Importance of Geography
Miscellanea / / August 08, 2023
Although in our daily work we pay little attention to it, many of the activities we carry out, and some unexpected events that happen, are directly linked to the geography, one of the most relevant sciences from its creation to the present day, and which has not rested from working towards continuing to offer us knowledge about places, relationships between people and its environment, among others.
A close science with influence on human beings and the planet
Human beings leave marks on the territory in which we inhabit and also the different places that make up the earth produce an impact on the people who live in them, and there is geography, making use of other auxiliary branches, such as economy, policy, ecology, sociology, among others, to study the phenomena that occur and govern the planet and how the territories change over time.
Constantly incorporating novelties, geography evolved remarkably over time, basically due to the physical changes that occurred and occur in the planet and for the technological advances that every day offer better resources to explore the earth and that there are no loose ends as to why yes or no in such freak.
Thanks to geography, people can know what the climate is, the relief of the place where we live and of others that we have not yet known, or a government to know characteristics specific areas of their territory to develop effective policies in various areas, especially in the countryside economic: elucidate, for example, what are the best activities that can be carried out in an area specific.
An important field of analysis that always adds many followers is linked to the geological formations, being important the theories of the great periods of orogenesis and folding that gave rise to the formations of the great mountain ranges and cordilleranos that today we can enjoy as attractions natural landscapes.
Our ancestors victims of geographical ignorance
Undoubtedly, one of the main obstacles our ancestors faced was not knowing the territory in the one they lived in and the closest one, because this situation prevented them from expanding economically, or developing a victorious strategy at the behest of a war.
On the other hand, for centuries, volcanoes and earthquakes were catastrophic phenomena for which there was no scientific explanation and therefore no possibility of anticipation.
Although today it cannot be prevented from happening, what has allowed the development of this science is its knowledge, because it is produce, and devise tools that facilitate their anticipation, that measure their magnitude, and that reduce their material and deadly.
The evolution of the world map, hand in hand with technology
Also, the map of the world evolved with the growth of this science and this is demonstrated by the enormous amount of maps that exist on our planet at different times until reaching the present.
An infinite number of questions and subjects have been represented on these maps, especially those that interested man at the time in which they were generated.
The supports, and the representation of the continents and their corresponding territories were changing as new lands were discovered that They revolutionized the world and the people who found out about the existence of peers behind an ocean where they didn't even think there was anything...
Currently, the technological revolution has created magnificent and extremely precise systems that, through aerial and satellite photographs, allow us to access a map of the a planet that does not allow misinterpretation or unknown areas, our entire fabulous and rich world can be seen from a small screen that we carry in our pockets, and that it is there for when we need it unless the battery runs out, and one is forced, being in the street, to ask another person for directions as was done in the "antiquity".
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