Time Capsule Discovering artifacts is a major part of learning how people and civilizations thrived in the past. In the future, our time period now will be apart of the past and people will be searching for artifacts to learn about how we live today. One way to make the search easier, and to share information about the ways we live, would be to make a time capsule and fill it with objects we use today. Some important things that I would put into a time capsule would be maps to show different places and landforms, a history textbook to give a deeper insight into the past, the latest census to show the population of the United States and the ethnic background of the population, money such as our coins and dollars to show our currency system, …show more content…
I think this would be an important thing to put into a time capsule because I know that over time, countries and landforms will change and people in the future will wonder what it used to be like. By putting a map into the time capsule to be found many years into the future, it will supply people with better insight into the boundaries of our countries, along with the natural landforms that we have such as major rivers, islands, lakes, volcanoes, mountains, and canyons. These maps can then be use to find more artifacts that may be buried. These maps may also end up leading to major discoveries such as the discovery that a specific place even existed, for instance, if an island like Japan or Hawaii were to degrade into the ocean. It could also lead to the discovery that a single form of land used to be two separated by an ocean, such as if Russia and Alaska were to join together. Putting maps into a time capsule would give information to future people about the different territories and landforms that are present …show more content…
The census would give information about the populations in the different states and cities, and also give information of what different ethnicities make up those populations. Putting the census into the time capsule would give information about the ethnic background of our country.
Over time the currency in the world will change, so I would put some United States money into the time capsule. I would put the different coins and dollars into the capsule so that when it is opened in the future, it would be known that we had a currency system. The money found in the capsule could also be used to find out more about the way we lived by the things on the money, such as the presidents’ and influential people's pictures, or the different monuments. Putting money into the time capsule would give people in the future a look into our currency
In Maps of Time David Christian provides a concise history of all that has ever been, and all that will ever be. Christian is writing in the historical approach he refers to as “big history.” Christian pleads the case for big history rather adroitly, providing the analogy that “no geographer would try to teach exclusively from street maps,” therefore Christian is attempting to the field of history with a world map with which to work. (3) Though a pulling away from a map obscures small details, streets dissolve and streams and creeks vanish, larger patterns emerge, continents take shape and vast oceans appear. This same principle applies to taking a grander view of history. In order to achieve what would appear to be a Sisyphean task: giving
In a world where geography only makes the headlines or points of coffee house discussion if a new study is released about how terrible students are at it, however, amazingly there ARE still students and people alike that simply love it and are thriving in their point of interest. Some stare at maps endlessly searching for things that most people would never even care to look at such as what makes this state similar with this state or why is the population more or less here. Some long to find and view the rarest maps available; others embrace the future by participating in an activity known as geocaching. Geocaching is when the participant visits special areas with “treasures” hidden using their GPS devices and smartphones. Some people even draw thousands of their own imaginary maps, highlighting details in worlds and countries they long to visit.
In the short story Incognita, Inc. by Harlan Ellison, we explore the idea of topography and how it serves as a map. The story mainly focuses a man named Charles Trimbach who works for a company known as Incognita Inc. which had been acquired by an enterprise called Worldspan. Charles Trimbach is sent to his hometown Chicago to close down a small map shop owned by his corporation. As Charles Trimbach, goes to talk to the owner about closing down his shop, he takes a trip down memory lane and remembers coming to this shop when he was younger looking for something he had lost, and the shop owner gave him a map that helped him find his lost item. Maps have been around for a long time. They have served as guidelines to the
It gives people an overview of a large subject with colors, shapes and images which help a lot in people’s memorizations. After having a knowledge bank, people are able to create possibilities and counterfactuals. “Once you represent spatial information in a map you can use that information much more flexibly and productively. One thing a map does is to let you make blueprints. A blueprint looks like a map, but instead of making the blueprint match the world, we change the world to match the blueprint. Once we know how to make spatial maps, we can also decide to make changes in the spatial layout of objects, including our own bodies, and predict the effects of those changes” (Gopnik 176). Constructing by images, colors and shapes, mental map can be easily and readily memorized. People can recall things faster when they using mental map than note-taking. Mental map help people always point the direction at the unknown city, help people have no problem in remembering where they park their car in the parking lot. Besides, mental map is the important key for people to generate efficient ideas and make decisions. “Information that assisted me in my goal attracted my attention, what did not was judge irrelevant (63). After brainstorming, people will structure the ideas to a mental map. They can scan it very fast and find the most efficient route or way. And other useless things might
Maps are used to show movement of the armies during the final battles of the Civil War, the layout of a city, or the route that someone takes over a course of time. There is one map in the novel on page 241, just after the beginning of the fourth part, that showed the position of Booth and Herold over time after the assassination. On the map, there are descriptions of major events as well. However, at the time that this map is placed in the story, nearly all of the events it described hadn’t happened yet. A reader who had not known all the events of his escape yet would be confused looking at the map, and when a reader finished the novel, they would have to go back to the beginning of the fourth part to look at the map. This is the only map or picture in the novel that could have been improved on. Perhaps O’Reilly could have included several maps throughout the course of his escape in the book, and the completed route at the very end. Besides this one flaw, the use of pictures and maps in the writing are very effective and help the novel
Most often, geography and history are relatively synonymous, because several locations have a resounding places in history. The main concepts of geography such as location, place, and regions are related with the major ideas of history such as time, period, and events. The relationship between history and geography is especially close because they represent two fundamental dimensions of the same phenomenon (Guide to teaching world history 2001-2004). Similarly, by studying the geography and history of Pike’s Peak, one can learn the effect of pike’s peak over Colorado history. The influence of pikes peak in history of Colorado
Until the 1950s, Atlases were mostly comprised of maps that simply show space and place. However in 1953, the World Geo-Graphic Atlas, published by Walter Paepcke’s Container Corporation of America (CCA) with Herbert Bayer, changed people’s notion of what maps look like and what information they contain. Bayer believed, that maps were “a record of time and perhaps even a tool of prognostication.” By the use of Isotypes (International System of Typographic Picture Education), Bayer created an atlas that is universal, therefore allowed viewers to understand complex data more clearly and easily.
Some believe that cultural artifacts should be returned to their origin and others believe that artifacts could help people learn about the world without traveling and could be safe from harmful thief's in museums. Even though people have different opinions on the topic of artifacts going to their original home, they should all know the other side of their believe. This is why I will give my opinion on cultural artifacts then I will give different counter arguments on my opinion.
History allows us to find how we fit into our homes, communities, and nations. It also gives us a common ideal; to know from where we came and from there, know where we are going. As individuals, we can also use history to understand the heart, value, and belief that caused our nation to become strong. It brings a people together, keeping them strong.
Historical geographer JB Harley wrote an essay on Map Deconstruction in 1989, in which Harley argues that a map is more than just a geographical representation of an area, his theory is that we need to look at a map not just as a geographical image but in its entire context. Harley points out that by an examination of the social structures that have influenced map making, that we may gain more knowledge about the world. The maps social construction is made from debate about what it should show. Harley broke away from the traditional argument about maps and examined the biases that govern the map and the map makers, by looking at what the maps included or excluded. Harley’s “basic argument within this essay is that we should encourage an epistemological shift in the way we interpret the nature of cartography.” Therefore Harley’s aim within his essay on ‘Deconstructing the Map’ was to break down the assumed ideas of a map being a purely scientific creation.
Such as why we have different traditions and how societies became to be etc. History tells us the origins of life. Time Travel However, history is much more than answering questions. Learning history in a way is like time traveling.
The Hereford World Map is the world’s oldest surviving map of the world; it was made in 1300, during the beginning of the Renaissance in Europe. There was a wider range of influences on mapping during the later medieval period. With an increase in exploration, Europe began to evolve into an international continent; widespread travel can be seen by the influences of the Islamic world on architecture. While map making in China had flourished in the 11th C, mapping was beginning to evolve in Europe. By around 1400 there was a peak in map making in Europe. There is evidence of the influence of Roman mapping on medieval maps in Europe. The Medieval world maps but together information from Roman sources to make the world maps in the middle ages known as the mappa mundi, meaning cloth of the world. These were cloth maps, and the name mappa mundi was widely used for them. These world maps were understood by historians as an attempt to show where countries were located, quite often they were not just geographical representations but they were also stories of the world. As knowledge of map making increased during the Renaissance, was a move for wider representations of information on maps. The map became a source of information on the animals and history of the different countries. This can be seen in The Hereford World Map, a map that gives a geometrical representation of the locations of the known countries of the world and also acted as an encyclopaedia of information on various types of animals and where in the world they came from.
There are numerous people in society who lack certain skills that they need for survival.
The claim being discussed here is that the only way a map or a way of representing things can be useful is if it simplifies the knowledge that the actual territory gives, that is, if it reduces the salient i...
Others have noted that we're all travelling forward in time (in fact, the theory relativity says that we are all travelling at the speed of light through spacetime) so I'll tackle the travelling-backward-in-time part of the question. And that breaks down into issues of whether backwards time travel is a theoretical possibility, and whether it's a practical one.