Social Studies 1

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Human-environment interaction

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Involves consideration of how people rely on the environment

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Five themes of Geography

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Place(names of continents, countries, and even cities)
Location(requires knowledge of both absolute and relative location)
Absolute Location( is determined by longitude and latitude)
Relative Location(deals with the interactions that occur between and among places)

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Movement and connection

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Requires identifying how people are connected through different forms of transportation and communication networks and how those networks have changed

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Understanding of theme of a Regions, Patterns, and process

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Identifying climatic, economic, political, and cultural patterns within regions

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Geologic Maps

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Provide much info about earth and present a perfect opportunity to inter grate social studies and science

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Topographical Map

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Altitudes(heights above and below sea level) and landforms

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Symbols on the map

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Represent rivers, lakes, rapids and forests

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Map scales

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Allow your to determine distance

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Cardinal Rose

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Gives the cardinal direction North, South, East, and West

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Meridians

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Run from pole to pole

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Anthropology

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The study of human behavior in all places and at all times

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Physical Anthropology

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The study of biological, physiological, anatomical, and genetic characteristics of both ancient and modern human populations

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Cultural Anthropology

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The study of learned behavior in human societies

Politics, medicine, religion

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Archaeology

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The study of the cultures of prehistoric people

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Ethnography

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Is the systematic description of human society, usually based on first hand fieldwork

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Ethnology

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The interpretive explanation of human behavior, based on ethnography

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Social Anthropology

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The study of human groups, with particular emphasis on social structure(social relations, family dynamics)

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Linguistics

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The study of how language works as a medium of communication among humans

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Paleolithic period or Old Stone Age

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When people first appeared. 2.5million years ago 10,000 B.C.E

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Mesolithic Period or Middle Stone Age

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10,000 to 7000 B.C.E

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Neolithic Perios or New Stonge age

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4000 and 3000 B.C.E. Humans engaged in systematic agriculture and began domesticating animals

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The Classical Age

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Fifth Century B.C.E was the high point of Greek civilization

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The Roman Empire

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Octavian reigned (27 B.C.E-14 C.E.)

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The Byzantine Empire

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Emperor Theodosius 2 divided his empire between his two sons, one ruling the east and the other ruling the West

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Islamic Civilization in the Middle Ages

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Mohammed was born about 570 C.E.. In 630 C.E. He marched into Mecca 5pillars

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Feudalism in Japan

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Feudalism in Japan began with the arrival of mounted nomadic warriors from throughout Asia during Kofun Era

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Chinese and Indian Empires

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In the third century B.C.E. The Indian kingdoms fell under the Mauryan Empire. Ashoka the grandson of the founder of this empire, opened a new era in the cultural history of India by promulgating the Buddisht religion

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Buddha

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Disregarded the Vedic gods and the institutions of caste and had preached a relatively simple ethical religion that advocated two levels of aspiration

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Confucius

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Warfare between states and philosophical speculation created circumstances ripe for such teachings

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Civilizations of the Americas

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Early America were agricultural and the foremost civilization was the Mayan in Yucatan, Guatemala, and eastern Honduras

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Europe in Antiquity

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The Frankish Kingdom was the most important medieval Germanic state

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Charles the great or Charlemagne

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Founded Carolingian dynasty

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Manorialism

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Developed as an economic system in which large estates granted by the king to nobles, strove for self sufficiency

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Gregory 1

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Was the first member of monastic order to rise to the papacy

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The Holy Roman Empire

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Louis German became Holy Roman Emperor under Treaty of Verdum

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Feudalism

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Was the decentralized political system of personal ties and obligations that bound vassals to their lords

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Magma Carta Libertatum

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Established the principle of limited English monarchy

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Scholasticism

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Was effort to reconcile reason and faith and to instruct Christians on how make sense of pagan traditions

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The Black Death

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Conditions in Europe encouraged the quick spread of disease. Refuse, excrement, and dead animals filled the streets of the cities, which lacked any form of urban sanitation

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The Reformation

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Destroyed western europe's religious unity and introduced new ideas about relationships among God, the individual, and society

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The Thirty Years war

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Between 1618 and 1648 the European powers fought a series of wars ended with Treaty of Westphalia

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The Enlightenments Effect on Society

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People were capable of governing themselves, either through a political or social contract forming the basis of society

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The Fench Revolution

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Increased criticism directed toward governmental inefficiency and corruption toward the privileged classes demonstrated the rising expectations of "enlightened" society in France

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The Era of Napoleon

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December 25, 1799

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Basic Principles of Economy

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The principle that regulate the production, distribution and consumption of resources in society

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Theory of Supply and Demand

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Prices vary based on balance between the availability of product or service at certain price (supply) and the desire of potential purchasers to pay that price (demand)

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Goods and Services

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Use of machines increase the availability of goods and services to the population, this kind of production can decrease the cost of producing goods and consequently. It's price

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Free Enterprise

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Economic and political doctrine of capitalist system

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Money and Banking

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Promote fiscal stability and economic growth in the nation and to regulate inflation and deflation

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Inflation and Deflation

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Inflation reduces the purchasing power of money which effects the value of currency. Deflation is the opposite of inflation

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Microeconomics

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Focuses on problems specific to a household, firm, or industry rather than national or global issues

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Macroeconomics

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The study of economy as a whole