6th - SS Core Concepts 3.1 to 3.4 Flashcards
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Name some examples of cultural traits.
Language, laws, religion, values, food, clothing and other customs
Features that make up a culture?
Cultural traits
What are common cultural traits called?
Norms
What are some things that cane effect cultural traits?
Time and environment
How many different cultures and culture regions are on Earth?
Thousands
Cultural regions often different than what?
Political units
What area may a cultural region cover?
May cover an entire country, a country may have more than one cultural region or may extend beyond political boundaries.
What is an important part of every culture?
Religion
What does religion do for people?
- Answer questions about the meaning of life
2. Guide people in standards of acceptable behavior
Where did the world’s major religions begin?
Asia
Where did Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism developed?
India
Where did Judaism, Christianity, and Islam begin?
Southwest Asia
What are ways the cultural traits spread?
Settlement (explorers), trade, migration, communication and technology
What is a drawback of cultural change?
If customs change too quickly, people may feel that their culture is threaten. Some people worry that rapid communications is creating a new global culture that threatens diversity. They worry that we might end up with only a single world culture.
Is the way in which people use tools and machines?
Technology
What are also important parts of culture?
Science and technology
What did technological advances do to culture?
They changed culture.
Learning to grow crops and taming wild animals allowed people to rely on agriculture for food which let to people settling in one place which lead to development of cities which lead to laws and government.
When did people develop the technologies that used power-driven machinery?
Around 1800
