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How Does Culture Change

Chapter 4, Section 2

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Culture Change and Exchange

  • Culture changes over time

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  • The Agricultural Revolution
    • Humans shifted from gathering food to raising food.

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Culture Change and Exchange

  • Two ways that culture changes
    • Innovation
      • Something new introduced for the first time

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    • Diffusion
      • The spread of ideas, innovations, and patterns of behavior.

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Culture Change and Exchange

  • Innovation
    • Technology
      • People’s application of knowledge, tools, and inventions

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    • Domestication
      • To raise or tend plants or animals to be used by humans.

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Culture Change and Exchange

  • The agricultural revolution led to societies settling into a place.

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  • Prior to that, people were nomads.
    • No set home as they moved from place to place.

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Culture Change and Exchange

  • Diffusion
    • Can occur when one group of people comes in contact with another group.

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    • Traders
    • Missionaries
    • Invaders

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Culture Change and Exchange

  • Cultural Hearth
    • An areas with advanced culture from which ideas or technology spread.

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    • Today’s technologies make it easier to have the spread of ideas.
      • Satellites, the internet, mass communication.

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Homework

  • Read P. 97-100

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  • Answer #2-8

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  • Bring books next class period

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