Studying History
People who study history
What are historians?
The study of the earth’s physical and cultural features.
What is geography?
A system of producing, selling, and buying goods and services.
What is an economy?
The study of citizenship.
What is civics?
A government where citizens elect an executive and representatives who participate in government and make laws.
What is a republic?
A process that historians use to help them understand the past.
What is historical inquiry?
The natural features of the land’s surface.
What are landforms?
Businesses are willing to produce more of a good or service at a higher price.
What is the law of supply?
The organizations and individuals who have the right to rule over a group of people.
What is a government?
A supreme leader governs with absolute power.
What is a dictatorship?
The knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people.
What is culture?
The two types of geography.
What are physical and human geography?
Consumers will want to buy more of a good or service when its price falls.
What is the law of demand?
A written plan of government.
What is a constitution?
A king or queen by birth governs with absolute power or share some power with a small group.
What is a monarchy?
Primary and secondary sources
What are the two types of historical sources?
Materials found in the earth that people need and value.
What are resources?
Natural resources, capital, labor & entrepreneurs
What are the factors of production?
The money an individual or business has left after paying expenses or bills.
What is profit?
A government where religious leaders hold power. Laws and government are based on religious teachings.
What is a theocracy?
Historians form different opinions about the primary sources they study and may not interpret past events in the same way.
Why historians don't always agree about what happened in the past?
Early peoples developed vastly different cultures because of their environments.
How geography shapes culture?
They are primarily market economies but with features of traditional and command economic systems.
What is a mixed economy?
Incentives or benefits
What influences economic activity?
A government where all eligible citizens participate in government and make laws.
What is a direct democracy?