today in class we learned how doing things locally can help globally. For example you can grow our own food and be helping the world because your not using any gas that pollutes the air, that is being used hen you drive to the grocery store. Also we learned that at the global scale, encompassing the entire world, geographers tend to see broad patterns. We learned that geography matters in the contemporary world because it can explain human action at all scales. Lastly I learned that in rural areas they tend to vote republican and democratic in urban areas.
today in class we started to talk about new things. we started to learn about political geography. in other words how the world is organized. the world is organized in countries which are an identifiable land area. they are also organized by nations which are a population with a common culture. the last way is by a state which means a population under a single government and can be synonymous with "country". a better definition of nation is, a group of people with a shared identity think of it as a culture group nations are groups of people, larger than a single tribe or community, which may share a common language, institutions, religion, and/or historical experience. and independent state might have characteristics such as has space of territory which has internationally recognized boundaries, has people w there on an on going basis, has economic activity and organized economy which regulates foreign and domestic trade and issues money, has the power of social engineering,
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