Sunday, September 12, 2010

Geography project - Map final assessment


      The Floriana World history
            The Floriana World is a world that faraway from the Earth. It was created by Lady Flora, a goddess. She loved shoes so much that she made her land has a shoe-shape. Lady Flora created many things. One of them was a point; it shows people their location by giving them a series of numbers, according to latitudes and longitude on map of Lady Flora. On the map, latitudes are horizontal lines and longitudes are vertical lines. There were four main directions for fishermen to locate his location: North, South, East and West.
            At the beginning, there were only 2 countries in the Floriana world, the U.S.S and the U.S. Later on, the U.T.N, a new country, was born by religious conflicts between the U.S.S and the U.S. The conflict began when Glasism, a very popular religion was born in a cape faraway down to the Southwest of the Floriana world. It stated that glasses were very important, each family needed to buy glasses because Lady Flora always wore glasses everywhere she came. Glasism spread upward toward the center of the world. But the Glasism missionaries were not always welcomed by the local people every time they went to new place. Some people said they couldn’t afford to buy glasses; some said glasses are old-fashioned and ugly. However, the Flope (who led the religion) wanted to have more followers so he declared that anyone who follows the religion would receive 2kg of rice every month and have free glasses. After the declaration, the situation became more positive; many more people acknowledged the religion and the missionaries’ work went well. Unfortunately, no longer after the declaration, there were rebellions along the religious places. People started to argue which materials they should choose to make glasses, diamond or crystal. There were fights, bloodshed in diamond’s and crystal’s factories. After 20 years of fighting, 2 countries were divided into 3. Therefore, Flope’s office also divided into 3 offices and the power of the religion also decreased. The new country was the U.T.N. Even though 3 countries still didn’t have the same idea in their religion but they still trade with each other for their citizens’ good. People traded bread, fresh fish, coffee beans, grapes, silk, computers, books, shoes, socks, etc… Some people lived near shores moved to cities to find jobs; some people lived near mountains moved to rivers to grow crops. People even moved from their country to another by passports.
            In the Floriana world, people had lots of ways to interact with the environment. Near rivers, they grew crops, farmed; on sea shores they set up fishing villages and caught fish. Water got raw sewage caused water pollution. The need of wood made people deforest, left only three forests left in the world. Besides, the need of materials to make glasses also made people mining diamond and crystal mines. But in the other hand, people also recycle trash, for example, papers have already used by human used to print newspaper.
            Lands in Floriana world were very fertile. There were rivers, lakes, mountains, rainy zone (humid zone), sunny zone (dry zone), mines…etc therefore people had many choices for their jobs. Through hundred of earthquakes on the surface of the world, mountains were formed. In the U.S.S, its capital, Floopy was a great example of fertile land. Floopy was settled on plain, an even and flat topography. Floopy had many advantages in its topography. In Floopy, most of the people chose to grow crops because Floopy located was between two rivers. To the right is big forest, and not faraway to the left was sea port. Another advantage was Floopy was the capital so many people flocked into the city to find jobs. Plus, highway in the U.S.S ran through Floopy so it gave people way to travel, if there are any rivers interrupted the highway, bridges were the most efficient supporters.
            Go along the Southwest coast, this region shared many similar characteristics. 3 sea port were the main economic ports because 3 of them were met the river mouth so it took more people’s attention and the sea ports became wider. Taking the advantage of locating on sea shores, people caught fish, and they trade goods between the U.S.S and The U.T.N. Their jobs were mainly fishers so people mostly found food by fishing. Moreover, depended on the climate, the level of how fertile land was, people also grew crops because the zone was a rainy zone so people always have job to do. Even though the zone spread into 2 countries but people still spoke the same language and they were very religious people.

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