Chapter Objectives

After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:

1. Appreciate the tremendous complexity and diversity of the world.

2. Understand the trends of globalization and localization.

3. Describe the Cold War and the significance of it coming to an end.

4. Distinguish between core, periphery, and semi-periphery positions and characteristics.

5. Discuss the validity of the One World idea.

6. Explain how people and cultures interact with the natural environment.

7. Know how geography examines and analyzes the world.

8. List the three main approaches in geographic studies.

9. Define the three regional scales.

10. Identify the different kinds of regions and how regions are changed.

11. Enumerate the nine world regions studied in this book.

12. Summarize each of the five phases of world history.

13. Explain why capitalism has become dominant in the world economic system.

14. Know characteristics of mini-systems.

15. Trace the evolution of trade and interaction through the phases of world history.

16. Describe the characteristics of the four different Industrial Revolutions

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