B)+5+Themes+of+Geography

**Geography is the study of the world and everything on it...** = =

**There are 5 basic themes that geographers use to organize their studies of the earth:**
**P** lace - Physical or Human characteristics **R** egion - Common or shared features of an area **I** nteraction (Human-Environment) - how we adapt to, depend on or modify our environment **L** ocation - Absolute or Relative **M** ovement - of People, Goods or Ideas

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[|Review Materials for 5 Themes]


 * [|If the world only had 100 people there would be....] **

Why is it so difficult to create an accurate map of the earth?





[|Review Geographic Skills]

**How can historians use the 5 Themes to understand** **the way in which early civilisations developed?** =//**How has geography shaped history?...................**// =

//Guns, Germs and Steel// by Jared Diamond.
The story of how Guns, Germs & Steel have shaped the history of the 13,000 years. Author and scholar Jared Diamond tries to answer perhaps the most fundamental question of world history: why are some civilisations conquered and others conquerors? In this episode //Out of Eden// Diamond gathers evidence from Papua new Guinea to the Middle East supports Diamond's theory that a society's development may have had less to do with skill or ingenuity, than with an ability to raise high-protein grains and domesticated livestock. He suggests that successful farming gave rise to an explosion of sophisticated civilisations, from the Fertile Crescent to the New World.

[|Guns, Germs & Steel Episode 1]









[|How Hunter-Gatherer Societies Adapted to their environment]

[|Becoming Farmers]

[|Settled communities]

[|Blockbuster Game for Themes & GGS]

[|Early Man Time Periods]

Modern historians often use the terms BCE (Before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era) instead of BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini).