Social Studies skills: Difference between revisions - A+ Club Lesson Planner & Study Guide

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Note: change to separate category and entry for [[Geography]] or leave here as a skill and add new entry /category for [[Human Geography]]

===~~Isolation~~===

===Movement===

* ~~details~~

* geography shapes human interactions

** when people mix, exchange, interact, we call it "'''cultural diffusion"'''

** = the spread of ideas, languages, religions, values, cultral practices, technologies, disease, etc. through '''trade, migration and warfare'''

** see full section on Cultural Diffusion below

* '''geographic barriers to movement:'''

** inhibitors = less movement = less cultural diffusion

* types of barriers or inhibitors to movement:

** mountains, deserts, oceans & seas, crossing rivers, jungles, deserts, canyons, waterfalls (cataracts)

** long distances

** climate: extreme climates and differences in climate across regions = barrier to cultural diffusion

* '''geographic catalysts for movement:'''

* facilitators = more movement = more cultural diffusion

~~===Movement===~~

* facilitators = aids to movement

* ~~geographic barriers to movement~~ =

* types of facilitators to movement:

** inhibitors / barriers to movement

** valleys, going along rivers or coastlines, flat lands,

* ~~geographic catalysts for movement =~~

** facilitators of ~~movement~~

* examples:

** barriers: mountains, deserts, crossing rivers, jungles, deserts, canyons, waterfalls (cataracts), extreme climates

** distance = barrier to movement and cultural diffusion

** different climates = barrier to movement and cultural diffusion

* facilitators ~~/ aids~~ to movement

** ~~examples:~~ valleys, going along rivers, flat lands, ~~mild climates~~

** similar climate = aid to movement

** both:

** short distances

*** a river as "both a highway and a moat"

* geographic features that can act as both barriers to and facilitators of movement :

*** a coastline as both inhibitor and facilitator of movement

** rivers = "both a highway and a moat"

*** woods, lakes, and rivers as

** a coastline as both inhibitor and facilitator of movement

**** barriers during warm weather

** woods, lakes, and rivers as

**** and facilitators in cold weather (ice, lack of underbrush during winter, etc.)

*** barriers during warm weather

*** and facilitators in cold weather (ice, lack of underbrush during winter, etc.)

* examples

** Wallace line see [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Wallacea Wallacea]

** Wallace line see [[wikipedia:Wallacea|Wallacea]]

=== '''Isolation''' ===

* a state of geographic separation from other people and places

* isolation is caused by geographic barriers

* note that isolated areas may have isolated regions within themselves

* isolation creates regions

===Regions===

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==== Utopia paradox ====

* the idea that what happened in the past could or should have been different

* the fallacy occurs from transposing an historical ~~moment into the~~ present

* the fallacy occurs from transposing (switching upon) present-day outlook upon the past

** i.e. measuring or defining the past historical values, conditions and choices with present-day values, conditions and choices

** would these historical actors be satisfied with conditions of today?

** if so, what would they have done differently