9.0 Basics Bootcamp Flashcards
What are the 7 continents?
Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe
What are the 5 oceans?
Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian, Arctic
What is Historical Context?
Historical Context: the moods, attitudes, and conditions that existed in a certain time→ “The Setting”
What is Geographic Context?
Geographic Context: The ways in which the environment (place) impacts humanity or visa versa.
What are the types of sources?
Primary and Secondary, Qualitative and Quantitative
What is a Primary Source?
These materials include letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles from the time, oral history interviews, documents, photographs, artifacts, or anything else that provides first hand accounts about a person or event.
What is a Secondary Source?
Materials produced after that event, period or issue has passed. Aside from a textbook, the most commonly assigned secondary source is written by an expert in the field.
What is a Qualitative Source?
These sources provide descriptive and interpretive information, often focusing on the perspectives, experiences, and emotions of people in the past.
What is a Quantitative Source?
These sources offer numerical data and are often used to analyze patterns, trends, and comparisons across time. Ex: Statistics, and Graphs/Charts
What is a Cause?
Refers to start/beginning
What is an Effect?
Refers to what happens as a consequence (results, impact, outcomes)
What is a Turning Point?
A major event, idea, or invention that brings about significant change (local, regional, national, or global)
What is a Similarity?
How something is alike or the same as something else
What is a Difference?
How something is not alike or not the same as something else
What is an Economist?
A person who studies or specializes in the interaction between humans and their resources.
What is a Political Scientist?
A person whose specialty is the study of governments and how they work.
What is a Sociologist?
The study of society, social institutions, and social relationships.
What is a Psychologist?
Study the way a person or group thinks.
What is an Anthropologist?
The study of human races, origins, societies, and cultures.
What is an Archaeologist?
Science that deals with past human life and activities by studying the bones, tools, etc., of ancient people.
What is a Historian?
A person who studies or writes about history.
What are the Cardinal Directions?
North, East, South, West
What is a Decade?
A period of 10 years
What is a Century?
A period of 100 years
What is B.C.?
The time before Christ on a timeline
What is A.D.?
Anno Domini-“In the year of our Lord” (Christianity)
What is C.D.?
Common Era – Term now used to replace “A.D.”
What is B.C.E.?
Replaces “B.C.” (before common era)
How do Historians study how people lived in the past?
-Detective work: calculate evidence for reliability and explain its meaning.
-Determine the cause of an event to explain the present and predict the future.
-Personal differences or bias can influence opinions and interpretations, this leads to debate.
-It is the study of famous people and events, but day to day life cannot be overlooked.
What is Geography?
The study of people, their environments, and resources available to them.
What is the first theme of Geography?
- Location: Tells where a place is on the surface earth by using longitude and latitude.
-Aspects Include: Latitude, Longitude, Prime Meridian, Equator, and the Hemispheres
What are some geographic features?
Islands, Mountains, Deserts, Rainforests, Rivers, River Valleys, Plains, Ice
What is the second theme of Geography?
- Place: Geographers describe places in terms of physical features and human characteristics.
What is the third theme of Geography?
- Human-Environment Interaction: People have shaped and have been reshaped by the places in which they live. As technology has advanced people have changed the environment in more complex ways.
What is the fourth theme of Geography?
- Movement: People, goods, and ideas is another key link between geography and history. In early times people followed herds for food, in the modern world people flee wars, religious persecution, and are looking for jobs.
What is the fifth theme of Geography?
- Region: The world is divided by physical, political, economic, and cultural regions.
Physical: The North Country, Southeast Asia, etc.
Political: Western Europe (democratic)
Economic: Capitalism
Cultural: The Swahili language
What are the 8 basic features of civilization?
- Cities: dense population
- Organized Government: regulate social, economic, and political aspects of an area
- Complex Religion/Philosophy: System of beliefs
- Job Specialization: focus on one role
- Social Classes: grouping of people into a hierarchy
- Art and Architecture: music, sculpture, paintings, and pictures (beautify)
- Public Works: societal benefit (roads/bridges)
- System of Writing: written communication
What are some belief systems?
- ANIMISM
Belief: Every living and non-living thing has a spirit. Worshipping of ancestors.
Location: Still found in some traditional societies of the world – often associated with traditional African culture. - SHINTOISM
Belief: Spirits of Kami dwell in many forms of the natural world
Location: a traditional belief system of Japan - HINDUISM
Belief: Reincarnation: the belief that the soul is reborn in the body of another person or thing. (Caste System)
Location: Began in India. Is mainly in India still today. - BUDDHISM
Belief: all people suffer, 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path
Location: began in India - spread to China, Japan, and Southeast Asia - CONFUCIANISM
Belief: Five Relationships, lead a good, moral life, education, government officials should be well educated and good role models
Location: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam - TAOISM
Belief: follow the way of nature – don’t go against the way of nature
Location: China and Taiwan - JUDAISM
Beliefs: monotheism, messiah, Torah,Ten Commandments
Location: began in the Middle East – diaspora – Israel is the Jewish homeland - CHRISTIANITY
Beliefs: monotheism,messiah (Jesus Christ), Bible
Location: began in the Middle East – spread by the Roman Empire (Diaspora) throughout Europe (then on to the rest of the world) - ISLAM
Beliefs: monotheism Five Pillars of Faith (pray 5 times a day, charity, pilgrimage, Ramadan fasting, believe in Allah) Quran (Koran)
Location: begun in the Middle East (Mecca) by Mohammed - dominates the Middle East area today
Example of MLA Citation:
Last name, First name. “Section of Website.” Title of the Website, Other Contributors, Version, Number, Name of publisher or sponsor, Date of publication, DOI or URL. Day Month Year of access. opt. URL.
Library of Congress. United States Government, 10 Feb 2022, www.loc.gov/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2023.
