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Processes of Change
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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 Change
World 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
Causes and Effects
Interrelationships
Patterns
Where are things?
Processes
What are the forces
causing them to be here?
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Causes/Factors
Underlying
Processes
Effects
•Changes caused by revolutions
& wars
•Factors that contributed to
the diffusion of ideas and
consequences
•Processes that affect
patterns of urbanization
Geography-History Links
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Four Questions…
What was the geographic context?
How did it change?
How did the geographic context
influence and shape events?
How did people perceive the world
then?
Geographic Context
Human characteristics
Population, ethnicity, age and class structure,
religious beliefs, what people ate, housing, who
worked and what did they do…
Environmental characteristics
Physical characteristics, site, climate, soils,
resources
Geographic Context
Human-environment relations
Nature of relations, environment able to
support population, ways people altered the
environment, resources, natural hazards
Spatial organization
Situation, 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
Interrelationships
Patterns
Processes
Context Effects
Every event in history occurred
within a geographic context
Environment offers humans a range of
opportunities and possibilities
Everyday conditions AND extraordinary
events
Perception
How 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
making
Diverse 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
Suggested Strategies
Help students to think geographically.
Space, location, & movement matter
Help students to see change.
Visualize change through images & maps
Help students consider how people saw
their world.
Literature, primary documents, newspaper
articles, personal accounts