What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then the Reconquista never happens. Spain and Portugal don’t kickstart Europe’s colonization of other continents. And this is what Africa might have looked like.
Tags: Africa, colonialism, borders, historical, map.
Source: bigthink.com
A site in the Old City of Jerusalem, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, has been a flash point since the advent of modern Zionism.
Source: www.nytimes.com
There has been turmoil and violence in Jerusalem this month; at it’s core, much of the fighting has been around the political control of sacred spaces that are seen as critical to both groups’ cultural and religious identity. This particular sacred place is intertwined with both Judaism as well as Islam, and understanding the current round of violence demands that we understand some of the historical geography of religion in Jerusalem. To explore more about sacred sites in general as a spatial concept, visit this link.
Tags: religion, culture, Islam, Israel, Palestine, territoriality, political, Middle East.
You’re too smart to share this nonsense
Source: theweek.com
Many students today are digital natives and teachers often assume that students understand how to 1) find, 2) evaluate and 3) vett online resources in a critical manner. To read more about assessing geographic-specific resources online, see this article here.
Tags: social media.
Which statement is true?
A. 60% of all households without toilets in the world are in India.
B. India’s Muslims are less affected by the sanitation problem than Hindus.
C. India’s lack of toilets is worse than China’s.
D. Lack of toilets in India puts women at especially high risk.
Source: www.theglobalist.com
This is the ultimate trick question because unfortunately, ALL of these statements are true. India is a country of tremendous economic growth, but also filled with squalor; there are more cellphones than toilets in India. The lack of adequate sanitation and toilets is serious enough that that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made building toilets a national priority. Comics are using their platform to bring this issue of uneven development to light.
Tags: development, poverty, India.
“Thanksgiving has some fascinating spatial, historical and cultural components to it…here are some of my favorite teaching resources to use as Thanksgiving approaches.”
Tags: Thanksgiving, food, seasonal.
Source: geographyeducation.org
“Did you know that Swedish has more in common with Hindi than it does with Finnish? Explaining everything within the limits of the world is probably too ambitious a goal for a list like this. But here are 23 maps and charts that can hopefully illuminate small aspects of how we manage to communicate with one another.”
Tags: language, culture, English, infographic.
Source: www.vox.com
Corn, watermelon, and peaches were unrecognizable 8,000 years ago.
Source: www.vox.com
I think the term ‘artificial’ in the image might be misleading and it depends on your definition of the word. Humans have been selectively breed plants and animals for as long as we’ve been able to domestic them; that is a ‘natural’ part of our cultural ecology and has lead to great varieties of crops that are much more suitable for human consumption than what was naturally available. Long before climate change, humans have been actively shaping their environment and the ecological inputs in the systems with the technology that their disposal. This is a good resource to teach about the 1st agricultural revolution.
Tags: food, agriculture, consumption, unit 5 agriculture.
“Create a Map of all the places you’ve been.”
Source: m.maploco.com
This is an incredibly limited mapping platform, but if all you want to do is put states of the United States into two simple categories (such as ‘states I have visited’ and ‘states I have not visited’), then this works.
Tags: Tags: mapping, 201, edtech, cartography, mapping, USA.
