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13703283888Rimland TheoryNicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.0
13703283889Heartland Theorythe belief of Halford Mackinder that the interior of Eurasia provided a likely base for world conquest1
13703283890World Systems TheoryTheory developed by Immanuel Wallerstein that explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semi periphery in terms of economic and political connections first established at the beginning of exploration in the late 15th century and maintained through increased economic access up until the present.2
13703283891BuhdismMeditate, tall buildings go towards sky3
13703283892HinduismLarge temple,Brahma,shiva and one other guy4
13703283893Islam5 pillars, quaran face Mecca5
13703283894compact stateideally circular with capital at the center ~ Ex. Lesotho ~ Ex. Swaziland6
13703283895fragmented state2 or more parts are separate from the state can be an island7
13703283896Prorupted Statea compact state with a large projecting extension:sticks out8
13703283897Perforated Statea state that completely surrounds another one9
13717906589Geometric boundarya fixed limit or extent that typically follows straight lines10
13717906590superimposed boundarya political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape11
13764299955Van Thunen ModelThe first ring is the town/city 2.dairying,vegetables,market gardens 3. Wood forest 4. Grain crops, hay fields 5. Meadows, grazing land12
13764856331vernacular regionA place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.13
13764856332formal regionAn area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics14
13769586254Where are the three main agricultural hearths?Central America North western South America Western Africa South east Asia15
13785724098Asian Tigersthe highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.16
13805591647agricultural sectorPrimary sector:Natural resource harvesting Secondary:factory Tertiary:consumer Quaternary:scientific methodology Quanary: high-level decision making17
13805808695Rostow's Modelfive stages a country goes through in developing their economy through international trade 1.traditional society 2. Preconditions for takeoff 3. Take off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Hi mass consumption18
13825647270remote sensingthe scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.19
13825647272GPSUsing satalite System for determiningAbsolute location of places and geographical features20
13825740084Distance DecayThe diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.21
13826034211cultural landscapeThe built environment of humans22
13826050757Spatial Perspectivethe essential questions and intellectual framework that looks "where" a specific phenomena locates, and searches for "why" the phenomena is happening there23
13826061139ConcentrationThe spread of something over a given area.24
13839369764Great MigrationMovement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.25
13839369765Censusthe official count of a population26
13839369766Voluntary MigrationMovement of an individual who consciously and voluntarily decides to locate to a new area- the opposite of forced migration27
13849326959natural increasePopulation growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths; does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements28
13849332444Creole languagea language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue29
13849355262lingua francaA common agreed language of business in an area where people speak different languages30
13849808901Edge CityA large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.31
13862167451relic boundarythey no longer exist as international boundaries.32
13952445087Expansion Diffusionoriginates in a central place and then expands outward in all directions to other locations33
13952445088Hierarchical DiffusionOriginates in a first order location and then moves down to second order location and from these to subordinate locations at increasingly local scales34
13952445089Contagious DiffusionBegins at a point of origin and then moves outward to nearby locations,ex Arab spring35
13952445090Stimulus DiffusionDiffuses then stimulates the creation of new products, gets better36
13952445091relocation diffusionBegins at a point of origin and then crosses a significant physical barrier ex ocean37

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