Social Studies 1 Flashcards
Human-environment interaction
Involves consideration of how people rely on the environment
Five themes of Geography
Place(names of continents, countries, and even cities)
Location(requires knowledge of both absolute and relative location)
Absolute Location( is determined by longitude and latitude)
Relative Location(deals with the interactions that occur between and among places)
Movement and connection
Requires identifying how people are connected through different forms of transportation and communication networks and how those networks have changed
Understanding of theme of a Regions, Patterns, and process
Identifying climatic, economic, political, and cultural patterns within regions
Geologic Maps
Provide much info about earth and present a perfect opportunity to inter grate social studies and science
Topographical Map
Altitudes(heights above and below sea level) and landforms
Symbols on the map
Represent rivers, lakes, rapids and forests
Map scales
Allow your to determine distance
Cardinal Rose
Gives the cardinal direction North, South, East, and West
Meridians
Run from pole to pole
Anthropology
The study of human behavior in all places and at all times
Physical Anthropology
The study of biological, physiological, anatomical, and genetic characteristics of both ancient and modern human populations
Cultural Anthropology
The study of learned behavior in human societies
Politics, medicine, religion
Archaeology
The study of the cultures of prehistoric people
Ethnography
Is the systematic description of human society, usually based on first hand fieldwork
Ethnology
The interpretive explanation of human behavior, based on ethnography
Social Anthropology
The study of human groups, with particular emphasis on social structure(social relations, family dynamics)
Linguistics
The study of how language works as a medium of communication among humans
Paleolithic period or Old Stone Age
When people first appeared. 2.5million years ago 10,000 B.C.E
Mesolithic Period or Middle Stone Age
10,000 to 7000 B.C.E
Neolithic Perios or New Stonge age
4000 and 3000 B.C.E. Humans engaged in systematic agriculture and began domesticating animals
The Classical Age
Fifth Century B.C.E was the high point of Greek civilization
The Roman Empire
Octavian reigned (27 B.C.E-14 C.E.)
The Byzantine Empire
Emperor Theodosius 2 divided his empire between his two sons, one ruling the east and the other ruling the West
Islamic Civilization in the Middle Ages
Mohammed was born about 570 C.E.. In 630 C.E. He marched into Mecca
5pillars
Feudalism in Japan
Feudalism in Japan began with the arrival of mounted nomadic warriors from throughout Asia during Kofun Era
Chinese and Indian Empires
In the third century B.C.E. The Indian kingdoms fell under the Mauryan Empire. Ashoka the grandson of the founder of this empire, opened a new era in the cultural history of India by promulgating the Buddisht religion
Buddha
Disregarded the Vedic gods and the institutions of caste and had preached a relatively simple ethical religion that advocated two levels of aspiration
Confucius
Warfare between states and philosophical speculation created circumstances ripe for such teachings
Civilizations of the Americas
Early America were agricultural and the foremost civilization was the Mayan in Yucatan, Guatemala, and eastern Honduras
Europe in Antiquity
The Frankish Kingdom was the most important medieval Germanic state
Charles the great or Charlemagne
Founded Carolingian dynasty
Manorialism
Developed as an economic system in which large estates granted by the king to nobles, strove for self sufficiency
Gregory 1
Was the first member of monastic order to rise to the papacy
The Holy Roman Empire
Louis German became Holy Roman Emperor under Treaty of Verdum
Feudalism
Was the decentralized political system of personal ties and obligations that bound vassals to their lords
Magma Carta Libertatum
Established the principle of limited English monarchy
Scholasticism
Was effort to reconcile reason and faith and to instruct Christians on how make sense of pagan traditions
The Black Death
Conditions in Europe encouraged the quick spread of disease. Refuse, excrement, and dead animals filled the streets of the cities, which lacked any form of urban sanitation
The Reformation
Destroyed western europe’s religious unity and introduced new ideas about relationships among God, the individual, and society
The Thirty Years war
Between 1618 and 1648 the European powers fought a series of wars ended with Treaty of Westphalia
The Enlightenments Effect on Society
People were capable of governing themselves, either through a political or social contract forming the basis of society
The Fench Revolution
Increased criticism directed toward governmental inefficiency and corruption toward the privileged classes demonstrated the rising expectations of “enlightened” society in France
The Era of Napoleon
December 25, 1799
Basic Principles of Economy
The principle that regulate the production, distribution and consumption of resources in society
Theory of Supply and Demand
Prices vary based on balance between the availability of product or service at certain price (supply) and the desire of potential purchasers to pay that price (demand)
Goods and Services
Use of machines increase the availability of goods and services to the population, this kind of production can decrease the cost of producing goods and consequently. It’s price
Free Enterprise
Economic and political doctrine of capitalist system
Money and Banking
Promote fiscal stability and economic growth in the nation and to regulate inflation and deflation
Inflation and Deflation
Inflation reduces the purchasing power of money which effects the value of currency. Deflation is the opposite of inflation
Microeconomics
Focuses on problems specific to a household, firm, or industry rather than national or global issues
Macroeconomics
The study of economy as a whole
