Geography of the World
Relies on longitude and latitude to identify the specific location of where something is
What is absolute location?
How Ptolemy's works affected European mapmakers during the 1400s
What is produce more accurate maps?
Condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
What is weather?
The recovery and study of physical evidence from the past
What is archaeology?
This involves studying:
1) who was involved
2) what the issues were
3) Why events happened the way they did
4) how an event affected what happens next
What is investigating a historical event?
Affects the availability of different types of food, animals, & building materials; Varies from place to place; Affects ways of life
What is vegetation?
The map projection where oceans are divided but accurately shows the shapes and sizes of landmasses. Distances on the map are not correct.
What is a Homolosine Projection?
What is a projection?
Name the processes archaeologists go through to learn about ancient societies (4)
What are:
1) finding a location/site
2) surveying the site, mapping, collecting surface objects and locating them on a map
3) Excavating, describing, photographing, counting, preserving evidence, and
4) drawing conclusions?
Name the 4 types of evidence historians rely on to answer questions about the past
What are:
1) primary sources
2) secondary sources
3) oral histories and
4) archaeological evidence?
Name the 5 themes of geography
What are region, place, location, movement, and human-environment interaction?
Name 5 main elements of maps
What are
1) landforms
2) bodies of water
3) latitude and longitude lines
4) compass rose
5) scale?
The study of humans and human cultures
What is anthropology?
The 5 aspects of life included in the study of culture
What are the
1) arts
2) beliefs
3) customs
4) language and
5) technology of a people?
This can change a historical interpretation
What is discovery of new evidence?
What are landforms?
These maps show landforms and bodies of water and include modern country borders but do not include the names of countries
What are Physical Maps?
All primary sources are written (true/false)
What is false? (Oral history is a primary source that is spoken)
How Cancuen differed from other Mayan cities
What is a Mayan city with no temples? (Archaeologists concluded Cancuen was a center of trade)
This can disprove all or part of an old historical interpretation and create the need for a new one
What is new evidence?
The 2 themes of geography that "deal with what it's like in a certain location" & "an area of Earth's surface with distinctive characteristics"
What are place and region?
How historians use the the same technology as geographers in their work
What is using GIS technology to layer data and create historical maps using historical and geographic data?
What historians use evidence for (2)
What is:
1) answer historical questions and
2) interpret the past?
The different types of information archaeologists and anthropologists provide for historians (3)
What are:
1) evidence from the past
2) focus on finding and studying artifacts (archaeologists) and
3) studying artifacts and the beliefs/values of a culture (anthropologists)?
Name 3 questions historians ask when examining secondary sources.
What is:
1) Why was source written/recorded
2) Whom was the source written for
3) What was the author's point of view?