ORGANIZATION OF THE GEOGRAPHIC SPACE
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Geographic space is produced and organized according to the interests of some individual or population, and not of all. The produced geographic spaces in the history passing, always showed that their production, their organization, their appropriation and his usage were determined by the relations of the social preeminent groups (politician, economic, religious and military) existing between the social groups of the diverse human societies.
The Production of the Geographic Space in the Antiquity (Asian way of production): is one of the forms of social organization that marked the passage of the primitive community for the society of classes.
It consisted of a certain type of State, represented in the figure of an emperor or tyrant, who together with a privileged and dominant social rank, to a great extent dictated the "rules" of appropriation, production and space organization.
The deprived Earth property did not exist and the work force was explored by the State and the tyrant. In that way of production the State was omnipresent, that is to say, it was of him who emanated all the power on all and mainly.
That type of State, characterized among others the civilizations Egyptian and Mesopotamia (Sumerians, acadians, amorits, asirios and heatings).
Today, when we contemplated to huge works fruit of the human work on the natural space, we did not stop to think, that they were constructed to control of the dominant group, by the dominated group, that had its force of work intensively explored.
What is the meaning of this? . It means that the production and the organization of the geographic space are in favor deeply noticeable in special of the work of some, and not of all the members of the society.
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