Social Studies Terms
An academic discipline that helps one understand themselves and the world around them.
What is social studies?
Supporting your argument, backing it up, pointing to relevant or important facts and details.
What is evidence?
This culture flourished in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans and is known for their large ceremonial mounds.
What is the Mississippian culture?
This route was a major resource for trade across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
What is the Silk Road?
The state Mr. C previously taught in.
What is Mississippi?
The study of money, markets, labor and trade and how it impacts society.
What is economics?
The background, details, and prior information needed to fully understanding something.
What is context?
One of the major religions that spread throughout Eurasia in the 1300s-1700s.
What is Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Judaism?
Access to this geographical feature enables trade across distances and enriches the societies located near it.
What is water? (Oceans, rivers)
The book Mr. C is currently reading.
What is "Death in a Strange Country" by Donna Leon?
The study of the environment and how it shapes and affects society.
What is geography?
Making connections to think logically and support a conclusion.
What is reasoning?
Through this delicious plant Britain and China became connected.
What is tea?
This disease was unintentionally exchanged along trade routes in Europe and Asia.
What is the Plague or Black Death?
The undergraduate institution Grace James attended.
What is West Virginia State College?
The study of governments, how they function, and how people interact with that system.
What is civics?
Events, the results of those events, and the reasons those events happened.
Cause and effect.
This person is known for his wealth, status, and power in West Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This ocean served as a major trading route between Africa and Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The number of national championships of the University of Kentucky men's basketball team.
What is eight?
The study of the past, why it matters, how it happened, and how it affects the present.
What is history?
How things either stay the same or shift throughout a given time period.
What is continuity and change over time?
A major university and mosque was established here in the 1100s.
What is Timbuktu?
This explorer sailed to East Africa from China on expeditions from 1405 to 1433.
Who is Zheng He?
The neighborhood we are currently in.
What is Russell?