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SOUTH AMERICA
Map Test and Distribution, Maps Map Test and Distribution, Maps availableavailableQuestions about map test?Questions about map test?Midterm Content and structureMidterm Content and structure No dates; virtual field trips, yesNo dates; virtual field trips, yes
ReviewReviewSouth AmericaSouth America Overview, physiography, climateOverview, physiography, climate Inca and Spanish colonialismInca and Spanish colonialism Culture spheresCulture spheres Economic integration Economic integration
Frequency Distribution - Map Test 1
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Map Test I Grade Distribution
Average = 71.4% B-
Midterm: Thursday 10 February
Introduction, Europe, Russia, & Middle America.Multiple choice: 25 @ 2 = 50Definitions: ¾ @ 10 = 30Essay: 1/3@20 = 20
75 minutes: Examination book and scantronNeed pen and pencilTwo rooms
South America: Principal Geographic Qualities
Physiography: Andes mountains and the Amazon basin. Brazil: 50% Population: concentrated near the coastal periphery. Cultural pluralism Regional economic interaction is low but growing! Rapid urban growth
PhysicalEnvironment
Precipitation
The Inca Empire
Culture Hearth-intermontane basin around Cuzco (1200-1535 A.D.)Altiplanos were key to settlement pattern 20 million subjects at zenith
Ecuador to Chile Transportation networks: an integrated empire
Despite rugged terrain And no wheels!
Centralized state with rigid class structure
Indigenous peoples
&Colonial domains
Tordesillas Line Spain organized colonies into Viceroyalties
SOUTH AMERICA’SCULTURE SPHERES
CULTURE SPHERES
Tropical-plantation
Resembles Middle America’s RimlandLocations, soils, & tropical climates favor plantation crops, especially sugar.Initially relied on African slave labor
CULTURE SPHERES
European-commercial
The most European part of South AmericaIncludes the Pampas - temperate grasslandsProductive commercial agricultureEuropean immigration
CULTURE SPHERES
Amerind-subsistence
Coincides with the former Inca EmpireFeudal socioeconomic structure persistsIncludes some of South America’s poorest areasHigh elevationSubsistence agriculture
CULTURE SPHERES
Undifferentiated
Sparsely populated Isolation and lack of change- notable features Development potential of Amazonia Last frontier?
SOUTH AMERICA’S CULTURE SPHERES
Tropical-plantation
European-commercial
Amerind-subsistence
Mestizo-transitional
Undifferentiated
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
Mercosur Customs Union launched in 1995
FTA + Common external tariffs Southern cone:
Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, & Paraguay
Andean Community Initially formed in 1969 (Andean Pact) Restarted in 1995 Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, And
Bolivia
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION(CONTINUED)
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Western Hemisphere FTA
NAFTA CARICOM CACM Mercosur Andean Community