[ArneFufkin]

You can't understand politics, history and economics if you don't understand geography.

[NathanR]

You can't understand politics, history and economics if you don't understand geography.

Most people can have a working knowledge of these subjects without knowing *any* geography. True, you might not know the *why* of some of these things, especially history, but many people don't care about that. They just want to know what affects them now, not why that came to be.