The five themes of geography are: Location – Absolute points on a map or grid or in relation to where something may be found; Place – The physical and/or human characteristics of a place; Human/Environment Interactions – How humans have impacted the landscape or environment; Relationship between places Movement – ​​How humans interact on earth (i.e. how they communicate over distance (short or long)) and regions – a unit of space that has commonalities defined by the physical, human and environmental geography. The explorers of the New World may not have known what the five themes of geography were, but they quickly learned them. Of the five themes, the one they all benefited from was physical location and location as they learned to navigate to and from as well as through their new environments. Over time, explorers began to discover the relationships between their environments and the land's first occupants and the regions they now occupied. Early explorers of the eastern seaboard of North America quickly learned who owned the land, as evidenced by cross-country travel. funded explorations of the eastern coast of the New World, with the exception of De Soto who traversed the interior of the eastern and southern regions. The Spanish claimed what is now Florida, the French remained near and near the northeastern parts of modern-day Canada, and the Dutch, English, and Swedes were in the areas of northeastern United States today. Each claimed parts of Florida. New World and everyone respected the boundaries of these areas in one way or another. Relatively speaking, these same areas were not only divided by national issues but sometimes by belief or heritage (i.e. Puritan, Protestant, Catholic, etc.) which is...... middle of paper ...... Old World (Europe) or among the populated regions of North America. Communications with the Old World were inherently dependent on ships and people traveling. Journeys across the Atlantic could take up to a year, which meant that if you lived in Jamestown before the mid-1600s, you would most likely be dead before your message reached whoever you wanted it sent to and get an answer. Land communications were done either on foot or on horseback. If you were to contact someone in another colony, you would either have to do it yourself or hope that someone would travel that direction to deliver the message. Both means of communication (abroad or between colonies) were very slow and sometimes unreliable. Works cited1. Carville Earl, “Environment, Disease, and Mortality in Early Virginia,” Journal of Historical Geography 5, 4 (1979): 365-390