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World Regional Geography
Day 1 - Ch. 1 - Introduction
Day 3 - Ch. 5 - Middle and South America
> 1. Official language of Belize = (English), Brazil = ~~Brazilian~~ (Portuguese), Guyana = (English)(Guiana = French), Venezuela = ~~Portuguese~~ (Spanish)
> 2. Main religion of Middle/South America = (Catholicism)
> 3. Major political/social process that shaped area = (Capitalism, Imperialism)
> 4. 2 Key environmental processes contributing to distress in Middle/South America = (Climate Change (Oil spills, deforestation, drought, rising sea levels))
* Indigenous populations: Aztecs, Mayans, Incans ("tribes" were broken up and basically independent)
* Civilizations were extremely advanced for the time: advanced urban planning, running water,
* Civilizations are not *gone*
* Columbus tried to get to India (failed, landed in Caribbean) (they didn't actually think Earth was flat)
* Took slaves but they just ran away and hid lol
* Triangular Trade: Europe, Africa, and Asia -> Americas & Americas -> them.
* Sugarcane -> Americas & Tobacco -> them
* Sugar = **Important** Because molasses, tea, only grows in humid/hot
* Slaves worked to death for 3ish years and replaced with new one (b/c more cost efficient)
* Slaves taken to mainly Middle/South America at first, then to North America in 1600s
* Polynesian Triangle: Middle/South American natives traded w/ Pacific natives long before 1492 (No exploitation)
* 3 Gs Gold, God, and Glory
* Money/resources
* Basically no chance for peace. Especially with the present religious beliefs
* God = convert
* Glory = power/reputation
* Triangular Society Hierarchy
* Peninsulares (Spaniards born in Spain)
* Creoles (Spaniards born in New Spain)
* Mestizos (Spanish & Native American) / Mullatos (Spanish & black) (mixed)
* Full natives / Full black
* Imperialism: US becoming pretty dang prominent world power
* James Monroe makes Monroe Doctrine
* Told Europe nobody could dabble in Western hemisphere but us.
* Roosevelt Corollary: Basically adds protection to Monroe Doctrine & justifies many interventions
* Guatemala (United Fruit Company) lobbies Dwight to help in rebellion. Claims 2 democratically elected leaders were actually socialists (company had to pay more minimum wage).
* CIA sends in covert propaganda forces to topple a democratic gov. (military lays down arms bc of immense propaganda success)
* Sparks new 40 yr Civil War (1959-1990s). Hundreds of thousands of people dead or missing
* Drug cartels take advantage of split attention. Grow big because of power-vacuums in local areas
Day 4 - Ch. 5 - Middle and South America
* Powerty & drug violence riddles Middle/South America
* Drug demand mostly Europe & NA
* Profit comes from **THOSE BUYING THE DRUGS** (Problem is not just Middle/Central, is the *world's* problem)
* Climate change = extreme weather (*your* extreme weather becomes more extreme and more common)
* Central America = more drought, Amazon = too much rain (flooding)
* Latin America most worried about Climate change
* Places like US & China not worried b/c we don't really feel the effects
* We are rich countries. We just fix it with money
* They don't have money to fix it because of unstable governments (often caused by us)
* Extreme temperatures spike after cars become common in 1950s-60s (lots of infrastructure to support cars)
* Global natural disasters increased like 3x since 1980s.
* Crop yields dropping as much as 50% in most places bc of a 3 degree Celcius change by 2050. (keep in mind that populations will continue rising)
* Plant more to get less while needing more means more area needed = bad news.
* Cattle grazing contribues to deforestation bc of grazing land
Day 5 - Ch. 5 - Middle and South America
* Mass migration from climate change leads to lots of issues
* Farmers leave country to find new farm jobs.
* Farm land decreasing
* Not enough work
* People move from rural to urban areas (Intra-national not just Inter-national migration)
* Urban areas then contribute even more to climate change
* Most places other than NA
* Inner = wealthier/privileged, Outer = lower-income/less-privileged
* Infrastructure in inner city, not much further from city.
* Richer live where more infrastructure is
* (Starting to become the case in NA bc of high cost of living)