Much of the geography is taken up with forests, a notability for the entire province of Småland, with some few scattered areas suitable for agriculture.

The geography of southern Mesopotamia is such that agriculture is possible only with irrigation and good drainage, a fact which has had a profound effect on the evolution of early Mesopotamian civilization.

Developed originally to predict probability distributions of ore grades for mining operations, it is currently applied in diverse disciplines including petroleum geology, hydrogeology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, geochemistry, geometallurgy, geography, forestry, environmental control, landscape ecology, soil science, and agriculture ( esp.

The records of his visit include sketches of the early city buildings, a description of local geography and agriculture, commentary on its politics and social order, essays, speeches, and sermons from Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and other prominent leaders, and snapshots of everyday life such as newspaper clippings and the menu from a high-society ball.

The geography is still dominated by nature and agriculture and some lakes and streams, besides the urban areas.

Tingsryd Municipality is located in an area of traditional Mid-Sweden forestry, with some agriculture areas, and the geography is also taken up by many small lakes.

Farnham's history and present status are mainly the result of its geography ; a combination of river, streams, fresh water springs and varied soils, together with a temperate climate, attracted early man to the area and, even today, the geology of the area greatly influences the town, both in terms of communications, scenic and botanic variety and the main local industries of agriculture and minerals extraction.

Major topics covered by almanacs ( reflected by their tables of contents ) include: geography, government, demographics, agriculture, economics and business, health and medicine, religion, mass media, transportation, science and technology, sport, and awards / prizes.

Later, the studies ( military strategies, civil law, revenue and taxation, agriculture and geography ) were added to the testing.

The curriculum was then expanded to cover the " Five Studies ": military strategy, civil law, revenue and taxation, agriculture and geography, and the Confucian classics.

Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī ( 828 – 896 )() was a Muslim polymath excelling as much in astronomy, agriculture, botany and metallurgy and as he did in geography, mathematics and history.

Besides his work on Homer, Crates wrote commentaries on the Theogony of Hesiod, on Euripides, on Aristophanes, and probably on other ancient authors ; a work on the Attic dialect ; and works on geography, natural history, and agriculture, of all of which only a few fragments exist.

Their subjects covered include agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences.

Many of the legendary beings, with appearances motivated by local geography, have powers and influenced much in agriculture and worldview of Iquitos.

Unlike the reports of the others who commented nearly only on political, military, and commercial matters, Bland's were longer and provided more discussion on geography and agriculture.

There were many significant developments in economy ( especially trade and public finance ), military, medicine, agriculture, cuisine, astronomy, printing, geography, and historiography, which were not limited to Eurasia but North Africa.

* volumes 74 – 76: Oekonomisch-technologische Encyklopädie, oder allgemeines System der Staats-Stadt-Haus-und Landwirthschaft, wie auch der Erdbeschreibung, Kunst-und Naturgeschichte ... (" Economic-Technological Encyclopaedia, or general system of state, city, domestic economy and agriculture as well as of geography, art and natural history ...")

The novel does a notable job of recreating a primal ancient civilization, complete with the geography, climate, plants, animals, ethnicities, countryside, agriculture, cities, trades, commerce, social stratification, politics, religion and warfare.

The intended liberalization of commercial intercourse did not occur, but collaboration was extended to a series of areas, such as health ( Pan-American Health Organization ), geography and history ( Pan-American Institute of Geography and History ), child protection and children's rights ( International American Institute for the Protection of Children ), rights of the woman ( Inter-American Commission of Women ), indigenous policies ( Inter-American Indigenist Institute ), agriculture ( Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences ) collective continental defense ( Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Attendance ), economic aid ( Inter-American Development Bank ), human rights ( Inter-American Court of Human Rights ), infrastructure works ( Pan-American Highway ) and peacekeeping ( Inter-American Peace Force ).

The curriculum during these first years included English, math, home economics, geography, general science, biology, physics, chemistry, agriculture and history.

In succeeding decades he published many volumes on Chinese and Mongolian history, geography, religion, statistics, and agriculture.

Shimizu was introduced in a Japanese school textbook of geography as a city with all three industries: agriculture, heavy industry and commerce.

The idea of the impact of the physical environment on civilizations was espoused by this Annales School to describe the long term developments that shape human history by focusing away from political and intellectual history, toward agriculture, demography, and geography.

Thurnscoe's geography is characteristic of glacial moraine, with gentle inclines, good arable clay / loam soil and no irregular boulders.

country of origin and native land ) is the concept of the place ( cultural geography ) to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with — the country in which a particular national identity began.

They determined that all the land in the Great Basin ( centered on modern-day Nevada ) was land-locked, which contributed greatly to the understanding of North American geography at the time.

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders ; the purpose of the physical is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type or land use including infrastructure such as roads, railroads and buildings.

* Coastal geography is the study of the dynamic interface between the ocean and the land, incorporating both the physical geography ( i. e. coastal geomorphology, geology and oceanography ) and the human geography of the coast.

In geography, a plain is land with relatively low relief, that is flat or gently rolling.

Continental writers of Arthurian romances were often puzzled by the internal geography of Great Britain ; thus it is that the author French Prose Tristan appears to place Léonois contiguous, by land, to Cornwall.

* Glade ( geography ), a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area

In ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians or Getae as they were known by the Greeks — a branch of the Thracians north of the Haemus range.

The Greek writer Theophylact Simocatta refers to a migration of Zabender from Asia to Europe in about 598 ; in addition, an Armenian book on geography attributed to Moses of Chorene mentions a town " M-s-n-d-r " in the land of Huns located to the north of Derbent.

The geography of the European part of Netherlands is unusual in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level, protected by dikes.

The Jesuits, however, did not have a chance to visit the island personally, and the inadequate information about its geography provided by the Ke tcheng people and the Manchus who had been to the island would not allow them to identify it with the land visited by de Vries in 1643.

Due to the geography in which the James River approaches Richmond from almost due west, and turns almost due south below the fall line for about before turning east again, the land within Henrico County surrounds the independent city of Richmond to the west, north, and east.

Local geography invites fishing, mountain climbing, and hiking as well as opportunities to experience some of California's wildest land.

In the mid-to-late 19th century, the population of the town and the land decreased as parts were annexed by the neighboring town of Woodbridge and the new town of Beacon Falls was incorporated into the general geography of Connecticut.

The name means " a place where the stream bends " in the Warwarsink language and refers to the geography of the land ; particularly the joining of the Ver Nooy Kill and the Rondout Creek.

During his time with the land office, he traveled extensively throughout the territory, gaining an intimate knowledge of the geography and becoming acquainted with both the white and indigenous populations of Alaska.

Haushofer was exposed to Ratzel, who was friends with Haushofer's father, a teacher of economic geography, and would integrate Ratzel's ideas on the division between sea and land powers into his theories, saying that only a country with both could overcome this conflict.

Thus, Lester Grabbe points to a number of parallels between the Azazel narrative in 1 Enoch and the wording of Leviticus 16, including “ the similarity of the names Asael and Azazel ; the punishment in the desert ; the placing of sin on Asael / Azazel ; the resultant healing of the land .” Daniel Stökl also observes that “ the punishment of the demon resembles the treatment of the goat in aspects of geography, action, time and purpose .” Thus, the place of Asael ’ s punishment designated in 1 Enoch as Dudael is reminiscent of the rabbinic terminology used for the designation of the ravine of the scapegoat in later rabbinic interpretations of the Yom Kippur ritual.

Contemporary economic geographers tend to specialize in areas such as location theory and spatial analysis ( with the help of geographic information systems ), market research, geography of transportation, land or real estate price evaluation, regional and global development, planning, Internet geography, innovation, social networks and others.