GEOG 1001 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: European Colonialism, Thatching, Nabisco
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__________________________________________________________________9/3/13: geo + graphy (earth + writing/understanding) Spatial variation -how things differ from place to place across the earth. Fictional movies: food, music, books and classical research, tourism and living there, how do we assess the quality of that information, need to be critical because every website is not always right. Who put them out there and why. Why do they want to show that of their own place or another place. Assess these images to learn their ways of thinking and their ways of doing things. Getting beyond that our way of doing things is the only way. 5 motivations that people have for looking at other cultures. Tourism, exploration, science (new species: religious, curiosity, economical/political. Seven cities of gold, paradise, can equally be motivated by fantasy. Places are a source of fantasy, tales of the lost city of atlantis: improvement/helping. Secular missionary work, peace corps, doctors: fantasy. Change and move all the time because geography is always changing.
