Vocabulary
Compelling Question
Can be relative (near) or absolute (coordinates)
Location
True or False: Historically compelling questions never have just one answer and are argumentative in nature.
True
Marco Polo's Travelogue about what he witnessed regarding the Mongols
Primary
The Diary of Anne Frank would be classified as this kind of source.
Primary Source
The climate and the language people speak fall under this theme of geography.
Place
True or False: Historical narratives can be written/organized in different ways including in chronological order and also thematically.
True
A World History Textbook
Secondary
Bias
Regions
True or False: Textbooks are classified as primary sources.
False
A book review summarizing a book on Japanese internment camps
Secondary
The way the story is told. Often chronological, but sometimes thematic.
Narrative
Migration and immigration are both factors of this theme of Geography.
Movement
True or False: Ethical questions are good historically compelling questions. (i.e. It was moral to drop the atomic bomb on Japan at the end of WWII?)
False
Letters written between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Primary
Materials created by trustworthy sources are deemed as _____ sources.
This fifth and final theme of geography details how man has impacted the land it inhabits with new structures, and how the land has impacted the humans that inhabit it (good for farming)
Human-Environment Interaction
True or False: Primary sources never contain bias.
False
A picture of Babe Ruth at a baseball game
Primary