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Geographical Themes
Everything happens somewhere
Geographical Themes:
Location
Where an event occurs Absolute Location
– the exact location found through the use of longitude and latitude, street addresses, or street map grids.
Relative Location– where the place is relative to
other places
Geographical Themes: Place
Description of the place that makes it different from other places
Physical – Natural features of the place
(temperature, bodies of water, etc.)
Cultural– Description of the way of life of the
people that live there
Geographical Themes: Region
A group of places bound together by one or more similar characteristics
Geographical Themes: Movement
In the historical sense, the movement of people, goods, and ideas
Geographical Themes: Environmental Interaction
The relationship with place How humans change the
environment of the place
Historical Themes
Looking for Patterns
Cooperation:–when members of a group work together
to achieve a common goal
Conflict:–when rival groups seek to coerce, harm,
or even destroy each other
Historical Themes: Cooperation and Conflict
Historical Themes:
The Impact of Ideas
Mental threads that bind the minds of people together sufficiently for joint action to occur
Ism:–a suffix that means a doctrine or set of ideas
Historical Themes:
Economics and History
The way that a society provides the material necessities for survival (food, clothing, shelter, etc.)
How the necessities are distributed to its members
Historical Themes:
Technology and History
The tools and skills people use to meet their needs
New technologies lead to changes in society
Historical Themes:Human-Environment Interaction
How humans affect and are affected by their environment
Historical Themes:Cultural Development
The expression of cultural characteristics through philosophy and art
Historical Themes:
Social Institutions
Groups of people working together to provide for society’s basic needs
Government–To maintain order and security
Social Institutions
Religion–To explain the meaning of existence–To reinforce moral values
Social Institutions
Education–To train the young and instill in them the norms and values of the society
Social Institutions
Economic system–To provide food and shelter–To determine how necessities are
distributed to its members
Social Institutions
Social Institutions
The Family–To raise new generations to replace the old
Historical Themes:
Individuals
Those who play a prominent role determining the events of history
Historical Themes:
Continuity and Change
Continuity:–Staying relatively the same over
time»What can endure time
• Institutions• Ideas• Problems
Change:–The constant altering of society by
the forces of history