Settlements Human/Urban Geography. What are they? Settlements are purposely grouped and organized...
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Historical Approach
• England has a complex cultural geography
• 5000 years ago, the earliest settlers left their marks with monuments such as Stonehenge
• Later the Celts occupied England (ancestors of the Scots, Welsh and Irish)
• Romans then came and built fortified towns
• In 1066 William of Normandy conquered England. William brought in many French lords and gave them a lot of land for settlement. This led to future contention between England and France which remains today.
• Henry VIII came along and destroyed the Roman cathedrals
• This is part of a destroyed cathedral in York (the dissolution of the monasteries)
• Each of these peoples left an imprint on England and its landscape.
• This process is called sequent occupance a process of settlement by successive groups of people in which each group creates a distinctive cultural landscape
Paragraph Assignment
Consider that Sequent Occupance is reflected by layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that reflect years of differing human activity.
Choose any city in the world and write a ½ pg paragraph (approximately 200-300 words) describing the changes in physical and human landscape over the many years of occupancy.
Think of: the different groups that occupied the area, how they used the land/resources, how they changed or added to the
landscape (physical and human)
Due: Tomorrow