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Think About It

Think About It. What things do you believe change over time? What things do you think remain the same over time?. What Causes Change. What causes change?. You grow up War or conflict Trade Exploration Colonization Curiosity Intelligence Optimism You need to make a change

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Think About It

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  1. Think About It • What things do you believe change over time? • What things do you think remain the same over time?

  2. What Causes Change

  3. What causes change? • You grow up • War or conflict • Trade • Exploration • Colonization • Curiosity • Intelligence • Optimism • You need to make a change • Cultural interaction etc.

  4. Is change good or bad?

  5. Types of Change Adaptation and Modification • ______________:a personal choice to change one self to fit with new environments or uses • _____________:to change something in your environments in order to improve it for your purposes.

  6. Modification and Infrastructure • Infrastructure- the basic ______________and _______________ structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise • Examples: ____________, roads, sewer systems, power lines • _______________is how we ______________

  7. Can Change be stopped? • What do you think and why? 2. Take 1 minute to write some of the ideas your classmates have shared.

  8. Costs & BenefitsREMEMBER • _______________are positive things that happen when change occurs. • _____________are the negative things that happen when change occurs.

  9. "The extraordinary greatness of the Roman Empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains.“ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities

  10. Roman Aqueductfound inFrance

  11. Roman Aqueducts • Built by the _____________________ • Supplied water to cities and industrial sites • Started several 1,000 years ago • Built throughout the Roman Empire • Most were below the ground. • Powered by _____________ • Discuss: How the aqueducts are an example of modification and adaptation?

  12. What were the costs and benefits for building the aqueducts? Costs: • _______________ • constantly needed to be ________________ • ____________at the time, • disrupted the environment • cities became very large • etc. Benefits: • ____________for the heavily populated areas • fresh clean water, disease free water • cities and industrial areas enlarged • new ____________caused other inventions to happen

  13. Roman Streets

  14. Roman Streets All _________lead to _________ • Begun in 312 BC • Huge network of roads that connected the Roman Empire • Used by _________________, merchants, government officials, technicians • Parts still exist and are in use today

  15. Cultural Borrowing • Taking ______________and practices from another ______________, ethic group or religion. • Examples: http://www.yourdictionary.com/cultural-borrowing

  16. How are roads and example of modification and cultural borrowing? Modification • changed the natural ___________ • changed the technique learned from other people • changed the way people ___________, traded, and supplied troops throughout the Roman Empire. Cultural Borrowing: • Romans borrowed the idea of road _____________from other groups • borrowed the idea of __________from ancient people • borrowed the items they were trading as they traveled on the roads

  17. Canals - Gondolas

  18. Canals of Venice • Begun in the 5th century • Venice is a city made of _______________ small islands • ________________canals are the streets of Venice • 400 pedestrian bridges • Use gondolas and vaporettos (water taxis) • The city is sinking! • Why has the location of Venice historically made it a hub for cultural diffusion?

  19. Why has the location of Venice historically made it a hub of cultural diffusion? • It became a major port for trade. Why? • Pilgrimages to the Holy Land were offered from Venice. Why?

  20. Polders

  21. Polders • Netherlands once called _______________ • Much of the Netherlands is ______________sea level • Dikes – canals – windmills (_______________) were built to control flooding • Idea began in ancient ___________________ • Begun in 1200s A.D. in Netherlands & Belgium • Dry land created by this system = polders • “God created the world, but the Dutch created _____________”

  22. Diagram of the Chunnel

  23. Chunnel Tunnel Station

  24. Chunnel • Cost = $21 billion • Begun in 1988 • Boring machines were as long as 2 football fields • Bored a distance of 250 ft. per day • Connects Flokestone, England to Calais, France • __________________miles long (23 under sea, 8 under land) • 131 ft. below the English Channel • It takes 30 minutes to cross the English Channel using the Chunnel Carries • The Channel Chunnel is used by both passengers and freight

  25. Costs & Benefits of change • What are positive things/benefits that can happen when change occurs? • What are negative things/costs that can happen when change occurs? • We call the positive and negative results from change: COSTS & BENEFITS

  26. Notebook Reflection Pg. 67 1. How does economic development lead to modifications of the physical environment? 2. Are these changes good or bad for the future of mankind? 3. Write a clear explanation predicting what changes you believe will happen in the next 50 years. How will life be different?

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