Urban Geography, Development, and Agriculture
Urban Geography
1. Know where the first agricultural hearth is
2. Know that agricultural surplus and social stratification led to the birth of cities
3. Know what an acropolis and agora is.
4 Greece and Rome: first planned cities in rectangular pattern
5. Industrial revolution in late 1700s/early 1800s led to large growth of cities
6. What were cities like in the industrial revolution?
7. Know the 6 maps (3 North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia) you colored in your notebook of
the various models of cities.
8. Know what zoning laws are
9. Cities in the periphery have the biggest differences between rich and poor
10. Know what Gentrification is
Development
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What are the 3 factors HDI is based on?
What is GNI?
Know what primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities are.
Know which kind of economic activities dominate in which kind of countries (core, periphery,
semi-periphery)
Know Rostow’s 5 stages of economic development
What are the 2 main ways developing countries are financed?
Know what the World Bank and IMF are.
Know Wallerstein’s World Systems classifications (core, semi-periphery, and periphery)
Know what Dependency theory is.
Know what neocolonialism is.
Agriculture
1. Know the slide “History of Agriculture” that starts with “Hunter-Gatherers” and ends with
“Modern Agribusiness”
2. Know the primary and secondary effects of the “Neolithic Revolution”
3. Know the difference between commercial and subsistence farming
4. Know the 6 kinds of commercial agriculture
5. Know the 2 environmental effects of live stock ranching
6. Overproduction in commercial farming (in developed countries)
7. Four strategies are being employed to distribute food to everyone in the world
8. Know the “Technical and Resource Limitation Problems”