AP human geography unit 5.2

Dispersed Settlements

Farmers lived in homes spread thought the country

common in challenging environments

Encourage individual self Efficiency

Linear Settlements

Buildings & human activities organized closer to water or a transportation route

Metes & Bounds

Metes-short distances ex from oak tree 100 yards

bounds-larger areas ex streams roads

Public land survey system

measuring/recording size of features on earth’s surface

-created rectangular plots of consisten size

Town ship areas

six miles long six miles wide

section 640 acres could be divided to smaller lots

French Long Lot system

farms long & thin that ran to river

clusterd/nucleated settlements

Homes near each other in a village has a strong sense of place, rural residents, share service

what is the major hearth of agriculture

The fertile crescent

independent innovation

crops & animals being domesticated in multiple regions without interaction of people

ex wheat & pigs

Columbian exchange

After Christopher Columbus Global movement of plants & animals between afro Eurasia and the Americas

agricultural exchange

led to trade of diseas aswell killing 90% of the population

were are long lot systems common

quebec

What do metes & bounds result in ?

dispersed settlemnts

what does long lot result in

linear system pattern