How Does Geography Impact The World?

The geographical advantages of Eurasia allowed civilizations to develop productive agriculture, and domesticated animals as a result the Europeans had food surplus, developed immunity to epidemic diseases, and forged steel. These inherited advantages allowed them to decimate other civilizations and appropriate their resources making them even more powerful.

Jared Diamond, an esteemed historian takes readers on a journey through time. He explains that through many different factors and resources, Europe was able to conquer nearly every civilization due to three major factors, guns, germs, and steel. Diamond constructs the majority of his arguments based upon the political, economical, and natural differences and variances between each continent.

Why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? According to UCLA biologist Jared Diamond, some countries grew faster than others because of geographic luck. It sounds like a simple theory, but there is a lot more to it. The lucky countries, like Spain, were lucky enough to have natural resources, indigenous plants, and animals that could be domesticated. With all of this at their fingertips, they were able to stop hunting and gathering and start farming. Farming didn’t require as much people as hunting and gathering; so people who were not out farming started developing new technologies. These people, also known as specialists, created the path for guns and steel to be created. These two weapons

Immediately after reading the prologue of guns, germs, and steel I was able to comprehend the intended message that the author created. As the book went from chapter to chapter it was understandable that the author strongly believed that one society can excel farther than another based on that society's geography. The author used charts and diagrams to introduce different beliefs and concepts to explain his hypothesis. Some major themes from the beginning to the end of the book that contributed to the author’s belief was that geography worked as a disadvantage for some societies causing unuseful agriculture, failed societies caused by geography led to the unsuccessful development of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and communities with lots

Where people lived decided whether or not they would prosper. Even the most resourceful people will only get so far if they do not have any resources to work with. The Europeans thrived and flourished in their climate and geographic location, and there was nothing others could do to make up for the limitations nature imposed on its population. Pure environmental luck was the determining factor of a regions

Throughout history, civilizations began farming on land, and before that basic survival skills. But at some point, several areas became advanced technologically while others did not. Those civilizations became advanced because their geographical locations, helped through climate, as climate decides whether civilization can grow or not. Geography also controls the types of animals that are available to domesticate, as well as a the types of crops that are available to sustain growth and continuance.

Geography influences culture in many ways. A civilizations geography determines what kind of god(s) they believe in as well as influences from other cultures. These features provide a stepping stone for cultures that are solely based on geography.

Humans are affected by all the characteristics and consequences of the various ideas and objects within physical geography in a multitude of ways. Things as historically important as mankind's journey outside of South Eastern Africa to things as seemingly simple as the location of interstates and highways are massively affected by geography. Nearly every bit of infrastructure and structures in today's world is influenced by geography in some way, whether it's the pigment of our sin, the way we built our travel routes, the location of our cities, or our buildings themselves. Let's start off with the scientific part of things. How has geography affected humans themselves?

In the end, Guns, Germs, and Steel, allowed the Europeans to conquer new places. Geographic luck allowed them to have raw materials to create new things. Conquering new lands let them have access to new materials and tons of more materials. Their diseases followed them and could destroy villages of people who had never experienced these diseases

The Europeans had a semi-arid climate which let them be able to grow wheat. They also had 13 of the 14 domesticable animals which gave increase productivity in many aspects of their daily lives. The Europeans had built up an immunity to smallpox over time do to the animals. Steel takes 3 variables to make and purely because of geography europeans had all of those variables. Those 4 topics are the main roots of inequality, every inequality in the world today leads back to those topic.

As humanity approaches further in twenty-first century, the quiddity of boundaries, borders and territory, and the geopolitical practices organized around them, in a world of turbulent financial flows and transnational dangers, is very much in question. What is the status of the state border in a world where states appear to be overwhelmed by transnational flows of capital, information and commodities? What does geopolitics mean in a world where there is no dominant territorial antagonism, where many states are failing as a consequence of ethnic wars and institutional collapse?

First of all, we have terrains. The influence of terrains on rural tribes is very apparent. Rivers in plain area is less, and the terrain is complete, open and flat. So the shape of the village assumes the circular or irregular polygon and more concentrated. However, in river less area, villages along the river or valley stretching and villages scattered and quite small.

In the scenic region of Hawaii, where the beautiful sunsets and nice weather are, lies our futuristic city. The climate in our city is favorable because it’s always warm and sunny. What makes the geography enjoyable in our city is that is that it abides on an Island where Mauna Kea and oceanic surroundings are. Some innovations in our city include, wind turbines, which provide electricity, and rainwater collectors that filter out the rainwater and provide fresh water. Overall, our city’s climate and geographical location are desirable, have moderate temperatures, and lots of sunshine.

Before examining Spain and her position within Europe’s ‘imagined geography’, it is first crucial to have a full understanding of what is meant by the term. ‘Imaginative Geography’, popularized by Edward W Said in his work Orientalism (1977), refers to the perceptions of a country created by others, as depicted through text and images. This may be from an inside or outside perspective, both of which will be discussed in this essay. Other areas to be explored include the change in attitudes towards Spain over the two centuries, the role of travel writers in portraying this image of Spain and the importance of the historical background and political system in governing the country and thus dictating its position within Europe’s ‘imagined geography’.

Many studies have demonstrated the idea that institutions are the main factor of economic development because empirical evidence points to strong institutions being able to determine large growth of GDP per capita. Although the characteristics of strong institutions can be described as the potential fundamental cause of economic growth, the effects of geography and materials available to different certain regions have a huge hand in properly developing a society economically and allowing for further growth. The resources of the countries heavily depend on the raw materials available to each region and the kinds of animals they are able to domesticate. This is where the argument circulates around in which geography is a large determinant of whether a civilization or society can prosper in a certain area or not.