Culture Hearth

DEFINITION

a culture hearth is a "heartland", a source area, innovation center, a place of origin of a major culture

ANCIENT CULTURE HEARTHS

Where?
  • Mesopotamia
  • Nile Valley Indus Valley
  • Wei-Huang Valley
  • Ganges Valley
  • Mesoamerica
  • West Africa
  • Andean America

When?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colonialism

DEFINITION

the attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its economic and cultural principles in another territory

WHY? / MOTIVES

  1. promote religious beliefs
  2. obtain a source of resources
  3. obtain power and status
  4. geopolitical / geostrategic reasons
"God, Greed, and Glory"

WHEN?

EUROPEAN COLONIZATION - WHO?

Effects of Colonialism

[developed by students in earlier Harper Geography courses]
  1. economic development modified for the benefit of the colonizer
  2. inappropriate technologies introduced
  3. coastal states gain
  4. decline in political stability
  5. borders ignore cultural geography
  6. migration routes closed
  7. colonial cities arise
  8. foreign model of government introduced
  9. decrease in death rates / increase in population growth
  10. colonial transportation networks
  11. change of trade patterns
  12. dual economies introduced
  13. foreign system of education
  14. new religions and languages introduced
  15. others