Themes

Because people cannot have everything they want, they have to make choices.

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Production, Distribution, and Consumption

• Scarcity

• Conflict and Change

• Distribution of Power

People’s ideas and feelings influence their decisions.

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Production, Distribution, and Consumption

• Location

• Conflict and Change

• Distribution of Power

Moving to new places changes the people, land, and culture of the new place, as well as the place that was left.

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Movement and Migration

• Location

• Conflict and Change

• Distribution of Power

What people, groups, and institutions say and do can help or harm others whether they mean to or not.

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Movement and Migration

• Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

• Conflict and Change

• Distribution of Power

The ways people make, get, and use goods and services may be different from how people in other places make, get, and use goods and services.

• Production, Distribution, and Consumption

• Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Scarcity

• Movement and Migration

Where people live matters.

• Production, Distribution, and Consumption

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Movement and Migration

• Location

• Technological Innovation

Conflict causes change.

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Scarcity

• Technological Innovation

• Conflict and Change

• Distribution of Power

Laws and people’s beliefs help decide who gets to make choices in government.

• Distribution of Power

• Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

• Conflict and Change

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Movement and Migration

New technology has many types of different consequences, depending on how people use that technology.

• Scarcity

• Beliefs and Ideals

• Conflict and Change

• Technological Innovation

• Distribution of Power