Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part two. The field of transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

Special Problems in Transportation 233 39. Which is the largest of the interior cities? How does it compare with the largest of the seaports? Study the map of the Nile River to account for the location of Cairo. What three kinds of transportation routes meet at this point? 41. How does primary production combine with transportation to cause the growth of Cairo? Give another reason for its growth. How does Khartum communicate with its hinterland and with the lower Nile ? Johannesburg, the great gold-mining center on the Witwaters- rand in South Africa, is also a railroad center. 13. Is this chiefly because its products must be carried out to distant markets, or because machinery, laborers, food, and clothing must be brought to it? Explain. 14. If the great Witwaters gold deposits had been located in Central Africa, would the growth of a city have taken place more or less rapidly than at Johannesburg? Why? Fez and Morocco, or Marakesh, like many other great overgrown villages near the borders of the Sahara, are the collecting points for wheat, barley, wool, hides, and other local products, and are meet- ing points of caravan routes from the desert. They also, in a primi- tive way, carry on manufacturing, such as tanning leather, making leather goods, and weaving cotton and woolen cloths. Other centers, such as Kano and Ibadan in Nigeria, are even larger than Fez, but are not listed among the African cities because they are unimportant commercially. Their size is due not so much to transpor- tation routes and primary products as to the desire of the natives to be within the protection of a powerful chief and behind the thick mud walls that surround the town. The houses are usually one story high and are made of sun-dried mud. £5. In developing communication between Algiers and interior towns, as Timbuktu, what are the advantages or disadvantages of employing (a) railways; (b) automobiles; (c) airplanes? Map exercise, continued. Add to your map of African ports the impor- tant interior centers of population. Put in parentheses under each the name of the country in which it is. and the European nation that is in control. Under each of the names on your map write the approximate length of (a) the largest railroad running out of or through it, and (b) the internal waterway on which it is located. Sum up your conclusions as to transportation and primary production in Africa compared with North America. 47

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