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Name____________________________ Per___ Date_______________________________________ Geography: It’s Part of the Name of this class!!!!!! One of the possible choices you will have for your final examination SAQ is that of geography. It has and will remain a vital characteristic of human history and ( as Jared Diamond says) our ability or inability to handle our geography can make or break us. In short, geography is the study of the Earth (and all of its natural functions). We have looked at the 5 themes originally in September when Mr. Help reminded us of movement, regions, human environmental interactions, location and place. The themes of regions and human/environmental interactions are the focus of the essay. You must first identify a region (it can be physical, environmental, economic, cultural) and evaluate how humans have been impacted or have adapted to the region (manipulated, altered, impacted) and assess whether positive or negative. Today we will start with regions. Please identify what the following have in common: 1. Italy, Iberia, Yucatan ___________________________ 2. Andes, Himalaya, Zagros ________________________ 3. Mediterranean, Black, Baltic ______________________ 4. Sahara, Gobi, Atacama ________________________ 5. Silk route, trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean _____________________ 6. Nile, Indus, Yellow ___________________________ 7. Moscow, Kiev, Rus ___________________________ 8. Altiplano, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon River __________________ 9. Archipelago, mountainous, Sea of Japan _____________________ 10. Gobi, Pacific, Himalaya ____________________________ Now how do humans adapt to their environment or are impacted by it positively or negatively? Name the society and evaluate positive or negative: 1. Irrigation along Tigris/Euphrates, developing cuneiform from mud-baked clay, building ziggurats form quarried stone _______________________________________ 2. Development of terrace farming, building 12,000 miles of roads, engineering suspension bridges _____________________________________ 3. Developing the Dhow to carry cargo, identifying the seasonal pattern of Monsoon winds, utilizing lateen sail to catch these winds in the Winter and summer _________________________________________________________ 4. Developing the Shinto faith to explain Kami, developing a fishing industry to utilize natural ports, establishing a feudal system based on scarcity of arable land ____________________________________________________________________ 5. Failure to prepare for floods, slash and burn farming, civil war over scarce resources _________________________________________ 6. Predictability of river floods, considered a religious gift. Limestone quarried and transported to build pyramids ____________________________________________ 7. Controlled safe passage for caravansaries, built Timbuktu at the edge of Desert, grew wealthy off of vast reserves of gold and salt _________________________

8. Strategic location for Eurasian trade, built forts around golden horn to prevent against attack, Western terminus of the Silk Road _________________________________ 9. Limited contact because of North-South migration, adverse geography of swamps and lowlands, geographically isolated from South America ______________________ 10. Building of Warm water ports, establishment of Eastern border, building great navy to push empire into the Black Sea port of Crimea ____________________________ 11. Considered China’s sorrow, Isolated by Deserts and mountains, bronze metallurgy developed later _______________________________________________ 12. Blended Bantu and Arabic cultures, traded interior African Goods for Indian Ocean goods, developed as a major Islamic center in East Africa _____________________________ 13. Re-opened silk route, utilized superior cavalry to create vast empire, facilitated revelers like Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo _______________________________________ 14. Prime location along Mediterranean, profited off of trade to East VIA Crusades, had oligopoly on spice trade through Mediterranean__________________________ 15. Mountainous topography led to political decentralization, created poleis, naval colonization utilized for resources ____________________________________ 16. Prime location along silk route and Indian Ocean, built wells, roads and hospitals, spread Buddhism _______________________________________________ 17. Lack of immunity led to demographic shift, European migration, African Diaspora ______________________________________________________. 18. Location along Black Sea led to transmission of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Built Onion Dome Cathedrals, developed Cyrillic Alphabet ______________________________________ 19. Built Chinampas, Causeways and irrigation canals to establish Tenochtitlan ___________________________________________ 20. Built roads, Aqueducts and coliseums through empire in Europe, Africa and Asia _____________________________________________________

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