World Geo. Study Guide
By John Lisenby
Things to study...
- An example of how physical geography can affect a country's economy is Japan being an islan or coffee in Columbia or audio Arabia with their oil
- A way immigrants add a diverse culture to a country is by combining their cultures with the cultures in that country.
- The event that had the greatest impact on Mexico politically, economically, and culturally is the conquistadors.
- A result of the global spread of American culture is the spread of the English language.
- The event that led to the introduction of new food in Western Europe is the Colombian exchange, which is the when Christopher Columbus came to America.
- The west was the direction the huge migration shift went in the 1800s.
- The natural and man made borders was what created the north and south borders of America.
- NAFTA was created to increase global cooperation between member nations.
- The Europeans were impacted by the Colombian exchange because of the transfer of resources and ideas, and also a new place to trade with.
- Most South American countries got their independence between the years 1790-1828.
- The Cold War impacted the political landscape of Europe because some countries are very similar to Russia economically, politically, and culturally.
- The U.N. was created to keep world peace between the nation, reduce trade barriers, and to provide humanitarian aid.
- The geographic circumstance that hampered Russia's success in foreign policy was the lack of warm water parts for commerce.
- The major change that was going on in 1989 during the democratic elections with Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine was the diffusion of democratic ideas.
- The reason for the population shift in Europe after the formation of the EU was because the people migrated to Western Europe to find jobs because it was a more industrialized.
- Russia would hurt their people more than it would hurt us if they stopped buying our goods.
- North Africa is different than the rest of Africa is because the country is split up in two because of the Sahara.
- Nelson Mandela is a hero to many South Africans because he led the fight to stop apartheid.
- Some negative culural effects the Europeans had on Africa is that they caused cultural diffusion and cause a lot of civil wars, dictatorships, corrupt rulers, etc.
- What happened next to Africa was they fought for their independence.
- The reason af I a has a relatively poor economy even though they have an abundance of resources is because of a lack of infrastructure, lack of education, and lack of a political system.
- The challenge of globalization the 2009 h1n1 flu and the 2015 Ebola case demonstrated was because of the increase in travel there was also a increase in disease.
- Some important values to African tribes have are strong traditional beliefs, government with family ties, and conflicts about land and territory.
- The reason there is a large African influence on Carribean food is because it was a stopping point in slave transfer to Europe.
- The reason the Arab Spring has changed many middle eastern and North African states is because they kicked out the totalitarian rulers.
- The reason Africa has changed so much because of foreign conquistadors and its physical features is because of forced conversions to Islam, language, culture, and it created a boundary between the north and south.
- The reason isreals border has changed so much is because of conflicts with neighbors.
- The thing oil rich nations such as the Middle East can do to ensure their longtime success economically is to diversify their economy.
- Women in the traditional Islamic societies of Saudia arabia must cover their heads and are very restricted legally.
- Two major reasons Saudia Arabia is succeeding and is important to a lot of people is because of their religion and because of oil.
- The Middle East is the leader in desalination because of the lack of fresh water.
- The reason some countries continue to gain wealth because of their natural resources and other don't is because natural resources are not distributed evenly across the earth.
- The Himalayas were created with the movement of tech tonic plates near India.