Unit 3 - Culture
THREE BIG QUESTIONS
1. How does where people
live and what resources
they have access to
impact their cultural
practices?
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2. How does the
interaction of people
contribute to the spread
of cultural practices?
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3. How and why do cultural
ideas, practices, and
innovations change or
disappear over time?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Focus on understanding these throughout the unit. At the end, if you turn it into a question, you can try and answer it as a review.
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Define the characteristics, attitudes, and traits that influence geographers when they study culture.
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Describe the characteristics of cultural landscapes.
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Explain how landscape features and land and resource use reflect cultural beliefs and identities.
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Explain patterns and landscapes of language, religion, ethnicity, and gender.
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Define the types of diffusion.
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Explain how historical processes impact current cultural patterns.
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Explain how historical processes impact current cultural patterns.
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Explain what factors lead to the diffusion of universalizing and ethnic religions.
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Explain how the process of diffusion results in changes to the cultural landscape.
UNIT 2 RESOURCES
Access class notes, readings, and activities here.
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November 21st