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

Historical Themes: Cooperation and Conflict 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: 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

Social Institutions 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 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 Staying relatively the same over time What can endure time Institutions Ideas Problems Change: The constant altering of society by the forces of history