History can provide you with a better understanding of where you live. It is the record of people's efforts. It helps you develop mental skills. It promotes good decision making skills. It gives us wisdom.
What are the benefits from studying the past?
100
Physical and Human Geography
What are the two branches of Geography?
200
Archeology
What is the study of the past based on what people left behind?
200
climate
What is the pattern of weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time?
200
Bones and footprints
What are fossils?
200
What kind of work did people do? How do they get their food? What are their homes like? What religion do they practice?
What is human geography?
300
culture
What is the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people?
300
Geography
What is the study of the Earth's physical and cultural features?
300
Coins, arrowheads, tools, and pottery
What are artifacts?
300
People have been making these for more than 4,000 years. They help with many activities such as: planning battles, looking for new lands, and designing new city parks
What are maps?
400
primary source
What is an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event?
400
Living and nonliving things that affect life in an area
What is environment?
400
Treaties, letters, laws, court documents, royal commands, audios and videos
What are primary sources?
400
Landforms, climate, and environment
What is physical geography?
500
secondary source
What is information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness the event?
500
region
What is an area with one or more features that make it different from surrounding areas?
500
Water, animals, fertile land, and stones for tools
What are essential resources in early times?
500
Differences in climate, physical geography, languages or physical barriers