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Nomads |
People who move from place to place in search of food and good areas to grow crops |
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Archaeologist |
Scientists who study objects left by early people |
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Capital |
Money that can be invested in business ventures for the purpose of making profit |
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Urbanization |
The growth of cities |
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Westernization |
Adoption of western culture (Europeans) |
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Artisans |
Skilled craftsmen |
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Entrepreneurs |
People who risked their money to set up businesses in order to make a profit, financed theres inventions |
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Civilization |
Highly organized group of people with their own language and ways of living |
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Nationalism |
Pride and loyalty to one's country |
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Modernization |
Changes in a nation that enable it to set up a stable government and produce a high level of goods and services |
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Results of Industrialization in Europe |
- More people moved to cities to work in factories |
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Nationalism |
Pride in and loyalty to ones country |
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Developing Nations - goals, and the role that economic dependence plays |
• goal is to moderinize. |
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Farming - Where did it develop? |
Fertile Crescent |
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Racism |
The belief that one racial group is naturally superior to another |
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Stone Age Nomads |
With better tools and knowledge, Stone Age people were able to hunt larger animals such as mammoths and bison |
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Agricultural Revolution |
Stone age people learned to farm, domesticate, & tame animals |
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Imperialism |
The control by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country of region |
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Economic Diversity |
Production of a variety of goods, services, and crops |
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Debt Crisis |
The inability of many nations to repay their loans |
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Modernization |
Making a countries government and economy more current. (Attempt to raise a nations stability and standard of living) |
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Approximately how many ice ages have there been? |
17 |
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What has been man's greatest revolution? |
Agricultural Revolution |
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When did the age of metal begin |
6,500 years ago |
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Where was wheat first cultivated and harvested? |
East Iraq |
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Where is the geographic origin of the human race? |
Africa |
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Technology |
Skills and tools people use |
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Diffusion - what is it? how does it happen? |
The movement of customs or ideas from one place to another |
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Exports |
Goods sent to markets outside a country |
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Extended family |
Several generations living in one household (grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins) |
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Interdependence |
Mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge, from other parts of the world |
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Location |
Position on the earth's surface |
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Monotheism |
worship of one god |
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Imports |
Goods brought into a country |
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Law |
Rules of which society should obey |
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Mixed Economy |
Individuals make some economic decisions and government makes the others |
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Traditional Economy |
People produce most of what they need to survive. |
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Ethnocentrism |
Judge other cultures by the standards of your own culture |
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Physical Region - what is it? example? |
Area with one or more characteristics or features which makes it different from surrounding areas |
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Family - what is the importance of the role of the family? |
Teaches each new generation a cultures beliefs and ideas |
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Market |
Economic system in which individuals make the basic economic decisions about buying and selling goods and services |
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Prime Meridian |
Imaginary line that divides the earth into eastern & western hemispheres |
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Equator |
Divides the earth into two halves, called hemispheres |
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Hemisphere |
north, south, east, west |
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Why do cultures change? What is the rate of culture? |
Technology, new ideas, and change in environment |
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Why are groups formed? |
Age, common interests, and stratification (social classes) |
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Identify the four types of Map Projections |
• Mercator |
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Culture |
All the things that make up a people's entire way of life |
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Dictatorship |
A ruler or group holds power by force |
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Republic |
The people choose the leaders who represent them |
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5 themes geographers developed |
1. Location |
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Nuclear Family |
Made up of a mother, father, & children. Doesn't need to be large or perform tasks. Buy what they need with the money they earn |
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Latitude |
Distance north or south of the equator |
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Longitude |
Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian |
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Geography |
Study of people, their environment, and their resources |
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Command Economy |
Government controls what and how goods are produced |
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Market Economy |
People buy and cell goods and services |
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Sub Culture |
the group of people who live within one culture but have their own customs, values, and beliefs (the Amish) |
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Parallel |
Another name for a line of latitude |
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Degrees |
How latitude and longitude is measured |
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Matrilineal Kinship |
Decent traced through female's side of the family |
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Polygamy |
More than one wife |
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Monogamy |
One wife |
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Patrilineal Kinship |
Descent traced through males side of the family |
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Matriarchal |
Eldest female in the family had the most authority |
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Patriarchal |
Eldest male in the family has the most authority |
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Polytheism |
Belief in many gods |
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Class system |
Some advancement is possible (based on wealth) |
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Caste System |
No advancement is possible (based on religion) |
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Lines of Latitude help to navigate around the globe. Why are they so significant? |
They can tell us where exactly we are on earth. They also reflect the changing angle of the sun in repsect to the earth. This determines day length, seasonality, and kind of climate. |
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True or False, Plants and animals, which thrive at a given latitude, will thrive at the same Latitude anywhere else on the planet. Explain: |
TRUE: if there is an easy east/west overland… |
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True or False, It is east for plants and animals that thrive at one Latitude to survive at dramatically different Latitudes. Explain: |
False: sucessful migration north or south is very rare, because moving throught different latitude zones means moving through dramatically different climates, day lengths and environmental conditions. |
