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