Unit 1 Tech And Envir Transformations Intro

Question 1

Demography

Answer 1

Describes a people or population by spatial organization- location of people, events, places, and connections between places and landscapes

Question 2

Intervening obstacles

Answer 2

Physical features of the geography or landscape that slow or stop people from migrating from one place to another.

Question 3

“Marker events”

Answer 3

Events that change the course of history- difficult to identify accurately in Paleolithic times through early civilizations- 8000 bce- 600 bce because interactions between human groups are limited so change in locations happens at different times.

Question 4

Technological and environmental transformations time period.

Answer 4

Agricultural development and early Ag communities (8000 bce -3500 bce.
Earliest civilizations (3500 bce- 600 bce).

Question 5

Migrations

Answer 5

Local, regional, and global permanent moves of a population to new locations. Many reasons, most voluntary migrations have economic reasons.

Question 6

The Myth of the Continents

Answer 6

Book by Martin W Lewis and Karen E Wigen that says looking at our common notions, or “frameworks”- like the spatial assumption that the earth land masses should be divided into continents- is important to how we perceive human community and history- is not complex enough to develop a sophisticated geographical understanding.

Question 7

Periodization

Answer 7

Division of history into time periods

Question 8

Perspective

Answer 8

Point of view

Question 9

Push and pull factors

Answer 9

Factors that affect migration- push factor encourages people to migrate to another location from their current location, and a pull factor attracts migrating people’s to a new location.

Question 10

Cultural diffusion

Answer 10

Spread of cultures with population movement across new areas- ex. Innovations, technology, religion, language, food/clothing styles, disease.