GENV 212 Unit 4

Question 1

The City of Mohenjo-Daro

Answer 1

• Indus Valley
• Flourished between 2600 and 19000 BCE
• Extended over 250 hectares population 35,000
• Rectangle
• Deteriorated around 1700 BCE

Question 2

The City of Teotihuacán - Mesoamerica

Answer 2

• Located present day San Juan in Mexico
• City of the Gods or “Birth place of the gods”
  
  • Religious center
• 100,000 + population and 83 km
• Opportunity for learning and tourism

Question 3

The City of Machu Picchu - Mesoamerica

Answer 3

• Peru 70 km northwest of Cusco
• One of the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire

Question 4

The City of Tenochtitlán - Mesoamerica

Answer 4

• Capital city and center of Aztec Empire
• Founded 1325
• Huge metropolis
• 1519 was 400,000 people, largest and densest concentration in Meso-American history
• Mexico City is located same area
• Originally located on two small islands in Lake Texcoco
• Connected to the mainland by several causeway dikes

Question 5

The City of Cairo, Egypt - the Nile Region

Answer 5

• Capital of Egypt, one of largest cities in Africa
• Cairo started as the city of Memphis which was ancient capital of Lower Egypt located Nile Delta 25km south of current downtown Cairo
• Later became city of Fustat
• City of Cairo has been ruled by many dynasties

Question 6

Imperialism

Answer 6

Practice whereby a strong country extends authority over the territory, political system, or economic life of another country

Question 7

Colonialism

Answer 7

political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time

Question 8

Stages of Colonial Urbanization

Answer 8

1. Mercantile Colonialism (1500)
2. Transitional Period (1800)
3. Industrial Colonialism (1850)
4. Late Colonialism (1920)
5. Neo-Colonialism (1950)
6. New International Division of Labor (1970)

Question 9

Mercantile Colonialism

Answer 9

• Limited colonial presence in pre-existing settlements, trade usually in national products of local regions
• Impact on Cities: Modest effect and Cultural hybridization

Question 10

Transitional Period

Answer 10

• Reduced European interest
• shift to production in Indigenous cities meant increase cost of business for colonizers

Question 11

Industrial Period

Answer 11

• growth of Europeans’ need for raw materials and food led to search of territories, new European settlements and change of native city morphology
• Impacts on cities
  -technological: transportation
• political effects: small colonial elites controlled municipal governments

Question 12

Late Colonialism

Answer 12

• Increase depth of colonialism
• impacts led to
• intensification of European settlements
• introduction of town planning
• increase scale of public buildings

Question 13

Neo-Colonialism

Answer 13

Capitalists power dominate nations of global south
1950’s and ‘60’s independence for most colonies
led to rapid growth of Indigenous peoples

Question 14

New International Division of Labor

Answer 14

• Appearance of multiculturalism cooperations while increasing social polarization due to rising production cost and cheap labour.
• Relaxed government regulation and advancement in technology