1. I NTRODUCTION TO H ISTORY

2. Define History: “A record of what human beings have done on earth” “An unending dialogue between the present and past”. Edward Hallet Carr

3. How do we find out what’s happened in history? Written Records: Laws Diaries Business records Documents Letters Books Speeches Movie, TV, Radio Scripts Artifacts Bones Fossils Decaying Ruins Stone monuments

6. Marion Romney refereed to learning about history as the Tragic cycle of civilization. A cycle propelled by anyone who seeks for power and gain. Was it not this (power and gain) that lead Cain to commit the first murder? We are living in the most exciting time of History. It is also the most challenging time in history. Cannon

7. Social Sciences Government- Study of Laws Economics- Study of the way people make a living. The production to goods and services and how there disrupted. Geography- Study of the earth the people their environment and their resources. History- Study of events and people of the past.

8. Behavioral Sciences Sociology- S tudy of how people live in communities and the kind of group they form. Psychology- The study of the mind and behavior Anthropology- Study of the origin of human beings and their cultural developments. Archaeology- Study of early human remains.

9. 5 Major Themes of Geography Location - Location - Where something is. Latitude: The lines on a map or globe measuring the distance North and South of the Equator. Longitude: Lines measuring the distance East and West. Place- Place- Physical and human characteristics of a specific location. Interactions between People and their Environment: Interactions between People and their Environment: How people have been effected by their environment and how they use it to help themselves. Movement- Movement- Why and how people move to search for a better food supply and living area. This helps us to understand the spread of diseases or air pollution and the introduction of products from one place to another. Regions- Regions- a area with specific characteristics i.e. physical- language- religion - economics and politics.

10. Why do we learn about History? So we don’t repeat ourselves. It gives us a picture of who we are and why we are that way. Tradition

11. MapsGlobes

12. Land masses Bodies of Water records of features landscape cities, and places

13. Globe The first Globe representing the earth: Was in 1492 in Nuremberg, Germany 995 **Man has developed many ways to show the curved earth on flat surface see page 995 in your textbook for Map projection**

14. H OW DO H ISTORIANS DETERMINE WHEN SOMETHING H APPENED ?

15. How do we determine events Past or Future? 10000 100 50 25 0 25 50 100 10000 __________________________________________ BCE AD Anno Domini In the Year of Our Lord

16. C ALENDARS Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Romans, Chinese, Jewish, Islam…… were all different.

17. O UR CALENDAR IS BASED ON : The earths rotation around the sun. We call this the:

18. I N 1582 P OPE G REGORY ORDERED CHANGES TO THE R OMAN C ALENDAR TO CORRECT ERRORS This calendar was been excepted or adopted through the world…. However, who do you think was the last country to adopt this calendar?