Geography & Man

Question 0

As people from Mesopotamia, Northern Africa, and China started to domesticAte plants and animals, where did they do this around?

Answer 0

Rivers

Mesopotamia - Tigris, Euphrates

Northern Africa / Egypt - Nile

China - Yellow

Question 1

What are some environmental factors thAt can influence human migration?

Answer 1

1. Agricultural revolution / sources of water
2. Climate
3. Dust Bowl / Hurricane Katrina

Question 2

With the beginnings of development and civilization around the rivers (Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Yellow), what did they develop?

Answer 2

Irrigation for farming

Ways to use water to develop

Question 3

What was a factor in people moving towards the Nile in Northern Africa 5000 years ago?

Answer 3

Severely drier climate

Question 4

What places experienced the “Dust Bowl” and what occurred?

Answer 4

Arkansas / Kansas

Climatic Change / not a lot of water

Ppl moved to California for work and farming

Question 5

Give an example of a natural disaster being a factor in migration

Answer 5

Hurricane Katrina caused a lot of people to move

Question 6

How is employment a socio-economic factor?

Answer 6

People moves to wherever the jobs are

If there is a certain industry ppl will go there to have a job

Question 7

What are some factors that influence human migration in socio-economic terms?

Answer 7

Employment - Silicon Valley

• Industrial Age - Urban Centers / factories

Question 8

In the Industrial Age, what does mechanization mean?

Answer 8

Things can be produced in mass by machines

Question 9

What are political factors that can influence human migration?

Answer 9

War

Persecution

** Jews during WWII
Cherokee / Trail of Tears

Question 10

What is the diaspora?

Answer 10

The moving of Jews to all different parts of the world during WWII

Question 11

How does culture develop?

Answer 11

In relation to physical environment

Question 12

What are the two main types of cultural development in relation to geography & man?

Answer 12

Agricultural - settled societies

Nomadic societies

** choice comes to do availability of resources **

Nomadic - food grows naturally / a lot of animals to eat

Agricultural - find rivers to irrigate and grow crops

Question 13

What did the agricultural societies rely on for development?

Answer 13

1. Water control techniques - irrigate and control water to farm
2. Urban/rural dichotomy
3. More complex political system (government has greater responsibilities to manage resources)

Question 14

Explain urban/rural dichotomy in agricultural societies

Answer 14

Core - urban
Takes advantage of rural region and controls production

Peripheral - rural
Produces and is controlled by rural/core region

Question 15

In agricultural regions and societies why is specialization needed?

Answer 15

There are many different kinds of jobs and roles for each person to fill because there is a lot of resources and things to manage

Need a political government to watch over the valuable resource/protect it

Question 16

What were nomadic societies about relating to humans & geography?

Answer 16

1. Animal husbandry / hunter-gatherer

2. Egalitarian society - every1 seen more as an equal

Question 17

Native Americans in California would use acorns to make?

Answer 17

Grind them up in powder to make bread

Question 18

Within Native Americans you saw what type of society?

Egypt?

Answer 18

Native Americans - Along the Sierras in California resided egalitarian (hunter/gatherers) societies

Egypt saw structured/political/political societies with hierarchy and

upper classes
middle classes
Working classes