Map of the "Heartland Theory", as published by Mackinder in 1904. According to Mackinder, Earth's land surface was divisible into: The World Island, comprising the interlinked continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe (Afro-Eurasia). This was the largest, most populous, and richest of all possible land combinations.

heartland, region of Eurasia whose control was posited by the British political geographer Halford Mackinder in the early 20th century as the key to world domination in an era of declining importance for traditionally invincible sea power.

2018年9月10日 · Mackinder's paper suggested that the control of Eastern Europe was vital to control of the world. Mackinder postulated the following, which became known as the …

The Geographical Pivot of History: Map of the "Heartland Theory," as published by Mackinder in 1904. The map is in the public domain. The Belt and Road Initiative alongside the Shanghai...

Mackinder represents the world by showing three elements which have a particular importance and are described in the legend of the map which is found underneath it. They are the ‘ Pivot area – wholly continental ’, the ‘ Outer crescent – wholly oceanic ’, and the ‘ Inner crescent – partly oceanic and partly continental ’.

Mackinder’s Heartland Theory is a geopolitical theory that was first proposed by British geographer and politician Halford Mackinder in 1904. According to the theory, the key to world dominance lies in controlling the “heartland,” which is the vast landmass of Eurasia stretching from Eastern Europe to the Far East, and including the ...

The one great continent, which Mackinder called “the World-Island”, he further subdivided into six regions: the European coastland (Western and Central Europe), the Monsoon or Asian coastland (India, China, Southeast Asia, Korea and eastern Siberia), Arabia (the Arabian peninsula), the Sahara (North Africa), the Southern Heartland (Africa ...

2021年12月6日 · In a famous lecture delivered to the Royal Geographic Society in 1904, Mackinder provided the defining explanation of the deep historical forces that shaped the Eurasian century. First was the end of the ‘Columbian epoch’ — that 400-year age of exploration and imperial expansion. By 1900, the great empires had mapped and divided the world.

Mackinder’s world map on the Mercator projection immensely exaggerated the area of the frozen Arctic Ocean and created a wrong impression that to the north of the heartland lays a large expanse of ice only. After the defeat of Germany in the Second World War, the former Soviet Union emerged as a great power in the world.

2023年11月8日 · Mackinder’s theory was a model to place the broad sweep of world history on the stage provided by global geography. He identified a "world island" composed of the continents of Africa and Eurasia, which accounted for 2/3 of the …