GEOG 100

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GEOG 100 Day 22

• Review for the Final

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Housekeeping Items

• I need the PowerPoint and written summary from
  the Indian food group. Anyone else who owes me
  (e.g. Sophie) should get it in right away.
• Today we will review for the final on Wednesday.
  We will cover from Sub-Saharan Africa on, and
  will take the form of true false/ multiple
  choice, short answers, and essay questions, with
  an emphasis on the last two categories. It will
  be marked out of 100 and then multiplied by .15.

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Chapter 7 Sub-Saharan Africa

• What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa
  and how did it begin?
• What has happened to key African natural
  resources and why?
• What are some of the key environmental issues in
  Africa?
• How has the partition of the continent by
  colonial powers affected the political stability
  of current nation-states?
• How did the Cold War play out in Africa?

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Chapter 7 Sub-Saharan Africa

• What are some historic African civilizations,
  when did they function, and what were some of
  their key achievements?
• What was the policy of apartheid in South Africa
  and when did it end?
• What are some of the trends in Africa
  demographics?
• How has HIV/ AIDS affected the continent and what
  has helped to drive the epidemic? (Note Nelson
  Mandela has described it as a greater challenge
  than apartheid.)

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Chapter 7 Sub-Saharan Africa

• What are structural adjustment programs and what
  have some of their shortcomings been?
• What is the role of women in the economy and
  society?
• What does the debate about female circumcision
  centre on?
• What is involved with one commodity economies?

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Chapter 8 South Asia

• Of what significance are the summer monsoon rains
  in the South Asian sub-continent?
• How long ago did the first agricultural
  civilization develop in South Asia?
• What impacts did the invasion of the Mughals
  have?
• How do city and village life play out in India?

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Chapter 8 South Asia

• What impact did British colonialism have on the
  region?
• Where have Indians and Pakistanis subsequently
  settled?
• Who was the main leader of the Indian
  independence movement?
• When India won its independ-ence in 1947, what
  happened?

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Chapter 8 South Asia

• What are the principal religious groups in South
  Asia?
• What is the caste system?
• What are some of the major political and military
  conflicts in the region past and present?
• What are some of the population growth and family
  planning issues in the region?

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Chapter 8 South Asia

• What can be said about the regions ethnic and
  language diversity?
• What is the position of women and how is it being
  affected by technology?
• What are some issues and trends in agriculture?
• What kinds of economic changes are occurring,
  particularly in India?
• What is micro-credit and where did it originate?
• What are some key environmental issues?

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Chapter 9 East Asia

• How old is Chinese civilization?
• What is Confucianism and what other philosophies/
  religions have influenced the region?
• How did colonialism manifest itself in East Asia?
• Who were the Kuomintang and what was their
  eventual relationship with the Communist Party of
  China?
• What happened to East Asia during World War II
  and who were the principal players?
• How did the scene change post-WWII?

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Chapter 9 East Asia

• What is the Japanese economic model and how has
  it been emulated by what have been called the
  Asian tigers?
• By contrast, what was the economic model under
  Mao?
• Now that China has partially embraced the free
  market model, what are the implications for the
  global economy? For global ecology?
• What is happening economically within China?

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Chapter 9 East Asia

• Who are the Han and what propor-tion of Chinas
  population do they comprise?
• What indigenous groups exist in East Asia?
• Where in East Asia are human rights an issue and
  how?
• What about the 1-child policy? What was its goal,
  has it succeeded, and with what unexpected
  consequences?
• How is the region susceptible to natural
  disasters?

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Chapter 10 Southeast Asia

• What is Sundaland and how has it affected the
  cultural and biodiversity of the region?
• What kind of resource activity is occurring in
  Southeast Asia and with what social and
  ecological impacts?
• How was the region affected by colonialism?
• What happened in Cambodia with Pol Pot and the
  Khmer Rouge?
• What are some of the key agricultural products of
  the region?
• What is the maid trade?

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Chapter 10 Southeast Asia

• What is the scope of the sex trade in Thailand?
• What have been the positive and negative effects
  of rising tourism?
• What are the dominant religions in the region?
• What are gender relations like?
• What kinds of political tensions and pressures
  exist?
• What are some of the main environmental issues?

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Chapter 11 Oceania

• What is an atoll?
• What is an endemic species and why are there so
  many, particularly in Australia?
• What are the three main cultural groups?
• How did the Polynesians manage to colonize much
  of the Pacific?
• What was the impact of colonialism and how are
  its effects still being felt?
• What are some stereotypes about people in this
  region?
• How have people adapted European elements and
  made them their own?
• Key environmental issues?