Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts
age ofimperialism, when Western, European-based culture was forcefully, and frequently violently, carried to most of the world’s ...
because several European countries spread their versions of the faith to every corner of the colonial realm. Expansion diffusion ...
spread contagiously, especially in the era of visual media and the Internet, when mil- lions of people have almost instantaneous ...
agents shaped the nature of cultures into some predictable pattern of characteris- tics. To some degree, the emergence of cultur ...
specific to the culture under examination—few scholars attempted to find com- monalities that would allow for the generalization ...
variety of cultureregionsand culturallandscapes, elements affectingcultural identityand the emergence ofcultural hearths, and fo ...
In some cases outsiders may join the group, but such a newcomer must indicate that he or she has absorbed all of the characteris ...
event as a defining moment in the history of their nation. To many Serbs, the sacri- fice at Kosovo represents the seminal event ...
as centers of innovation and artistic and scientific achievement, with complex social orders and sophisticated political systems ...
As such systems became more complex over time, a class of specialists in the art of writing, typically working as scribes, recor ...
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D Deforestation Over most of human history, the majority of thepopulationhas populated forested portions of the planet. The fore ...
fiber, shelter, and numerous other purposes. The advent of agriculture supplanted trees with crops. Other human deforestations i ...
gas carbon dioxide. As deforestation proceeds, it is estimated to be responsible for over a fifth of the world’s carbon dioxide ...
The second stage of the model, often called the “early expanding” or “early industrial” stage, reflects the impact of advancemen ...
not replacing themselves in the population. Average family size is four or less. A country at this stage can grow substantially ...
American Atacama is taken to be the driest land region on the planet containing locationswhere it is manyyearsbetween rainfall e ...
effective in deserts because of the lack of vegetation to hold soils and small pieces of weathered rock in place. Although sand ...
The popular image of a desert is a hot, dry area devoid of vegetation, but this stereotype is not uniformly true. Net primary pr ...
potential. There are no worldwide assessments but case studies have been conducted in several areas. How much land has undergone ...
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