Practice question · Multiple choice
Why is "geography is contingent on technology" a serious constraint on the field?
Hints
- What happened to "bulk goods do not travel far" after 1956?
- A river is an obstacle or a highway depending on what?
Show the answer
B. Containerization erased apparent laws within a generation
Why
A river is an obstacle or a highway depending on whether you have boats. Geography did not change in 1956; the price list did, and every law that evaporated was a statement about cost wearing a costume.
Practise Geography and History
The app has 4 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. History I is free to start.
More questions on Geography and History
- A geographical explanation and a determinist one can cite exactly the same evidence. What separates them?
- Why should Diamond’s continental-axis argument be held more loosely than the strength of its mechanism…
- Ratzel’s Lebensraum feeding into Geopolitik is guilt by association.
- Complete the formulation.
- Sort each claim: determinism or the defensible position?
- Why does possibilism, pushed hard enough, stop being informative?
- What characterizes the defensible modern position?