Geography Notes Essay, Research Paper

Topic: Geography Review

I. Using Geography to study history

? Maps are major tools for geography. They also help explain historical developments

? Historical maps also explain the Actions of certain people and why they did such things

? Other maps help explain why different people did different things with land

? The reason Historians use geography is because where they live or the environment that surrounds them affects people.

II. Five themes of geography

? Locations: To talk about a place on a map located. Absolute location is being able to do that. Geographers invented longitude and latitude to make it possible. Relative location is the relationship between two places.

? Place: is the element of geography that explains the uniqueness of a location.

? Relationships within places: Geographers look at people?s lives and the way they interact with their environment and the results of interaction.

? Movement: This involves the interaction between people. Including trading goods and traveling to different centuries.

? Regions: Are areas that are named according to the characteristics of that in place. Characteristics such as language and government.

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