WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Creating a settlement is like ____
A
Taking all the natural resources and leaving
B
Controlling a place from far away
C
Moving in, clearing land for farming, and building towns like you’re going to stay awhile
D
Being welcomed into the homes of the indigenous people and learning their ways without forcing your beliefs upon them..wouldn’t that be nice?
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A compact settlement is based on farming. These are mostly found in highly productive alluvial plains like Indo-Gangetic Plains, the Hwang Ho Valley, Valley of Nile. The houses are compact and congested with narrow plains. The size of these settlements depends on nature and resources of surrounding country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Referring to Stone (1960), settlement geography is. the description and analysis of the distribution of buildings by which people attach themselves to the land. Further, that the geography of settling designate the action of erecting buildings in order to occupy an area temporarily or permanently.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are generally three types of settlements: compact, semi-compact, and dispersed. Each is based on its population density. Compact settlements have the highest density of population.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rural settlements in India can broadly be put into four types: • Clustered, agglomerated or nucleated, • Semi-clustered or fragmented, • Hamleted, and • Dispersed or isolated.

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