace of Westphalia is the seminal moment in the emergence of the European state. This marked the end of... | the Thirty Years War. |
| The promotion of the acquisition of walth through plunder, colonization, and the protection of home industries and foreign markets during Europe's rebirth was called... | mercantilism. |
| Proto-Indo-European | how, where, why language diffused (mixed / blended) into Europe over time; supported by the"conquest theory" that early speakers spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inabitants; beginning the blending of the Indo-European tounges |
| Madagascar Languages | Germanic, Romance, Baltic-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian |
| Standard Italian | Romance branch of Indo-European |
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