Story only time will tell if it repeats itself.
Places and Region: Place describes the features that make a site unique. regionsareareasthat share common characteristics. A place for defined by its distinctive climate and plant life.
Physical Systems: • Natural changes
– How things like hurricanes, volcanoes, and glaciers shape and change the earth’s surface
• Communities of plant and animals
– depend on the one another and their surroundings for survival
Human Systems: Movement is how things move from place to place. (This can be movement of people, ideas and/or beliefs, and goods.) Describes how people have shaped our world.
Environment and Society: How humans effect the environment – Good effects- planting trees for oxygen
– Bad effects-pollution from industries
• How the environment effects human
– Good effects- growing crops on the side of the mountain – Bad effects- the weather effects the clothing and shelter
The uses of geography: • Understand the relationships among people, places, and environments over time
• Understand the past and prepare for the future
Thomas Paine – wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense," which argued for independence from Great Britain
The first principal of Mercantilism was that all the money and wealth in the world were relatively static. The second principal of Mercantilism was that a country's wealth could be based on their fossil fuels, and resources. The third principal of Mercantilism was the striving belief that exports needed to be higher than imports.
