Demographic Transition
Conflict in Sudan
Language Theories
Migration
Diffusion
100
Describe CBR and CDR in Stage 1. What is overall RNI?
extremely high, little to no growth
100
Explain the Religious and Ethnic conflict that divided Sudan and led to a civil war?
North - Arab, Muslim South - black, Christian/animist
100
Anatolian and Kurgan theories both put the hearth of Proto Indo European where?
India
100
What was the largest forced migration in human history?
Slave Trade
100
Ethnic neighborhoods would be an example of which type of diffusion?
Relocation
200
Give an example of a country in Stage 4. Explain why
U.S. , Western Europe, Canada, etc.
200
Explain the economic aspect of this conflict
North - ports South - oil North controlled the government and the money
200
Renfrew and Dispersal both put the hearth of Proto - Indo - European where?
Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent
200
What is Ravenstein's Gravity model?
Relates the likelihood of migration between 2 places to the distance and population of the 2 places
200
Define contagious diffusion and give an example
spreads outward can affect everyone
300
Give an example of a country in Stage 2 and explain why
Subsaharan Africa, the Middle East
300
Describe the circumstances of the people in the Darfur?
mostly farmers and herders desertification spreading extremely poor
300
What is the conquest theory?
early conquerors spread west across Europe taking over lands and peoples and spreading their language
300
What are Ravenstein's 5 laws of migration?
1) rural more liketly to migrate 2) young people more likely to move internationally 3) migration generates countermigration 4) if moving long distance, big city 5) most move short distance
300
Why is McDonalds a good example of stimulus diffusion?
Different menu items all over the world ie. Veggie Burger
400
Explain why a country would be in stage 3? What is going on with birth rates and death rates, and WHY.
CBR starting to fall --> more urban living (less kids), more kids surviving due to improved medicine, etc CDR continuing to fall, pretty low, due to medical advancement, availability of food, better sanitation, etc.
400
Who are the Janjaweed?
tribes hired by the government to wipe out black Muslim tribes in the Darfur
400
What was the Renfrew Hypothesis?
Proto Indo European spread out from the Fertile Crescent as agriculture spread
400
What major internal migration happened in the U.S. following hte Civil War?
black migration to the Midwest and Northeast for jobs
400
Explain why fashion is a good example of hierarchical diffusion?
Paris --> models/celebrities --> big cities --> big box stores --> smaller towns
500
What major factor helps to bring down and keep birth rates low in stages 4 and 5
women having more opportunities for work and going to college
500
What is the ethnic and religious make up of the Darfur region?
mostly black Muslims, some Arab Muslim tribes (Janjaweed)
500
What did Jakob Grimm and William Jones study?
the idea that languages could be traced backwards and that languages of today were related Jones - Greek, Latin, Sanskrit Grimm - backward reconstruction
500
Explain the circumstances around the Irish migration of the 19th century to the U.S.
Potato famine British persecution
500
Explain the difference between distance decay and time-space compression
DD - only takes distance into account T/S C- takes into account technology
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