| A | B |
|---|
| culture | total way of life of a people |
| civilization | characterized by organized religions, social classes, cities, public works, art & architecture, writing |
| geography | physical features of the land and resources available to people |
| political science | concerned with government |
| primary source | a first hand account; someones own words like a diary or journal entry, a speech, a document |
| history | studies the past using written records |
| Themes of Geography | movement, region, location, interaction, place |
| latitude and longitude | used to determine exact location |
| archeologist | studies history using things found in digs; artifacts |
| standard time zones | the world is divided into 24 of these; time changes as you pass through the zones |
| landbridge | believed that early man crossed over this to arrive in North and South Americas |
| Beringia | name given to the Landbridge theory |
| latitude lines | lines that run east and west on a map |
| longitude lines | lines that run north and south on a map |
| Prime Meridian | found at Greenwich, England; 0 degrees longitude |
| Equator | 0 degrees latitude |
| Interaction | the theme of geography that shows how man ADAPTS or CHANGES his environment to meet his survival needs |
| Relative Location | tells about one place in RELATION to another using a dircection word in the middle |
| economy | concerned with money issues; such as imports, exports, etc. |
| reasons to settle near water | for crops, animals, transporation and communication |
| Iroquois Confederacy | early form of representative government |
| League of Five Nations | another name for the Iroquois Confederacy |
| Great Law of Peace | written set of laws for Iroquois |
| longhouse | type of home Iroquois inhabited |
| Mexico and Central America | location of Aztec and Maya civilizations |
| Peru | location of Inca |
| evidence of advanced civilization | stone temples, concept of zero, brain surgery, calendar |
| bias | slanted point of view based on life experience |
| perspective | another word for point of view; important to determine when reading primary sources |
