All geographers research about the world or an specific area. They use many types of maps and pictures to serve for their purposes. The maps help them explain and understand accurately about the physical features‚ culture and economies of an area. The physical feature maps show about the features and terrains of an area such as rivers‚ mountains‚ hills‚ deserts and many different elevations. Each physical feature has a symbol to identify it. They also include climate‚ which is the conditions of
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Colonies in the North and South were adversely affected by differences in climate and geography which shaped the political‚ economic‚ religious‚ and social developments in these regions and the future nation they would become. Tobacco cultivation was a large factor of society in the south around which many aspects of civilization developed. It was the primary crop grown in the south because of its ability to grow in the Chesapeake soil. The intense physical labor required of southern famers led
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A.P. U.S. DBQ: Question: Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin‚ by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur? By the 1700s the two regions‚ New England and Chesapeake varied greatly in spite of being from the same mother country‚ England. Physical and cultural differences separated these two regions distinctively. While religion moulded the daily life in New England‚ Money
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Mr. Trzepinska AP US History 17 September 2012 DBQ on the Colonies Although both the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled primarily by people of English origin‚ they eventually developed into two distinctly different societies. This occurred because of the stark difference in the environment of the two regions‚ the economies of the two regions‚ and the mentalities of the people in the two regions. The Chesapeake and New England regions had many flagrant differences that led to
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Geography is the study of how the world affects people and how people affect the world. The discipline is split up into two main areas; Human Geography and Physical Geography. Human Geography is the geography of people; it looks at the world in a social and economic sense. Physical Geography looks mostly at the environment and its physical processes. You can take Geography as one whole subject or choose to specialise in either Human or Physical Geography. It is also possible to do a joint or combined
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English colonies had different purposes and things to contribute. There were thirteen original colonies‚ each playing a different role from the other. Some colonies had purposes that were more different than others and over time these roles changed and varied. The first colony to be founded in 1607‚ Virginia‚ was called a “child of tobacco”. Originally the London Company founded this colony to find gold‚ but Virginia’s prosperity was built on tobacco. Tobacco played a vital role in the colony of Virginia’s
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“Jamestown Colony” On May 14‚ 1607‚ a group of colonists from England arrived in the New World and formed a settlement in the Colony of Virginia. In the winter of 1609-1610‚ all but 60 of the 900 colonists died due to their mistakes. The settlers came to the New World unprepared‚ expecting to be able to trade with the Natives for food and supplies‚ but eventually were not able to. Overall‚ the settlement failed due to its dependency on outside resources and lack of skills needed to make a settlement
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NAME: TRAN CONG THANH CLASS: GMA02 1a.How do clusters allow us to understand business development? Think of cluster‚ we think about interconnected businesses working together in a region in a particular field. So being a part of cluster allows individuals or companies to operate more productivity and efficiency. Cluster is a typical place where receive so many support and investment from government and institutions about infrastructure in order to enhance companies ‘s productivity as well as
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------------------------------------------------- Geography of Pakistan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Geography of Pakistan | | Continent | Asia | Region | Southwest Asia | Coordinates | 30°00 ’N 70°00 ’E | Area | Ranked 36th 880‚940 km2 (340‚130 sq mi) 97.13% land 2.87 % water | Borders | Total: 6‚975 km (4‚334.1 mi) Afghanistan: 2‚643 km (1‚642.3 mi) China: 510 km (316.9 mi) India: 2‚910 km (1‚808.2 mi) Iran: 912 km (566.7 mi) | Highest point | K2 8‚616.3 m
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THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Department of Geography ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AN URBANIZING WORLD (GEOG 1012) First Semester 2013-2014 Essay 1: Compare and contrast the main characteristics of the urbanization process in the First and Third Worlds Urbanization refers to the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities. It can be movement from rural to an urban or simply involves a growth in the number
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