The document provides an overview of key concepts in world history, geography, economics, and civics. It covers topics such as physical features that shaped human development, influential people and technological advances that spread ideas, different types of governments and citizen movements, important explorers and time periods like the Renaissance, causes of world wars, and post-war geopolitics. The document aims to outline essential background knowledge for understanding world events, societies, and global interconnectedness over time.

1. World History Knowledge Map
Geography:
1. A navigational river system provides a transportation route from place to place.
2. A physical map shows mountains, rivers, valleys, oceans, and other natural features.
3. A specialized map shows more specific information than a thematic map.
4. Grid points on maps and globes are standard methods for locating specific points or positions.
5. Historical and cultural maps show political boundaries, migration patterns, trade routes, and
colonization.
6. The development of human societies has been shaped by Earth’s physical features and
environmental influences.
7. Worldwide contributions and changes were made from notable influential people including:
Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Anwar Sadat, Margaret Thatcher, and
Mao Zedong.
8. Technological advances such as the printing press, telegraph, airplanes, and Internet have brought
assimilation and cultural exchange.
9. The push-pull factor involves a pushing force which acts to drive people away from a place and
the pull that draws them to a new location.
10. Global interdependence means that each country depends on other countries.
11. Globalization is the increasing interconnection of people and places as shown in free trade, free
flow capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets.
12. Infrastructure means the basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a
community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines,
and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons.
13. Population growth has impacted both renewable and nonrenewable resources.
14. Protecting our environment increases our changes for sustainable natural resources for future use
and enjoyment and improves our quality of life.
Economics:
15. Demand of goods changes over time based on the consumers needs.
16. Present economic choices create future environmental and political consequences.
17. Scarcity of resources necessitates trade-offs, and trade-offs result in an opportunity.
18. Markets on their own may have undesired outcomes or limited resources and governments and
nations must decide the method in which scarce resources are allocated.
19. Traditional economy in which resources are allocated by inheritance
20. Command economy in which supply and price are regulated by the government.
21. Market economy in which the production and distribution of goods and services take place
through free markets guided by a free price system.
22. Changes in productivity, such as new technologies and new organizational methods, have
impacted global living standards and economic strategies.
23. Technology, industrialization, competition, and wages improve the quality and quantity of human
capital and increase productivity.
24. Factors of production include human resources, capital resources, natural resources, and
entrepreneurship.
25. The stock market plays an important role in the economies of the United States and other
countries.
26. Inflation is the rise in the average price level of all goods and services produced in an economy
and impact the growth and prosperity of a nation.
27. Gross Domestic Product is used to measure a nation’s economic success and standard of living.
28. One disadvantage to global trade is that imports from foreign countries and endangers domestic
jobs and one advantage to global trade is that it promotes cooperation between countries and
results in stability and prosperity.
29. Exchange rates are how one countries dollar equals another country’s dollar.
30. Changes in money over time effects global trade.
31. When supply (amount of product) exceeds demand (how much people want the product), prices
fall, when demand exceeds supply, prices rise.

2. 32. The four types of market structures are monopolies, monopolistic competition, oligopolies, and
pure competition.
33. The marketing techniques of advertising and e-commerce have global effects.
Civics:
34. A dictatorship is a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a
small clique.
35. Democracy is a form of government by the people and a rule of the majority.
36. Monarchy is absolute rule by a single person.
37. Theocracy is a form of government in which a God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil
ruler.
38. Thomas Jefferson, Abdel Nasser, Juan Peron, and George Washington all had a role in changing
government.
39. The environmentalist movement, the human rights movement, and the feminist movement were all
major movements.
40. A Constitution is the system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature,
functions, and limits of a government of another institution.
41. National symbols show national pride and loyalty, and include flags, statues and monuments.
42. All citizens have rights and responsibilities.
43. Voting can be an important citizen right and responsibility.
44. Citizen participation can be an important influence on government.
45. Amnesty International, United Nations, and Doctors without Borders are world organizations
involved in citizen rights.
History:
46. Political cartoons have changed policy and public perception.
47. A timeline shows a span of chronological time during which events happen.
48. The Renaissance Period (French for rebirth) was a cultural movement that spanned the 14th
through the 17th Century and included writers and artists such as Machiavelli, Michelangelo,
Shakespeare, and Leonardo de Vinci.
49. New technologies such as astrolabes, caravels, and compasses made European exploration
possible.
50. Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco de Gama, and Vasco Nunez de Balboa were
important explorers during The Age of Exploration
51. The establishment of colonies caused the conquest of indigenous people in Africa, Asia, and the
New World.
52. Both the Triangular Trade and the Columbian Exchange consisted of the sharing back and forth of
the Eastern and Western Hemisphere's plants, animals, people, and pathogens
53. The Ottoman Empire was the predominant Muslim Empire from the 14th to the early 20th centuries.
54. Some major contributors of the Scientific Revolution were Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Nicholas
Copernicus, and Galileo Galilee.
55. England emerged as a world power during the Elizabethan Period.
56. Conflicts over policies in the Catholic Church led to the Protestant Reformation.
57. During the Protestant Reformation, reformers broke away to create new protestant churches.
58. The Counter Reformation brought many reforms within the Catholic Church, including Jesuit
priests whose missions extended the Catholic religion to the Western Hemisphere.
59. Religious conflicts in the Protestant and Counter Reformation led to violence in Europe that lasted
for more than 3 decades.
60. Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Baron de
Montesqueau influenced modern society and revolutionary movements.
61. Changing technology, mass production, and societal changes all contributed to the Industrial
Revolution.
62. Pandemics such as the bubonic plague, small pox, influenza, polio, and HIV-AIDS result in
societal changes.
63. Abolition, labor movements, suffrage, rise of socialism, and temperance were 19th century social
and political reform movements.

3. 64. European imperialism, or empire building, experienced a period of rapid expansion around the
globe during the last third of the 19th century due to its power, industrialization, and organizational
efficiency.
65. Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority by territorial conquest establishing
economic and political domination of other nations with an attitude of superiority and
subordination over foreign peoples.
66. The continent of Africa was dominated by imperialistic controls until the mid-20th century.
67. Some causes of World War I were Imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and formation of various
alliances
68. The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century and
resulted in the collapse of the Tsarist regime and the establishment of the world’s first communist
state.
69. Changing technology in weapons, medicine, transportation, and communication influenced World
War I and World War II.
70. Some causes of World War II were economic depression, fascism, racism, and the attack on Pearl
Harbor.
71. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, religious or national group.
72. Ethnic cleansing refers to various policies or practices aimed at the displacement of an ethnic
group from a particular territory in order to create a supposedly ethnically "pure" society.
73. Some consequences of World War II were threat of the atomic bomb, new world organizations,
strengthening of alliances, and the beginning of the “Cold War”.
74. The Battle of Britain, Battle of the Bulge, D-Day, Midway. Pearl Harbor, and Stalingrad were all
turning-point battles of World War II.
75. Some post World War II international organizations were NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the
United Nations.
76. Some post World War II conflicts were the Korean Conflict, Vietnam Conflict, Arab-Israeli
Conflict, and the Persian Gulf Conflict.
77. After World War II, communism expanded throughout Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Cuba, and
Latin America.
78. The “Cold War” was a period of history following WWII to 1990, when USA and USSR, along
with their allies, were in competition politically and economically, yet not engaged in direct
warfare.
79. The downfall of Communism was primarily due to the success of the economic ability of
capitalism over communism and lack of public support.
80. Technological advances transformed world economies in the late 20th century.
81. Artificial satellites, computers, new food technologies are some examples of the growth of
technology resulting from the space race.
82. Some causes and effects of terrorism include safety, security, economics, tourism, patriotism,
nationalism, and 9/11.