Geography
These kinds of maps show you where mountains, deserts, jungles and other natural features are located.
What is a Physical Map?
Any kind of information about a historical event, time period or person would be considered one of these.
What is a source?
A government where people vote for a legislature, and the legislature chooses a leader.
What is a Parliamentary Democracy?
What to produce?
How to produce it?
Who to produce it for?
These vertical lines show how far east or west you are.
What are lines of longitude?
A soldier's journal, a diary or a newspaper article.
What is a Primary Source?
This kind of government is ruled by a king or queen without anyone telling them what to do. Long live the king!
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
This economic system is all about your community! If your grandpa made shoes, and your father made shoes, then your last name is probably Shoemaker!
What is a Traditional Economy?
This kind of map shows you where countries, towns, states and other man-made features are located.
What is a political map?
A history textbook, historical monograph or documentary.
What is a secondary source?
This kind of government has citizens voting for both the executive and the legislature. It's born in the U.S.A.!
What is a Presidential Democracy?
Because all economies today are mixed, they fall on this spectrum between a Command and Market Economy.
What is an Economic Continuum?
These horizontal lines show you how far north or south you are.
What are lines of latitude?
A.D. Means this, which is Latin for "The Year of our Lord", rather than "After Death".
What is Anno Domini?
This kind of government is ruled by a small group of people, usually businessmen, military officers or other people with power.
What is an Oligarchy?
Capital Goods, Human Capital, Natural Resources and Entrepreneurship are all this, which is used to make goods and services we use every day!
What are the factors of production?
These are the two special lines that are at 0 degrees latitude and longitude.
What are the Equator and Prime Meridian?
It's kind of like a number line but for history, where events are placed in chronological order.
What is a Timeline?
This is how military juntas and some dictatorships get into power, when the army overthrows the government and puts their own people in charge.
What is a Coup D'etat?
If a country wants to limit the amount of imported goods, but doesn't want to raise taxes, they should do this instead!
What is a Quota?