GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Planned Economy, Anaximander
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It is a broad discipline: physical, human, human-environment: describes the earth"s surface and examines the processes that give rise to differences from place to place. It investigates the physical features of earth and it"s atmosphere, spatial organization and distribution of human activities and complex interrelationships between people and natural and human made environments. Organizing the world: anaximander (5th century bce) believed that world consisted of 3 continents or containers , these continents consisted of: asia, libya, and europe, there are actually 7 continents: asia, europe, australia, africa, north. America, south america, and antarctica: australia is one of the oldest land masses in the world, arctic not considered a continent because there is no land mass. Questioning the continents: well known, cultural as well as political, social and economic icons, continents are arbitrary (they appear objective, but are not, overlook differences within continents, static (don"t reflect how the world has changed) Rise of china: political and economic importance due to workshops.
