GEOG 3210 Lecture : September 18.docx
Document Summary
It represented an early attempt to develop geographic theory. Between 1920 and 1940 it was subject to moutning criticism. By the end of wwii, enviromnetal determinism had fallen out of favor. Overly racist: provided a scientific rationalization for european colonial expansion, core ideas were embraced by the nazis. Jared diamon, the author of guns, germs and steel is sometimes labeled a. Here again, the first attempts at classifying regions according to their agricultural capacity can be traced to the greeks. Earth was divided into three climatic zones based on their distance from the equator.
