. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . a marked change in the physicalenvironment. The natural occupation in all these tropical grasslandsis cattle-rearing, which tends to be nomadic as thedeserts are a{)proachcd. Towards the equatorial forests,owing to the increased rainfall, agricultural occupationspredominate and a wide range of products is chief arc maize, millet, cotton, sugar and tropicalfruits. Thus the Sudan regions include both lands ofwandering (the nomadic pastoral lands) and lands wheremans effort is met by a ready response on tbe part
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . a marked change in the physicalenvironment. The natural occupation in all these tropical grasslandsis cattle-rearing, which tends to be nomadic as thedeserts are a{)proachcd. Towards the equatorial forests,owing to the increased rainfall, agricultural occupationspredominate and a wide range of products is chief arc maize, millet, cotton, sugar and tropicalfruits. Thus the Sudan regions include both lands ofwandering (the nomadic pastoral lands) and lands wheremans effort is met by a ready response on tbe part ofnature. Occasional droughts not only spoil the crops,but tempt the pastoral shepherd to raid the territory ofthe settled agriculturist, r.^-. the conquest of the Hausasby the Eulas. REGIONS IN HOT LANDS 11 The African Sudan rc^nons are of more importancethan the olliers, and supi)ort a far greater population,for the native population of the South American andAustralian rc^^ions are very small. It is worth whilenoting, too, that the latter lands had no native domesti-. Fig. 5.—Diagram showing bundles of the suns rays striking theearths surface at different angles. cated animals until these were introduced after the landshad been discovered and occupied by Europeans. (c) The Tropical Monsoon Type. The chief factor which distinguishes these lands fromothers and makes it possible to place them in one groupis that of climate. In some respects they resemble theSudan lands, for both lie within the tropics, and, exceptwhere very high mountains or plateaus exist, both are 12 MAJOR NATURAL REGIONS OF WORLD very hot in summer and very warm or hot in , both have well-marked dry winters and hotsummers during which most of the rain falls. Thedifference between the two lies partly in the characterof the winds and partly in the amount of the , Indo-China and Southern China are the typicalmonsoon lands. They lie on the margin of a vast land-mass and experience o
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