Study Guide for the Final Exam: HIST 2249 World Regional Geography Instructor: Dr. Youngs Pocatello, Section 01 Exam DATE & TIME: ! The Final Exam available on Moodle on Thursday, December 15 from 10:00am to 12:00pm noon ! 60 minutes (time limit starts when you begin exam) NO MAKE UP EXAMS Study Guide – NO Latin America (we sufficiently covered that region in Exam 2) Sub-Saharan Africa (Chapter 6) Southwest Asia & North Africa (Chapter 7) East Asia (Chapter 11) Test Format: map matching questions, multiple choice, true/false Test Content: lecture, textbook readings, in-class exercises and Videos, and mapping exercises Sub Saharan Africa setting the boundaries – regional trends countries and major cities (see place names list with mapping portfolio) Plateaus and basins landforms and terrain features desertification and transhumance (textbook) climate zones – map, distribution of major and minor types climographs – read and interpret agriculture and vegetation types – spatial distribution Sahel drought and famine – food insecurity (textbook) Ebola epidemic – medical and disease geography, impact demographic trends for this region (rural/urban, TFR) population centers and core areas major cities & one megacity (name it) impact & geography of HIV/AIDS on Africa patterns of settlement and land use fertility rates for women – family size life expectancy in this region (age) dominant language families, official languages religions of Africa indigenous Kingdoms, impact/patterns of European colonization historic trends and contexts – slave trade in Africa Sub Saharan Africa (continued) African Diaspora & African slave trade – location, route, # of people transported Colonial map of European claims to territories European encounters (scramble for Africa – textbook) Berlin Conference (textbook) Boko Haram – organization type, primary location of activity (textbook) Independence and decolonization Apartheid in South Africa (textbook) Independence for many Sub Saharan African countries (date range) postcolonial ethnic and political conflict (lecture & textbook) Kleptocracy (textbook) Refugees & Internally Displaced Persons roots of poverty in Africa (textbook) links to world economy – international investment countries (lecture & textbook) map matching questions – countries, cities, physical features, climate, religion, languages, refugees, food insecurity, IDPs, female labor participation rates, women in parliaments, indigenous African states, colonial Africa, population, environmental challenges, foreign aid & GNI Southwest Asia & North Africa Physical features Earthquake vulnerability in the region – locations, plate boundaries Regional population patterns (RNI, fertility rates, distribution across the region) Countires with the highest populations irrigation patterns & water use Magreb – location, define climate patterns – map and locations of m ...

1. Study Guide for the Final Exam: HIST 2249
World Regional Geography
Instructor: Dr. Youngs
Pocatello, Section 01
Exam DATE & TIME:
! The Final Exam available on Moodle
on Thursday, December 15 from 10:00am to 12:00pm noon
! 60 minutes (time limit starts when you begin exam)
NO MAKE UP EXAMS
Study Guide –
NO Latin America (we sufficiently covered that
region in Exam 2)
Sub-Saharan Africa (Chapter 6)
SouthwestAsia & North Africa (Chapter 7)
East Asia (Chapter 11)
Test Format: map matching questions, multiple choice,
true/false
Test Content: lecture, textbook readings, in-class
exercises and Videos, and mapping exercises
Sub Saharan Africa
setting the boundaries – regional trends
countries and major cities (see place names list with mapping

2. portfolio)
Plateaus and basins
landforms and terrain features
desertification and transhumance (textbook)
climate zones – map, distribution of major and minor types
climographs – read and interpret
agriculture and vegetation types – spatial distribution
Sahel
drought and famine – food insecurity (textbook)
Ebola epidemic – medical and disease geography, impact
demographic trends for this region (rural/urban, TFR)
population centers and core areas
major cities & one megacity (name it)
impact & geography of HIV/AIDS on Africa
patterns of settlement and land use
fertility rates for women – family size
life expectancy in this region (age)
dominant language families, official languages
religions of Africa
indigenous Kingdoms, impact/patterns of European colonization
historic trends and contexts – slave trade in Africa
Sub Saharan Africa (continued)
African Diaspora & African slave trade – location, route, # of
people transported
Colonial map of European claims to territories
European encounters (scramble for Africa – textbook)
Berlin Conference (textbook)

3. Boko Haram – organization type, primary location of activity
(textbook)
Independence and decolonization Apartheid in South Africa
(textbook)
Independence for many Sub Saharan African countries (date
range)
postcolonial ethnic and political conflict (lecture & textbook)
Kleptocracy (textbook)
Refugees & Internally Displaced Persons
roots of poverty in Africa (textbook)
links to world economy – international investment countries
(lecture & textbook)
map matching questions – countries, cities, physical features,
climate, religion,
languages, refugees, food insecurity, IDPs, female labor
participation rates, women
in parliaments, indigenous African states, colonial Africa,
population, environmental
challenges, foreign aid & GNI
Southwest Asia & North Africa
Physical features
Earthquake vulnerability in the region – locations, plate
boundaries
Regional population patterns (RNI, fertility rates, distribution
across the region)
Countires with the highest populations
irrigation patterns & water use
Magreb – location, define
climate patterns – map and locations of major and minor climate
types
water and human survival in this region
agricultural patterns (study textbook map)

4. pastoral nomadism
Geographic hearth areas (class lecture - major reglions,
locations)
Choke points – physical features, name and locate, strategic
value, countries
bordering each choke point
Environmental problems of the region – locations, types, causes
Cities of high population
Migration – reasons for population movement in this region,
destinations
foreign & migrant workforce – countries with high # of foreign
workers
Mesopotamia – river boundaries, location
Medina
Population pyramids discussed in class – by country, major
patterns
Rural settlement patterns & enviornmental factors influencing
settlement
Libyan Highway – location, destinations
Regligion and urban design
Dryland agriculture
Nile river & delta – location, impact on region
Anatolian pennisula, Levant
Oasis Life
Exotic rivers
Suez Canal – years constructed, location, countries
Hydropolitics (definition, examples of locations & issues in this
region)
Dominant languages, language families & regional patterns
Syrian migration –locations, pathways
Shiite and Sunni Muslims
The five pillars of Islam (textbook)

5. The Hajj (textbook)
urban settlement patterns (textbook)
Kurdish settlement, political status, nationhood
Old Jerusalem (Video in class & lecture notes & textbook map)
Quatar Video in class
Israel – creation, nation, ethnic groups
religious hearths of the region
OPEC – define
creation and transformation of Israel (textbook)
independence in the region – countries, years
Ottoman Empire (textbook, location, importance to geopolitics)
Arab-Israeli Conflict, West Bank (textbook & in class video)
Tunisia (Arab Spring, historic Urban morphology & city design)
map matching questions – countries, cities, physical features,
climate, religion,
languages, population, environmental challenges, agriculture,
geopolitical
challenges in the region
East Asia
Physical features – mountains, rivers, major islands &
peninsulas (lecture, map
portfolio)
Environmental hazards in this region
Latitude of region – compare to other regions
cultural features – countries, cities (lecture, map portfolio)
major landforms and sub-regions
latitudinal location and extent for the East Asia region,
compared to USA
North and South China – differences and commonalities
between these 2 areas
Loess plateau
China and energy production – major sources of electricity
(textbook)

6. climate zones – patterns, describe types, match location to
climate type
climographs (know how to read & interpret for various locations
noted in the
textbook climate map for this region)
tectonic activity in Japan (issues, tectonic plates, influence on
human activity)
Major islands of Japan (name, locations)
environmental concerns for East Asia – major types & map
locations
2011 earthquake and impact on Japan
Three Gorges Dam – issues, controversy, location (lecture notes
& textbook)
population concentrations & geographic patterns (in class
exercise, textbook)
Tokaido Corridor (location, description)
White Horse Village (video)
Capsule hotels
rates of natural increase around the region – in class exercise &
textbook
agricultural patterns across this region
environmental concerns in this region, relation to population
Ainu – location, ethnic tensions, description
Hui
Diaspora – major countries involved
Languages and language diversity in this region – map,
locations, types
Confucianism – major elements and ideas
Taiwan and sovereign state status, recognition (textbook)
urban patterns – major cities, settlement patterns (in class
exercise & textbook)
Chinese, Japanese & Korean writing – differences & similarities
ideographic writing, kanji, hiragana, katakana

7. language patterns map & description of patterns
major and minor religions
North and South Korea – creation, date, politics for each
nuclear weapons testing - countries & geopolitical tensions
Mt. Fuji video in class, sacred site & religions
nineteenth century European colonialism & spheres of influence
Special Administrative Region – location, description as
discussed in class
Han Chinese & non-Han Chinese groups (textbook)
One Child Policy
Geopolitical tensions – map of region, countries with ongoing
issues
Autonomous region
China’s “Great Leap Forward” (textbook)
Kuril islands – tensions and countries involved
shogunate (textbook)
Chinese territorial domain – Tibet
North & South Korea – 38th parallel
SEZs (special economic zones) (textbook)
Social and economic differentiation (textbook)
map matching questions – countries, cities, physical features,
climate, religion,
languages, population, environmental challenges, agriculture,
geopolitical
challenges in the region, sphere of influence
-End of study guide

8. For this DB Forum 4 assignment, please research free labor
markets around the world as well as your local labor market to
answer the questions presented in the DB Forum 4 instructions.
What type of market exists in your local area? What are the pros
and cons of a free labor market? Based on your research,
reading and analysis, is there a need for government regulation?
For the first question, what’s in your local area, I live in
Roanoke, Virginia – so you can research based on there.
INSTRUCTIONS: You are required to write a thread in
response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread
must be at least 300 words and demonstrate course-related
knowledge. Each thread must include 2 citations from
scholarly/peer-reviewed sources in addition to the text and
relevant scriptural integration, all in current APA format.
Textbook: Budd, J. W. (2012). Labor relations: Striking a
balance (4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin. ISBN:
9780078029431. (Has to be a listed reference).