1. Theme 1 - Movement The Mobility of People Goods Ideas
How Places are linked to one another and the world

2. Movement Places do not exist in isolation. Examples
Interconnectedness of the world changes the way places “look”.
Today: “globalization”
People, goods & ideas move from place to place.
Examples
Immigration from Latin America to US.
War in Iraq (troops, supplies, ideas, people)
Twitter, Facebook (ideas)

3. MOVEMENT The movement of people goods and ideas Human Movement
Trucks, Trains, Planes
Information Movement
Phones, computer ( ), mail
Idea Movement
How do fads move from place to place?
TV, Radio, Magazines

4. Key Terms Push- Factors causing people to leave a place
Pull- Factors attracting people to a place
Emigration- to leave a country or region to live elsewhere
Immigration- : to come into a foreign country to live
Cultural Diffusion

5. Political
Politics-governments, government policies, wars, and citizen rights
Push-Armed conflict our of political differences
Reasons-invasion or civil war
Push-Escape political persecution
Pull-Greater political freedoms and rights

6. Cubans flee communist government

7. AFGHANS FLED AFTER SOVIET 1979 INVASION & Long civil war

8. Economic Push-poverty Pull-Economic opportunities elsewhere
Often strengthened by social factors
Example: Relatives have already migrated to that place

9. After WWII Turks emigrated to Germany as guest workers

10. Social How people organize into groups, such as religious groups. Push
Example:
Persecution-Religious minorities, Jews
Forced Migration-Atlantic Slave Trade

11. Jews expelled from England, France, & Spain 1290-1492

12. 1994 Tutsi fled Rwanda’s Hutu majority for the neighboring nations of Tanzania and Zaire

13. Diaspora through Atlantic slave trade

14. Environmental Change of the seasons Environmental Changes
Example: Fulani of Africa follow herds south in the dry season and north during the wet season
Environmental Changes
Push- Rising temperatures or series of droughts
Environmental Catastrophes
Push- Crop failures, floods, fires, earthquakes

15. Geography Affects Prevention of Movement: Facilitating Movement
Appalachian Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Southwestern US deserts, Sahara Desert
China’s Great Wall to prevent movement across the Asian Steppes
Facilitating Movement
Oceans, Rivers, Plains