Key Themes in History
A big idea that can be used to write or talk about many situations in a topic
What is a theme?
The human sense that an idea or action is good or bad.
A people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothing.
What is culture?
This animal was hunted for food using bows and arrows.
What are deer?
What is Alaska?
This theme in history involves the importance of respecting differences in a person's characteristics and qualities they use to describe themselves.
What is expressing identity?
The study of how populations change over time.
What is demography?
All of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants, and climate
What is environment?
This type of nut was ground into meal and was an important food source for Native Americans.
What are acorns?
The first Americans migrated across the Bering strait on this type of bridge
What is a Land Bridge?
This key theme in history involves trading ideas, goods, and services with others.
What is worlds of exchange?
The total number of people who live in an area, country, or region.
Useful material found in nature, including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals.
What are natural resources?
California Native Americans made useful items like baskets and fish traps by weaving this material.
What are plants?
This people group had relatives in the United States 10,000 years ago.
Who are Native Americans?
This key theme in history involves the connection between nations' access to natural resources and wealth.
The group of characteristics and qualities that a person uses to describe themselves.
What is identity?
A move of a large number of people.
What is migration?
This number of different groups of Native Americans made their homes in the diverse environments of California.
What is 100?
Europeans started to make permanent settlements in North America this many years ago.
What is 500 years?
This theme is described as investigating how populations have lived, migrated, and changed throughout history.
What is patterns of population?
The belief in a force or supreme deity that impacts human life.
What is spiritualty?
An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
What is a cultural region?
These creatures were mainly hunted for food in the coastal areas.
What are salmon and shellfish?
Water levels were low during the Ice Age because water was frozen in these frozen formations.
What are glaciers?