HI 440 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - City, New World, Smallpox
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Material refers to actual physical changes in the land. Cognitive refers to how individuals think of nature and their relationship to the rest of the world and how those ideas led to the environmental change. All human experience takes place and space. History is about context, and the greatest is the world we live in. The natural world is ignored at our peril. It helps us face the task of living in nature while thinking ourselves outside of it . As the natural world splits apart, the distance between those spaces become barriers to human movement and, at the same time, enable human movement to travel across sea. The first great story of environmental story is through migration and trade that reconnects the world to each other. Human populations took advantage of the new landscapes and developed new economies that made sense in the places they lived.
