Question

identify and explain in detail three relationships between the geography of an area or region and the development of culture.

Answer 1

Geography of an area has always carved the culture of a region.The examples that explains this relationship are:

• The occupation of people and geography: The people who live along the coast lines in the world have fishing as their main occupation and also a life style that and culture that resembles the dominance of their occupation.The people living in plain fertile valleys with favorable climate has taken agriculture as their main occupation and also their life style and culture had shaped accordingly. The festivals,food,beliefs etc all depicts the prominence of agriculture. Pastoral occupation and lifestyle is seen in grasslands of the world.
• Way of clothing and geography: Through out various cultures of the world there is a vast difference in the way that people cloth themselves,this is because of the climatic differences. The people living in the warm and humid equatorial region have a dressing style that has lesser and more looser clothes. The people of living in the hotter regions of middle east hotter region of Asia has a clothing style that intents to protect them from severe heat and hence,they wear clothes that covers their full body , and are very loose.The people living in colder regions wear thick woollen or of animal hides inorder to protect themselves from the severity of the cold.
• Architecture and geography: The housing or architecture of a particular region depends upon the climate and availability of raw materials for housing.For example ,the architecture of European countries is influenced by the climate of the region,they are more insulating in nature , Similarly the architecture of hotter is suited to keep the buildings cool and preventing from dust storms.