1.1: The Phantom Historian
Who is a historian?
How and why people, things, and ideas move.
What is movement?
Borrowing money.
What is credit?
Name any duty.
What are obeying the law, paying taxes, serving on a jury, and signing up for selective service
A system for breaking time into units and keeping track of those units.
What is calendar?
This type of source comes from someone who saw or lived through an event.
What's a primary source?
Where something is.
What is Location?
Idea that there isn't enough of everything for everyone.
What is scarcity?
Government can limit your rights to protect this.
What is the health, safety, and rights of others?
Natural feature of the Earth's land surface.
What is landform?
Our textbook is this type of source, since it compiles many firsthand accounts and is written by people who weren't at the event.
What's a secondary source?
Only true way to represent Earth's surface.
What's a globe?
The three factors of production.
Land, labor, and capital.
This amendment says you can't have life, liberty, or property taken away without due process of the law.
What is the 5th amendment?
Money.
What is capital?
AD
What is anno domini?
This map can show landforms, relief, and elevation.
What is a physical map?
Lots of goods, not many people want it: price goes down.
What is Supply and Demand?
Responsibilities are ______, meaning you can choose to do them or not.
What's voluntary?
Becoming a citizen.
What is naturalization?
Reading between the lines to come to an understanding.
What is drawing inferences and conclusions?
This type of map projection emphasizes the northern and southern regions, making places like Russia and Antarctica waaaay too big.
What's a Mercator Projection?
Example: Chairs from China now have a tax when entering the USA.
What is a tariff?
Alexander the Great's empire (while brief) had this kind of government.
What is autocratic?
Jimmy has $500. Buying a business license for his lemonade stand costs $250, and the wood for the stand costs another $200 due to inflation. Having a sinking feeling about this whole situation, Jimmy takes out a loan for $1000 to get his business started, but by the end of the year interest has doubled the owed amount to $2000. If Jimmy makes $30 a day from passers by and his watered down lemonade costs $20 a day to make, what kind of person is Jimmy?
What is an entrepreneur?