Ethel Wood - Unit 1

Question 1

What is the ability to describe, analyze, and evaluate ways that historians divide history called?

Answer 1

Periodization

Question 2

What are events that change the course of history called?

Answer 2

Marker Events

Question 3

What is the point of view through lens of our own time and period called?

Answer 3

Cultural Perspective

Question 4

What divides the world into basic chunks of continents, based on physical geography and our perceptions on cultural differences?

Answer 4

Myth of Continents

Question 5

What is the study of population called?

Answer 5

Demography

Question 6

What do you call the permanent moves to new locations that occur on local, regional, and global levels?

Answer 6

Migrations

Question 7

What factor encourages people to move?

Answer 7

Push Factor

Question 8

What factor attracts them to a new region?

Answer 8

Pull Factor

Question 9

What are physical features that halt or slow migration from one place to another?

Answer 9

Intervening Obstacles

Question 10

What is the process when people move and spread their cultures to new areas?

Answer 10

Cultural Diffusion