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 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

Suggested StrategiesHelp 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