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    Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844 – August 9, 1904) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum ("living space")...
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  • injunction to ensure control of the geographical pivot of history." Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), influenced by thinkers such as Darwin and zoologist Ernst...
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  • (1880-1936), Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859), Karl Ritter (1779-1859), Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904), Rudolf Kjellén (1864-1922), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914)...
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  • Alexander von Humboldt, Friedrich Ratzel would lay the foundations for geopolitik, Germany's unique strain of geopolitics. Ratzel wrote on the natural division...
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    overpopulation, Ratzel said that Imperial Germany (1871–1918) required overseas colonies to which surplus Germans ought to emigrate. Friedrich Ratzel's metaphoric...
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    ma'ulu'ulu becoming the Fijian vakamalolo, are evident throughout. Friedrich Ratzel in his 1896 publication The History of Mankind, writes about the Fijian...
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  • to imagine the sound of "breaking the hoops of train-oil flasks". Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind (1896), when discussing food materials in...
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    25 July 2023. "Space and Society: Cultural Regions". Brown, Nina "Friedrich Ratzel, Clark Wissler, and Carl Sauer: Culture Area Research and Mapping"...
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    evolutionary laws exist disregarding whether men recognize them. Similarly, Friedrich Ratzel observed that the "drive toward the building of continually larger...
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  • association found expression in the work of the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel, who in 1897 in his book Politische Geographie, developed the concept...
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    Socialism Friedrich Rainer (1903–1947), Austrian Nazi politician, Gauleiter as well as a state governor of Salzburg and Carinthia Friedrich Ratzel, German...
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    "geopolitics". His work was influenced by Friedrich Ratzel. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, and Ratzel, Kjellén would lay the foundations for...
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    safflower dyestuff in the production of beni itajime shibori.: 1  Friedrich Ratzel reported in The History of Mankind during 1896, that in Micronesia...
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    Minahasans of Sulawesi, and some non-Islamized groups in Sumatra. Friedrich Ratzel reported in 1896 that deformation of the skull, both by flattening...
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  • status of the Dravidians was initially disputed. In 1898, ethnographer Friedrich Ratzel remarked about the "Mongolian features" of Dravidians, resulting in...
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  • in the surrounding area. In Ra'iātea a legend reported by Professor Friedrich Ratzel in 1896 gave a picture of his all-pervading power. In the Marquesas...
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    " Marquesans had "a society in which households were polyandrous". Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 that in the New Hebrides...
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  • Degei. Degei hatched an egg from which the first humans came to Earth. Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 a religious practice enjoined...
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    Political geographers such as Friedrich Ratzel of Germany and Halford Mackinder of Britain also supported imperialism.: 117  Ratzel believed expansion was necessary...
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    came from Samoa, were led by a man named Raho. In 1896, the scholar Friedrich Ratzel recorded a Samoan legend about Samoans' relationship to Rotuma: "Thus...
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    the writings of Oswald Spengler, Alexander Humboldt, Karl Ritter, Friedrich Ratzel, Rudolf Kjellén, and Halford J. Mackinder. Geopolitik contributed to...
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    by Darwin in mid-century (which decisively influenced the work of Friedrich Ratzel, who had academic training as a zoologist and was a follower of Darwin's...
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    sevusevu), and were important in negotiations between rival chiefs. Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 that, in Fiji, whales' or...
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  • Haddon Alice Beck Kehoe David H. Kelley A. L. Kroeber W. J. Perry Friedrich Ratzel W. H. R. Rivers Everett Rogers Wilhelm Schmidt Grafton Elliot Smith...
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  • Schmidt. Frobenius was influenced by Richard Andree, and his own teacher Friedrich Ratzel. These scholars believed that a limited number of Kulturkreise developed...
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    as well as the Pleiades, and was considered the lord of the year. Friedrich Ratzel The History of Mankind. (London: MacMillan, 1896) Vol1 Page 314. URL:...
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    The largest Motu village is Hanuabada, northwest of Port Moresby. Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 on tattooing in Melanesia...
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    until pieces a yard wide, and 20 to 25 yards long, are produced. — Friedrich Ratzel, (1896) The fetaʻaki is almost always painted. It then becomes ngatu...
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    visiting London, where she encountered the works of Friedrich Ratzel. She went to Germany to seek out Ratzel and study with him at the University of Leipzig...
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  • with their husbands, were inclined to possess each other in common". Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 that in Hawaii a kind of...
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