5 Themes Of Geography
This theme answers the question, "Where is it?" by describing a place's exact coordinates or its location relative to other places.
What is Location?
This European country claimed vast territories in the Americas after Columbus’s voyages, including much of South and Central America.
What is Spain?
This leader helped liberate much of South America from Spanish control, earning the title "Liberator."
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This word means the way people, goods, and ideas connect and move around the world.
What is globalization?
This civilization built a vast empire in the Andes Mountains of South America, known for its advanced road system and terrace farming.
What is the Inca?
This theme explains what a place is like by describing its physical and human characteristics.
What is Place?
This system forced Native Americans to work for Spanish colonists in harsh conditions, often in mines or on plantations.
What is the encomienda system?
Many independence movements in Central and South America were influenced by this European country’s weakening grip after this early 19th-century conflict.
France/Napoleonic Wars
This is one way cultures mix and share traditions, languages, and foods because of globalization.
What is cultural diffusion?
This civilization developed a writing system using glyphs and a complex calendar in present-day Mexico and Central America.
What is the Maya?
This theme explores how people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another.
What is movement?
This devastating effect of European colonization drastically reduced Native American populations.
What is old world disease?
This Caribbean island was the site of the first successful slave revolt that led to independence in 1804.
What is Haiti?
This term describes the goods and money that move between countries during globalization and trade.
What are imports and exports?
This empire was centered around the city of Tenochtitlán and was known for its powerful military and human sacrifices.
What is the Aztec?
This theme looks at how people adapt to or change their surroundings to meet their needs.
What is human environment interaction?
The introduction of new crops and animals to Central and South America by Europeans is part of this major exchange.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This leader was a former slave who became a key figure in Haiti’s fight for independence from France.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This economic principle means when more people want a product than there is available, the price usually goes up.
What is supply and demand?
The Aztec capital city was located on an island in this large lake in present-day Mexico.
What is Lake Texcoco?
This theme divides the world into areas that share common characteristics, such as language, climate, or culture.
What is region?
This forced movement brought millions of Africans to Central and South America to work on plantations during colonization.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
After gaining independence, Haiti’s economy struggled partly due to this system imposed by France demanding payments for lost colonial property.
What is extreme debt?
This is money set aside for future use instead of spending it immediately.
What is saving?
The Inca built a system of these to help communicate and transport goods across their empire.
What are roads?