1. Maps of time, space and history
Getting our Bearings
Maps of time, space and history

2. Why do we need to know this?

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5. Prepare to live in the world
World scale cultural literacy
Perspectives between past and present
Increased “Global” world: economy, societies, cultures
Tied via technology
Growing interdependence
Understand connections between yourself & groups, times and places so you can find your place in the world

6. You and perspective JOB YOU CITY STATE FAMILY FRIENDS SCHOOL COUNTRY
TEACHERS
SCHOOL
JOB
NEIGH- BORHOOD
COUNTRY
STATE

7. Why start with the globe?
Because it is a place and we all have a shared history as people living on this place
Events take place in different places and times, but all are parts of the earth
Earth itself is part of a larger context in the solar system, galaxy and world
A LOT has happened in over 4 billion years
Man as been here for 7 million years

8. “think the world”
Technology means we can experience the same thing at the same time
Intertwining
Where was your shirt made?
Where did the materials to make it come from?
How did they get there?
Where did you buy it?
How did it get to the store?
Where did the money come from to buy it?
That shirt impacted how many lives? How may places?

9. No such thing as isolation
Tsunami in Japan, March 2011
Destruction’s impact on Japan resulted in loss of:
property
life
jobs
Destruction’s impact on the world
Loss of production of Japanese goods
Demand for resources to rebuild
Financial support
Loss of Japanese income means less demand for certain types of foreign goods

10. Scales of space and time
18th century Italian document explaining a court decision:
Magnifying glass: look at writing and document itself
Study the author and the proceedings that lead to the document being written
Study the society whose laws are being applied to get some insight on their cultural values
Panoramic (broad) view of the Enlightenment in Europe and impact on law and society

11. Space and Time Independent of each other
Examine a very specific place over a large time period
Examine a continent over a short period of time
i.e.: Wisconsin since the glacier to today
i.e.: United States on 9/11/2001
i.e. Public Enemy and their impact on music in NY; the country; the world; and/or on MTV; political influence (window of society in late 1980s); history of hip hop in general…

12. Culture Language, institutions, moral codes, social routines
Shared culture can enable people to have some expectations or predictions
Cope with change
Effects of change vary and can result in big or small reactions, good or bad

13. Global change Not just 1 event affecting 1 thing Now it’s global:
War in Iraq = gas prices go up = shipping costs more = everything costs more = companies close because can’t afford increased costs = loss of jobs = less people buying things…
War in Iraq = racial and religious prejudice increases

14. Basic Geography Physical and natural environment
Patterns of topography (what the land itself looks like), vegetation (plants), climate (hot/cold, wet/dry, etc.) and weather (patterns)

15. Afroeurasia: Africa, Europe, Asia

16. America/the Americas

17. Australasia

18. Eurasia

19. Great Arid Zone

20. Inner Eurasia

21. Oceania

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23. “Cartography”king ous
“Chronography”: term used for 500 years
The art of arranging historical events
“Cartography”: since 1859
The art of map making
Ways to describe relationships in time and space
Document these relationships
Maps tell us where we are
Other things and people are now
Where things and people were in the past
Our relationships with those things

24. Elements of maps ousman is your king
Title: why?
Tells us what the map shows
Legend: what does it tell us?
What’s what
Symbols
Representations
Scale: why does it matter?
Size in relation to other things on the map
Proportions
perspective

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Compass:
Orientation
Where is it in relation to the world
Points of reference
How do we know where we are at?
i.e. latitude and longitude to show position on a map
i.e. hash-marks on a timeline to show increments of time