How can the resources / ʻāina be leveraged by a group leader in the middle ages? Would this be impacted by leadership character traits? How?
The resources/ ʻāina can be leveraged by a group leader in many different ways, whether furthering technological advancements, agricultural use, or the development of society. Leadership traits can affect the effectiveness of leveraging resources for example if there is an irresponsible leader who makes poor decisions vs a responsible leader. Then the effectiveness of leveraging such resources wouldnʻt be as great compared to if a very responsible leader tried leveraging resources. Leadership traits that would be able to leverage resources would be people who are very responsible, they think ahead for the future, are sustainable, and look to benefit the people that they rule. The printing press which was invented by Johannes Gutenberg was able to mass produce large numbers of books which made books available to a wider audience which then led to greatly increasing the spread of literacy, and education in Europe.
-Trevor How can geography impact the resources/ ʻāina a group controls? does this impact the way a civilization evolves and behaves towards other groups? How/why? |
The geography of a land, according to modern standards, includes five things; location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions. The resources of any one nation can be drawn from any of those themes, whether it be the physical characteristics of a nation, its place, allowing it access to basic necessities like metal ores and food sources. But the ideals and resources that the nation does not have can have an effect on how an entity interacts with its neighbors. For example, early 20th century Germany, due to its accelerated industrialization, began to lack in resources and therefore moved to expand, attempting to conquer its surrounding nations. Therefore, The geography of a land, due to its 5 primary characteristics, impacts the people who dwell within.
However, the geography, and its relative themes, not only affects the outlook a budding nation has to acquire more resources, but rather it also affects the ideological and political views on any particular person or political entity. For example, the beliefs of Marxism, and eventually communism as well, find their roots in the 19th century economies of England and Scotland. This is a period in time which, due to the exploitation of the poor in order to fuel nationalistic agenda, which is, in turn, merely an effect of the geograghical theme of place, having the poor, working class citizens do the manual labour to harvest the resources of the land. Moreover, the resources found in any particular location, such as the people, animals, or spices, can prompt a larger nation to conquer and colonize, in order to pursue is nationalist agenda, which commonly prompts the nation to degrade the resident people of color. An example of such are the various political cartoons created in the wake of the overthrow, degrading the former nation to a small, incompetent child in some cartoons. -Hoakea |
What role would the Sustainability rights play in leveraging such resources as civilizations grow and evolve?
The role sustainability rights would play in leveraging such resources as civilizations continue to grow and evolve is possibly affecting the trade of goods. Trade has a direct effect on the environment because the process to get those resources result in increased pollution and degradation of natural resources. An example of this is the amount of emissions going into the atmosphere from production factories and the machinery used to collect certain natural resources. But, it can also have a positive effect by supporting economic growth and helping to make technologies more accessible and efficient, which in turn could help towards being more sustainable in the process to get said resources. For example, the money made from the trade could be used towards creating more sustainable ways to produce said resources. Along with the innovation of new technologies to increase the efficiency of production.
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