1. Processes of Change
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2. 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

3. Processes of Change
World Geography 18 World History 1
Culture. History.
(A) Describe the impact (B) Identify CHANGES
of general that resulted from
PROCESSES such as important turning
migration, war, trade, points in world history
independent such as the
inventions, and development of
diffusion of ideas and farming… cities; the
motivations on cultural scientific,industrial,
change political revolutions;
world wars…

4. 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.

5. Processes of Change
Causes and Effects
Interrelationships
Patterns Processes
Where are things? What are the forces
causing them to be here?

6. Processes of Change
•Changes caused by revolutions
Causes/Factors & wars
•Factors that contributed to
the diffusion of ideas and
consequences
Underlying •Processes that affect
Processes patterns of urbanization
Effects

7. Geography-History Links
Four 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?

8. Geographic Context
Human characteristics
Population, ethnicity, age and class structure,
religious beliefs, what people ate, housing, who
worked and what did they do…
Environmental characteristics
Physical characteristics, site, climate, soils,
resources

9. Geographic Context
Human-environment relations
Nature of relations, environment able to
support population, ways people altered the
environment, resources, natural hazards
Spatial organization
Situation, transportation, linkages to other
places, barriers to communication/transport,
arrangement & organization of towns

10. Change
Processes that drive change…
Migration, cultural change (diffusion,
acculturation, assimilation), colonization,
frontier expansion, changes in technology,
economic development, population growth, trade
Interrelationships
Patterns Processes

11. Context Effects
Every event in history occurred
within a geographic context
Environment offers humans a range of
opportunities and possibilities
Everyday conditions AND extraordinary
events

12. Perception
How 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
making
Diverse perspectives: competing points of view

13. Suggested Strategies
Help students to think geographically.
Space, location, & movement matter
Help students to see change.
Visualize change through images & maps

19. Suggested Strategies
Help 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