Why Do Civilizations Start?

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Why Do Civilizations Start?
By Justin Sutton
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Topic Questions

• How can places be compared geographically?
• Why have different areas developed as they have?
• How does the environment shape people?
• Why do people work together?

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OVERVIEW

• Using the five themes of geography
• What characteristics the ancient civilizations
  shared?
• Could Mississippi have been a home of an ancient
  civilization?

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What were the Ancient Civilizations?
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The Five Themes of Geography
Location
Region
Place
Movement
Human Environment Interaction
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Location of Ancient Civilizations
Mesopotamia
China
Egypt
Indus River
Map Credit University of Texas Library
http//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
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Place

• How are these areas similar?
• Weathercheck it out for yourself
• Average weather in Egypt
• Average weather in Iraq
• Average weather in India
• Average weather in China

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Human Environment Interaction

• How did these people adapt?
• What was their greatest adaptation?

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Region

• What region describes these areas?
• Does region define any of the areas?

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Movement

• Who did these civilizations influence?
• Who influenced the ancient civilizations?
• How did their ideas travel?

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Time for higher order thinking!!!

• Given what you know
• Could Mississippi have been a cradle of
  civilization?
• What is another region that could have been a
  cradle of civilization?

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Lets Look at the Map
Why would the above line of latitude be marked?
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Lets Look at Place
Information from weather.com
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Human Environment Interaction
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Region

• Where is Mississippi?
• River area?
• Warm Climate?

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Movement

• Difficult to assessWhy?

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Could Mississippi have worked?
Based on location and place?
Based on HEI and region?
Based on movement?