PIECES Review

Resources are scarce, so societies create economic organizations to allocate-distribute- resources

• Culture

• Social

• Economy

• Environment

People living in groups have to get along with each other; societies create governments to regulate the interaction of people (laws)

• Innovation

• Culture

• Economy

• Political

Complex pattern of relationships- political, economic, and cultural- that bind people together

• Society

• Innovation

• Economy

• Political

Increased contact between human beings brings an understanding of different peoples and cultures; this causes change

• Culture

• Environment

• Economy

• Political

The need to make survival easier and understand the environment will lead to the development of new technologies

• Society

• Culture

• Innovation

• Political

Philosophy and the arts help us ask and answer who and what we are

• Political

• Economy

• Innovation

• Culture

Religious beliefs can define a group of people, belief systems can bring a civilization closer or divide them

• Society

• Culture

• Innovation

• Economy

Different geographic features influence the way societies develop, different styles of human society emerge

• Society

• Economy

• Environment

• Culture