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WRLD H 1.1-3
world history to 1500 unit 1.1-1.3
| What are the 5 themes of geography? | Location, Time, Place, Human Environment interaction, Movement, Region |
| Absolute Location | The precise location on the Earth Given in longitude and latitude ex: The University of Mary Washington is located at 38.3013° North Latitude and 77.4745° West Longitude |
| Relative Location | description using other known places ex: Fredericksburg, VA is Southwest of Washington D.C. Fredericksburg, VA is North of Chesterfield County. Fredericksburg, VA is approximately 6o miles North of Richmond |
| Place | Toponym (name), Site (the description of the features of the place), Situation (The environmental conditions of the place ) |
| Human-Environment Interaction | Dependency, Adaptation, Modification |
| Dependency | How human are dependent on the planet: ex: We are dependent on the sun to warm the Earth Farmers are dependent on the rains for their crops Ski Resorts are dependent on snow for their business |
| Adaptation | How humans modify themselves, their lifestyles and their behavior to live in a new environment with new challenges ex: In the winter we wear jackets, hats, and gloves, build fires In the summer we wear T-shirts, shorts, go swimming |
| Modification | The changing of the environment for comfortable living ex: We built dams for water storage and use We have AC for the summer We have heaters for the winter We built roads for easier travel We built airplanes for quicker travel |
| Movement | refers to the translocation of human beings, their goods, and their ideas from one end of the planet to another ex: The movement of people around the world through immigration and emigration The movement of goods through trade |
| Artifacts | Remains such as tools, jewelry, other human made objects. Give hints as to how people dressed, how they worked, and worshiped NOT BONE |
| Culture | People's unique way of life |
| Fossils | fragments of skull, other bones, teeth BONE |
| Carbon Dating | telling the age of something by carbon ratio |
| ANTHROPology | the study of humans and human behavior and societies in the past and the present |
| ARCHAEology | the study of human history and prehistory through the excavations of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains archaeologists are scientists who excavate and study |
| A.D. or C. E. | anno domini Latin for “in the year of the Lord”; referring to the birth Common Era |
| B.C. or B.C.E | Before Christ or Before Common Era |
| Australopithecines | Discovered in 1978 by Mary Leakey who found prehistoric footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania |
| Hominid | Human and other great apes that walk upright Estimated that man was walking upright 3.6 Million years ago |
| Lucy in the sky | Donald Johanson was exploring sites in Ethiopia in 1974: found a complete female skeleton Lucy lived about 3.5 million years ago. Oldest hominid known to date |
| Stone Age | The prehistoric period where the achievement of inventing tools, mastery over fire, and development of language were accomplished Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age |
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