![]() ![]() Ideas like this were still fashionable into the twentieth century. Remember that Environmental determinism is the idea that a particular landscape necessarily produces a certain kind of people. These ideas would now be considered environmentally deterministic. ![]() The ideal place (which coincidentally was his own place) was in the middle of the known world and produced the best kind of people. He believed that cold places produced emotionally distant people, and hot climates produced lazy, lethargic people. In the book On Airs, Waters, and Places, the Greek philosopher Hippocrates wrote that different climates produced different kinds of people. Humans have been thinking about the relationship between people and their environments for a considerable amount of recorded history. Cultural ecology refers to the types of landscapes created by the interaction of people and their physical environment. This relationship is reciprocal culture adapts to a particular place, and that place is changed by people. The relationship between people, their culture, and the physical landscape is known as human-environment interaction. In order to live in places a different as these, humans have needed to adapt their lifestyles. These are landscapes that have been formed over thousands, if not millions of years by forces of nature. The physical landscape consists of places like the Appalachian Mountains that stretch across a large portion of North America, the Mongolian-Manchurian grasslands, the Amazon river basin, or any other environment. Either way, cultures influence landscapes and in turn landscapes influence cultures.įigure 4.5 | Culture-Landscape Relationship For urban cultures, those resources can either be local, or they can be products brought from great distances. In the case of rural cultures, those resources tend to be local. My piece of advice, however, is that people using this book for a AP Human Geography class should use other sources if they want a 5 on the exam.Cultures’ beings rely on natural resources to survive. I would recommend this book to any person, even if they are not planning to pursue a geographical science career, because there are some concepts that you will most likely need to know for use in normal life. Hopefully, I should get a 4 or 5 on the exam. Regarding how ready this book has made me for this AP exam, I feel it has done two - thirds of the job, and the remaining third is up to me to get ready. It felt like sentences were stated in three different ways. These parts were mainly in the second half of the book, economic geography. However, some parts of this book made me want to stop reading it. Another part of what makes the book interesting is that you may actually use the material presented in the book later on in life, even if you don’t go into a career involving the geographical sciences. It has many interesting facts and images. Most textbooks are dull but this textbook is not like that. It is also very interesting for a textbook. I found it to be very thorough and easy to understand. I myself read this book for my AP (Advanced Placement) Human Geography class. It shows how politics, human activities, and geography are related. ![]() The first half of this book focuses on elements of cultural geography and the second half focuses on elements of economic geography. “The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography” is an introductory text that contains material used in human geography classes.
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