Difference between revisions of "History 8 Archaeology Concepts"

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Concepts

• What is geographic imagination and why is important?
• Explain the four essential rules for an explanation to be considered scientific.

• Why can there be exceptions to the essential rules? Explain.

• Know the funnel of certainity and be able to explain it.

• Give and define the characteristics of a good theory.

• Define catastrophism

• ID James Hutton

• ID Charles Lyell

• Define, explain and give an example of each.
  • Uniformitariansim-

• • Superposition

       Three Age Theory
       Plutarch: Great Men and their Character
       Toynbee:  Challenge and Response
       Malthus Theory of  Population
       Darwin:  Survival of the Fittest
       Marx:  Material Dialectic
       Turner: Geography and the Frontier
       Radicals:  History is the Story of Who Won
       Boorstin:  The Unexpected
       Cultural Relativism
   Why is history considered to be an interpretation of facts and events?

• Post notes from video on Geographic Imagination

Post notes from Day the Universe Changed.