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Processes of Change
What is this correlation all about?What are the links between geography and history?How can you help students master this material?
Site and Urbanization
Processes of ChangeWorld Geography 18 Culture.
(A) Describe the impact of general PROCESSES such as migration, war, trade, independent inventions, and diffusion of ideas and motivations on cultural change
World History 1 History.
(B) Identify CHANGES that resulted from important turning points in world history such as the development of farming… cities; the scientific,industrial, political revolutions; world wars…
Strategy
Identify the causes (such as migration, war, trade etc.) and analyze the effects (such as cultural change, the development of agriculture, urbanization etc.) of important turning points in world history.
Processes of Change
Patterns Processes
Interrelationships
Where are things? What are the forces causing them to be here?
Causes and Effects
Processes of Change
UnderlyingProcesses
Causes/Factors
Effects
•Changes caused by revolutions & wars•Factors that contributed to the diffusion of ideas and consequences•Processes that affect patterns of urbanization
Geography-History LinksFour Questions…
1. What was the geographic context?
2. How did it change?3. How did the geographic context
influence and shape events?4. How did people perceive the
world then?
Geographic ContextHuman characteristics
Population, ethnicity, age and class structure, religious beliefs, what people ate, housing, who worked and what did they do…
Environmental characteristicsPhysical characteristics, site, climate, soils, resources
Geographic ContextHuman-environment relations
Nature of relations, environment able to support population, ways people altered the environment, resources, natural hazards
Spatial organizationSituation, transportation, linkages to other places, barriers to communication/transport, arrangement & organization of towns
Change
Processes that drive change…Migration, cultural change (diffusion, acculturation, assimilation), colonization, frontier expansion, changes in technology, economic development, population growth, trade
Patterns Processes
Interrelationships
Context Effects
Every event in history occurred within a geographic context
Environment offers humans a range of opportunities and possibilitiesEveryday conditions AND extraordinary events
PerceptionHow did people understand and assess the physical and human characteristics of their world?
Beliefs and attitudes regarding the environment, migration, land use, rights and privileges etc.Perception, not reality, influences decision makingDiverse perspectives: competing points of view
Suggested Strategies
Help students to think geographically.
Space, location, & movement matter
Help students to see change.Visualize change through images & maps