Religions

Chapter One: • Human geographers study people and places. The field of human geography focuses on how people make places and how we organize space & society. How we make sense of others and ourselves in our locality, religion & world. • Advances in communication & transportation… technologies are making places and people more interconnected. Today we can cross the globe in record time, with easy access to automobiles, airplanes, and ships. • Globalization is a set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, & heightening independence without regard to country borders. • In medical geography, mapping the distribution of a disease is the first step to finding its cause. Cholera is a term used to denote a set of diseases in which diarrhea and dehydration are the chief symptoms. Its an ancient disease and it was confined to India until the beg. Of the 19th century. In 1816 it spread to China, Japan, East Africa etc. in the first several pandemics (A worldwide outbreak of an disease) Epidemic (A regional outbreak of an disease) • Human Geographers use a spatial perspective as they study a multitude of phenomena ranging from political elections and urban shantytowns to gay neighborhoods and folk music. • There is 5 Themes of Geography…. The National Geographic Society published their findings in 1986. • The 1st theme, Location highlights how the geographical position of people and things on earth’s surface affects what happens and why. • A location theory is an element of contemporary human geography that seeks answers to a wide range of questions. The 2nd theme is Human-environment interactions; which is basically a spatial perspective that invites consideration of the relationship among phenomena in individual places including the relationship between humans and the physical world. The 3rd theme is region. An area on the earth’s surface marked by a degree of formal, functional or perceptual