How do natural features such as rivers, lakes, and mountains help unite people or keep them isolated from each other?

How do natural features such as rivers, lakes, and mountains help unite people or keep them isolated from each other?

3/30/2011

Kyle C.

Weather and Geography Conditions:

In the ancient times, communities and groups dwell together to form a place; when the population of groups increased, the space dominated by a certain group became smaller and there were level-headed leaders to charge the land. As the communities/lands were all isolated from one another, there were lack of communication going on; to add insult to injury, there were severe weather and disasters (flood for example), which caused people there to suffer. Though each community had an idea to prevent this accidence, they needed extra support. The only solution they had was to gather together and create a stop to this by inundating; by uniting, their lives could've been easier from the harmful disasters.

On the contrary, as the small groups united, there had to be a particular leader. Due to the fact that there had to be one, all the contenders were in a fight causing troubles in this. It was not the problem of geography conditions, it was all about who was capable of ruling the land. But back to what I said, another impact that could had isolated the nomes, was the fight of the charge of one's land, due to the fact that in the past and still today, people (especially farmers) prefer surfaces where it is easy to farm, meets the weather condition they want, and best of all, the water (lakes, rivers etc.) for the crops. When the land where one was in charge was in a stage of lack of crops, one had to invade and conquer to suit him/herself. In conclusion, the natural features of the world led to unite or to keep apart from others.