Practice question · Multiple choice
The same mountain range that isolated a region in 1500 barely slows a lorry today. What does that do to geographical explanation?
Hints
- Ask what a mountain costs to cross, and what that cost depends on.
- The mountain did not move. What changed?
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A. It makes geography's effects historically specific
Why
A barrier is a cost and the cost depends on the technology available, so geographical claims carry an implicit date. That is the discipline's honest formulation, the stage has opinions and they change, and it is what separates a usable geographical argument from a determinist one.
Practise Physical Geography and Geomorphology
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