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Note: change to separate category and entry for [[Geography]] or leave here as a skill and add new entry /category for [[Human Geography]] | Note: change to separate category and entry for [[Geography]] or leave here as a skill and add new entry /category for [[Human Geography]] | ||
=== | ===Movement=== | ||
* | * geography shapes human interactions | ||
** when people mix, exchange, interact, we call it "'''cultural diffusion"''' | |||
** = the spread of ideas, languages, religions, values, cultral practices, technologies, disease, etc. through '''trade, migration and warfare''' | |||
** see full section on Cultural Diffusion below | |||
* '''geographic barriers to movement:''' | |||
** inhibitors = less movement = less cultural diffusion | |||
* types of barriers or inhibitors to movement: | |||
** mountains, deserts, oceans & seas, crossing rivers, jungles, deserts, canyons, waterfalls (cataracts) | |||
** long distances | |||
** climate: extreme climates and differences in climate across regions = barrier to cultural diffusion | |||
* '''geographic catalysts for movement:''' | |||
* facilitators = more movement = more cultural diffusion | |||
* facilitators = aids to movement | |||
* | * types of facilitators to movement: | ||
** valleys, going along rivers or coastlines, flat lands, | |||
* | |||
** | |||
** similar climate = aid to movement | ** similar climate = aid to movement | ||
** both: | ** short distances | ||
** | * geographic features that can act as both barriers to and facilitators of movement : | ||
** rivers = "both a highway and a moat" | |||
** a coastline as both inhibitor and facilitator of movement | |||
** woods, lakes, and rivers as | |||
*** barriers during warm weather | |||
*** and facilitators in cold weather (ice, lack of underbrush during winter, etc.) | |||
* examples | * examples | ||
** Wallace line see [ | ** Wallace line see [[wikipedia:Wallacea|Wallacea]] | ||
=== '''Isolation''' === | |||
* a state of geographic separation from other people and places | |||
* isolation is caused by geographic barriers | |||
* note that isolated areas may have isolated regions within themselves | |||
* isolation creates regions | |||
===Regions=== | ===Regions=== | ||
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==== Utopia paradox ==== | ==== Utopia paradox ==== | ||
* the idea that what happened in the past could or should have been different | * the idea that what happened in the past could or should have been different | ||
* the fallacy occurs from transposing | * the fallacy occurs from transposing (switching upon) present-day outlook upon the past | ||
** i.e. measuring or defining the past historical values, conditions and choices with present-day values, conditions and choices | |||
** would these historical actors be satisfied with conditions of today? | ** would these historical actors be satisfied with conditions of today? | ||
** if so, what would they have done differently | ** if so, what would they have done differently | ||