1. Geographical Themes
Everything happens somewhere

2. 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

3. 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

4. Geographical Themes: Region
A group of places bound together by one or more similar characteristics

5. Geographical Themes: Movement
In the historical sense, the movement of people, goods, and ideas

6. Geographical Themes: Environmental Interaction
The relationship with place
How humans change the environment of the place

7. Historical Themes
Looking for Patterns

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Historical Themes: Technology and History
The tools and skills people use to meet their needs
New technologies lead to changes in society

12. Historical Themes: Human-Environment Interaction
How humans affect and are affected by their environment

13. Historical Themes: Cultural Development
The expression of cultural characteristics through philosophy and art

14. Historical Themes: Social Institutions
Groups of people working together to provide for society’s basic needs

15. Social Institutions
Government
To maintain order and security

16. Social Institutions Religion To explain the meaning of existence
To reinforce moral values

17. Social Institutions Education
To train the young and instill in them the norms and values of the society

18. Social Institutions Economic system To provide food and shelter
To determine how necessities are distributed to its members

19. Social Institutions The Family
To raise new generations to replace the old

20. Historical Themes: Individuals
Those who play a prominent role determining the events of history

21. 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