EDEE 280 Midterm: geo exam prep.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Elementary Education
• Course: EDEE 280
• Professor: Paul Zanazanian

Document Summary

Bringing the class together to make decisions for what is best for the group will do this: voting and elections, what does it mean to partake in this, students need to fully understand a democracy. Geographers divide the world into regions by characteristics (such as language) so by physical or human characteristics: human-environment interactions, how do people interact with and change the environment to make it good for settlement? (cid:222) (cid:222) (cid:222) Physical characteristics like landforms and bodies of water. Compare the lifestyles of the algonquians and the iroquois. In the winter, they travelled by foot with the use of snowshoes: the men traded food (corn) and tobacco traded with algonquian for birch bark, furs, canoes etc. Sails to india via the cape of good hope. Discovered ocean route from portugal to the east. Upon his return, he was treated well and awarded from the king. Sent back to india as a viceroy (king"s representative), but died while there.