Natural-geographic factor in the historical process of the Adyghs

Abstract

The desire to have a better grip of the history and to interpret the causes and nature of certain social phenomena is characteristic of humanity at all stages of development. Expansion of cognitive capabilities of historical research, the creation of new units in the mental lexicon allow us to increase the range of vision of history, to give the understanding of the past a holistic, more capacious understanding. Translation of history in the context of many sciences creates resources for the emergence of generally accepted attitudes into a different semantic dimension, filling them with more weighty argumentation. In the modern scientific space historical geography appears to be a promising territory, given a certain conditionality of the development of society at all stages of the existence influenced by the natural-geographical factor. In the early stages of human development the existence of people depended on the characteristics of nature to a much greater extent than today. Nevertheless, modern civilization, despite the scientific progress, has not managed to distance itself from the influence of nature and is still interconnected with it by many threads. This general situation is fully true for the Circassians, the borders of the territory, which were deliberately created by nature itself for the conservation of the population within its natural limits. In this regard, the subject of the research is the problem of the influence of the natural-geographical factor on the historical process of the Circassians. The object of the research is the peculiarities of the geography of the region, reflecting the degree of the role of the natural environment in the formation of the Adygh ethnos. The aim of the research is to analyze the nature of the interaction and conditionality of the Adygeyan history by the natural environment, rightfully recognized as one of the most ancient and unique cradles of the landscape map of our country. To achieve this goal tasks were set related to the analysis of the content, orientation and mediation of the progressive development of the Circassians by the peculiarities of the natural environment. In this research the understanding of the sought problem is based on the ideas of major philosophers, historians, sociologists, and cultural scientists. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity, which allows us to see new facets in understanding many phenomena of the Adyghe history, to give them a value characteristic

Keywords

• the north caucasus
• the adyghs
• historical process
• democratic governance
• culture
• geographic factor
• natural environment
• local development
• landscape
• river systems
• the caucasus mountains
• the black sea