1. Geo = Earth + Graphy = Drawing/Recording
Geography
Geo = Earth +
Graphy = Drawing/Recording

2. Mercator Projection

3. What’s wrong with Mercator?
The North is 18.9 million square miles.
The South is 38.6 million square miles.

4. What’s wrong with Mercator?
Greenland: 0.8 million sq. miles
Africa: 11.6 million sq. miles

5. What’s wrong with Mercator?
Greenland is 0.8 million square miles.
China is 3.7 million square miles.

6. What’s wrong with Mercator?
The former Soviet Union is 8.7 million square miles.
Africa is 11.6 million square miles.

7. What’s wrong with Mercator?
Europe is 3.8 million square miles.
South America is 6.9 million square miles.

8. Robinson Projection

9. Peters Projection

10. Homolosine Projection

11. Dymaxion Projection

12. Dymaxion Projection

13. What other choices affect how we view the world?

14. Centering: Americas

15. Centering: Europe/Africa (aka Prime Meridian)

16. Centering: Asia/Pacific

17. Continents…
Wait, what???

18. Antarctica (not pictured)
Four Continent System
Americas
Afro-Eurasia
Australia
Antarctica (not pictured)

19. Antarctica (not pictured)
Five Continent System
Americas
Eurasia
Africa
Australia
Antarctica (not pictured)

20. Antarctica (not pictured)
Six Continent System
North America
Eurasia
Africa
South America
Australia
Antarctica (not pictured)

21. Map of the world divided into 7 regions equal in population

23. OK Mr. Dwyer, what do I REALLY need to know???

24. Official World Continents

25. Official World Regions

26. Water Regions Too…

30. Other important Geographic Features

31. Barriers

32. Highways

33. (to “civilized”people)
But Most Important…
(to “civilized”people)

35. Now Let’s Put This Knowledge to Work
Take out something to write with and a piece of paper
No, this is not for
points!

36. Name a modern country in:
North Africa
South Asia
The Mediterranean Basin
The Tigris/Euphrates Basin
Central Asia
Latin America
The Indus River basin
The Middle East

37. Give geographic labels (continent/region/basin) to these countries
China
India
Egypt
Mexico
Italy
Canada
Thailand
Australia

38. Name a modern country in:
North Africa – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt (Egypt counts as many things!)
South Asia – Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh
The Mediterranean Basin – Spain, France, Italy, MaltaCroatia, Bosnia, Montengro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco
The Tigris/Euphrates Basin – Iraq, Kuwait, Syria
Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia
Latin America – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Niaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
The Indus River basin – Pakistan, India
The Middle East – Egypt (AGAIN!), Isreal, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia

39. Give geographic labels to these countries
China – Asia, East Asia, Pacific, South China Sea, Huang He, Yangzi
India – Asia, South Asia, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Indus, Ganges
Egypt – Africa, North Africa/Middle East, Mediterranean, Red Sea, Nile
Mexico – North America, Latin America, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean
Italy – Europe, Southern Europe, Mediterranean
Canada – North America, Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic
Thailand – Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, South China Sea
Australia – Australia, Oceania, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean

40. Changes in History!

41. BC/AD or BCE/CE? BCE = BC CE = AD
Dating Systems
BC/AD or BCE/CE? BCE = BC CE = AD

42. Historiography

43. Which Afro-Eurasians discovered the New World first?

44. Types of History

45. “Great Man” History
Political History
Economic History

46. Cultural / Religious History Environmental History
Social History
Cultural / Religious History
Environmental History

47. What’s the right answer?

48. Interaction (with Environment) Cultural Economic
Why not use them all?
S P I C E
Social
Political
Interaction (with Environment)
Cultural
Economic