BA1001: Time, Truth, and the Human Condition Guide: Getting Started

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• Concept 1: Human, society, civilisation, population, culture
• Concept 2: Tropical, Pacific, South East Asia, specific countries
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. mass tourism, rising sea levels, health

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• (society OR culture) AND Bali AND "religious beliefs"
• population AND tropics AND megacities
• society AND "South East Asia" AND food

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• Concept 1: Fossils, bone, shells, petrification
• Concept 2: Tropical, Pacific, South East Asia, specific countries/locations
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. human migration, tool development, climate change

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• Fossil AND "faunal collapse" AND Melanesia
• "Shell midden" AND (aboriginal OR indigenous OR "torres strait") AND "Cape York" AND archaeology
• Fossils AND looting AND heritage AND India

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• Concept 1: Carvings, petroglyphs, clay tablets
• Concept 2: Proto-writing, ideographic symbols, mnemonic symbols
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. trade, communications, religious practices

Build your search, e.g.:

• symbols AND "cave art" AND hunting
• prehistory AND humans AND symbols AND identity
• "clay tablets" AND trade AND "writing system"

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• Concept 1: language, identity, community
• Concept 2: Tropical, Pacific, South East Asia, specific countries
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. texting, Indigenous languages, Pidgin/Creole

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• Singlish AND culture AND Singapore
• English AND trade AND change AND Indonesia
• New Caledonia AND French AND identity

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Suggested search keywords:

• Concept 1: Factories, mechanisation, electricity
• Concept 2: Europe, United Kingcom, specific countries
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. social movements, health, transport hubs

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• "industrial revolution" AND (steam OR electricity) AND industr*
• "industrial revolution" AND "United States" AND abolition
• "industrial revolution" AND England AND "child labour laws"

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Suggested search keywords:

• Concept 1: Voice, decision-making, engagement, consultation
• Concept 2: Maori, First Australians, specific countries
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. government programs, native title, ways of knowing

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• "torres strait islanders" AND (sovereignty OR self-determination)
• Indigenous AND (stories OR yarning) AND Australia
• "Self determination" AND decolonisation AND Pacific

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Suggested search keywords:

• Concept 1: Publishers, libraries, monasteries
• Concept 2: Paper, block printing, metal type
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. literacy, affordability, gender

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• "printing press" AND education AND "middle class"
• "Medieval monastaries" AND preservation AND "ancient literature"
• recordkeeping AND "writing systems" AND development

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Suggested search keywords:

• Concept 1: Genre, aesthetics, media
• Concept 2: Tropical, Pacific, South East Asia, specific countries
• Concept 3: What will be your focus for this topic, e.g. placemaking, exhibitions, reappropriation

Build your search, e.g.:

• Pacific AND "climate change" AND arts AND education
• "Solomon Islands" AND art AND trade
• Ache AND reconstruction AND "art therapy"