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Culture

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Knowledge, attitudes, behaviors shared over generations

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Society

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a group that shares geographic region, identity, and culture

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Ethnic Group

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Shares languages, customs, and common heritage

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Innovation

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Creating something new with existing resources

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Diffusion

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Spread of ideas, inventions, patterns of behavior

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Cultural Hearth

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Site of innovation; origin of cultural diffusion

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Acculturation

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Society changes because it accepts innovation

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Importance of Language

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-Enables people to communicate within a culture
-Reflects aspects of all culture

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Language Identity

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-helps establish cultural identity, unity
-can also divide people, cause conflict

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Language Families

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-between 3,000-6,000 languages spoken worldwide
-similar languages belong to same language family

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Dialect

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a version of languages, ex. southern drawl

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Language Diffusion

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languages can spread via trade routes, migration

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Religion

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belief in supernatural power that made, maintains universe

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monotheistic

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one god

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polytheistic

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many gods

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animalistic/traditional

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divine forces of nature

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Spread of religion

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spreads through diffusion and conversion

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Conversion

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some religions try to recruit others to their faith

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Judaism

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monotheistic; Torah; Jews; 3,200 years ago

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Christianity

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evolved from Judaism; Jesus Christ; largest religion; Bible

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Islam

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monotheistic; based on teachings of Prophets Muhammad; followers called Muslims; worship Allah; Holy book called the Qur’an

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Hinduism

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polytheistic; evolved in India around 5,000 years ago; caste systems

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Buddhism

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-offshoot of Hinduism; evolved around 563 B.C. in India
-Founder Siddhartha Gautama, called The Buddha, or Enlightened One
-Rejects Hindu castes; seeks enlightened spiritual state, or nirvana

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Other Asian practices

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Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism

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Creative Cultural Expressions

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  • performing arts: music, dance, theater, film
  • visual arts: architecture, painting, sculpture, textiles
    -oral and written literature: poems, folk tales, stories

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