Social Studies Test Help! Please!?

Question

I know I should have this in my notes, but I just cant find it. Does anyone know how geography helps us understand history?!?!
Thanks a TON!

Answer 1

History and geography are related.

Geography helps us understand different civilizations. Mountains hinders people from communicating and trading with each other. Mountains also at times can block rainfall from the ocean thus causing poor farming conditions and even desserts. Mountains also prevented one people from conquering other peoples.

Water aids in communication when there is good ports. The people can trade with each other, get to know each other and borrow ideas from each other. Water from rivers and streams provide irrigation. The yearly flooding of the Nile River irrigated the land, was used for Egyptian religion and helped the development of mathematics since they had to reestablish boundaries.

Answer 2

It helps to know where the countries are located in relation to one another and in relation to where you are. Such as the war in Iraq. It is in the Middle East. We are in the US on the other side of the world but we have people there fighting. And the brouhaha in the Balkans a few years ago. Where are the Balkans? in Europe (Like Serbia & Herzegovina). How does this affect me? Maybe you have relatives there. What happened when the Soviet Union divided itself up into several new countries. Where are they located?

Answer 3

That's a good question and requires much thought.

The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA in 1888 and began publication of the National Geographic magazine which became and continues to be a great popularizer of geographic information. The society has long supported geographic research and education.

In the West during the second half of the 19th and the 20th century, the discipline of geography went through four major phases: environmental determinism, regional geography, the quantitative revolution, and critical geography.

Environmental determinism is the theory that a people's physical, mental and moral habits are directly due to the influence of their natural environment.

Regional geography represented a reaffirmation that the proper topic of geography was study of places (regions). Regional geographers focused on the collection of descriptive information about places, as well as the proper methods for dividing the earth up into regions.

The quantitative revolution was geography's attempt to redefine itself as a science, in the wake of the revival of interest in science following the launch of Sputnik. Quantitative revolutionaries, often referred to as "space cadets", declared that the purpose of geography was to test general laws about the spatial arrangement of phenomena. They adopted the philosophy of positivism from the natural sciences and turned to mathematics—especially statistics—as a way of proving hypotheses. The quantitative revolution laid the groundwork for the development of geographic information systems.
The quantitative revolution was geography's attempt to redefine itself as a science, in the wake of the revival of interest in science following the launch of Sputnik. Quantitative revolutionaries, often referred to as "space cadets", declared that the purpose of geography was to test general laws about the spatial arrangement of phenomena. They adopted the philosophy of positivism from the natural sciences and turned to mathematics—especially statistics—as a way of proving hypotheses. The quantitative revolution laid the groundwork for the development of geographic information systems.

Answer 4

The borders of counties sometimes change after a war. Counties slit up and form new republics.

Answer 5

Geographic placement of a country helps with its security, as well as helps the economy with production of food...