Now write a three-paragraph essay that responds to the essay prompt below. A good essay will have a strong topic sentence and introduction, a body paragraph that uses specific evidence to back up its statements, and a concluding paragraph that repeats your point. Use the facts from your brainstorming table to write your essay. Essay Prompt: Describe the relationship between physical geography and world cultures

The geography of a region and the human uses of that are interdependent in a number of obvious ways.  For instance, people living along a seacoast tend to fish, so they develop cultures involving the sea, boats, fishing techniques, a diet rich in seafoods, etc.  Of course this will also be combined with the resources of the land they live on.  In colder areas, such as Northern Europe, the raising of sheep for wool is common, and knitting became important.

In Ireland and in Norway, for example, people developed distinctive knitting patterns for the sweaters so that unrecognizable bodies of drowned sailors or fishermen could be recognized by the clothes.  In the South Pacific island cultures, less clothing was needed to start with, and clothes that were light kept the fishermen from overheating in the sun.  The plants that grew there were used as fibers for people who lived in mountainous geography developed entirely different cultures from sea-going peoples, often isolationist in character.  Clothes, customs, languages and tools all reflect the needs of a population to a very large degree dictated by the geography and climate of the region where they live.  

Architecture is effected, also.  The open Roman villas, developed in a warm and sunny climate, would have been unbearable in the forests of northern Europe, where wooden log houses developed, with greater insulating properties.  The movable yurts of the steppes cultures across northern and central Asia were a function of the geography, which demanded a nomadic lifestyle. The links below will take you to sites with more informationothing, rather than the hair or skins of animals.

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