Toward Civilisation.pptVIP

Understanding Our Past Geography and History Geography is the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them. History uses written evidence to tell us how people lived in the past. The Five Themes of Geography Anthropologists Archaeologists How Do Historians Reconstruct the Past? Historians rely primarily on written evidence to determine how people lived in the past. Recorded history began about 5,000 years ago, when people began to keep written records. Historians are like detectives Sometimes they come to different conclusions. Section 1 Assessment Which