CHAPTER 6 CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

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CHAPTER 6CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

• Cultural geography is a sub-field within human
  geography. Cultural geography is the study of
  cultural products and norms and their variations
  across and relations to spaces and places. It
  focuses on describing and analyzing the ways
  language, religion, economy, government and other
  cultural phenomena vary or remain constant, from
  one place to another and on explaining how humans
  function spatially

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CHAPTER 6CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

• Cultural geography is a sub-field within human
  geography. Cultural geography is the study of
  cultural products and norms and their variations
  across and relations to spaces and places. It
  focuses on describing and analyzing the ways
  language, religion, economy, government and other
  cultural phenomena vary or remain constant, from
  one place to another and on explaining how humans
  function spatially

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P0PULATION DENSITY DISTRIBUTION
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States
generally considered to stretch across the South
and Southwest. The Sun Belt has seen substantial
population growth in recent decades, partly
fueled by a surge in retiring baby boomers who
migrate domestically, as well as the influx of
immigrants, both legal and illegal. Also, over
the past several decades, air conditioning has
made it easier for people to deal with the
oppressive heat that grips the region during the
summertime.
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                                           The
Sun Belt, highlighted in red
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The Cities

• Urbanization The concentration of population in
  the cities
• Metropolitan 50k () people in an area
• Suburbs those who live just outside the
  metropolitan area.
• WHAT NUMBER OF AMERICANS LIVE IN METROPOLITAN
  AREAS?

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Coastal Cities

• Megalopolis
• Houston
• Los Angeles
• New Orleans
• Miami

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• Urbanization- is the physical growth of urban
  areas from rural areas as a result of population
  immigration to an existing urban area. Effects
  include change in density and administration
  services. Urbanization is attributed to growth of
  cities. Urbanization is also defined by the
  United Nations as movement of people from rural
  to urban areas with population growth equating to
  urban migration. The UN has projected that half
  of the world's population would live in urban
  areas at the end of 2008.

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Critical Thinking

• How are the population patterns of Canada and the
  U.S. different and the same?

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What are some of the advantages and
disadvantages of living in a megalopolis?

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

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INLAND CITIES

• These cities are located within the boundary of
  that country.
• ex. Dallas, Detroit and Atlanta.

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HISTORY GOVERNMENT6.2

• US and Canada share much in geography.
• Taken different historical and cultural paths.
• Native Americans, colonist eventually developed
  into these two independent countries.
• Discuss the key role of physical geography in the
  emergence of the US and Canada.

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History

• 10,000 years ago nomads migrated across the
  Bering Strait land bridge from Asia to North
  America to populate
• At the same time Central And South America was
  being populated as well.

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Bering Strait Land Bridge
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Native AmericanChiefs
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Native Americans

• Native Americans used irrigation to farm dry land
  in the deserts of the S.W.
• Great Plains they hunted buffalo.
• Wood land of the east Mississippi river traded
  sea shells and freshwater pearls.
• North east they hunted deer, turkey, geese and
  squirrels.
• North east usually were tight knit communities
  with developed systems of government and had
  trade mastered to an art.

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European enslavement

• When Europeans arrived as colonists in North
  America, Native Americans changed their practice
  of slavery dramatically. They found that British
  settlers, especially those in the southern
  colonies, purchased or captured Native Americans
  to use as forced labor in cultivating tobacco,
  rice, and indigo. Native Americans began selling
  war captives to whites rather than integrating
  them into their own societies. As the demand for
  labor in the West Indies grew with the
  cultivation of sugar cane, Europeans enslaved
  Native Americans for export to the "sugar
  islands." Accurate records of the numbers
  enslaved do not exist. Scholars estimate tens of
  thousands of Native Americans may have been
  enslaved by the Europeans.
• The slave trade of Native Americans lasted only
  until around 1730, and it gave rise to a series
  of devastating wars among the tribes. The Indian
  wars of the early 18th century, combined with the
  increasing importation of African slaves,
  effectively ended the Native American slave trade
  by 1750. Colonists found it too easy for Native
  American slaves to escape, and the wars took the
  lives of numerous colonial slave traders. The
  remaining Native American groups banned together
  to face the Europeans from a position of
  strength. Many surviving Native American peoples
  of the southeast joined confederacies such as the
  Choctaw, the Creek, and the Catawba for
  protection.
• Native American women were at risk for rape
  whether they were enslaved or not, as in many
  southern communities, there were a
  disproportionate number of men in the early
  colonial years. Both Native American and African
  enslaved women suffered rape and sexual
  harassment by slaveholders.

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Critical Thinking

• How did the physical geography influence the
  cultures of the regions first settlers?
• What was life like for the earliest nomadic
  settlers?