History 8 Archaeology Concepts

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.