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Title: What is Culture?


1
What is Culture?
  • An Introduction to World History

2
How do you define culture?
  • Culture The way of life language, tools,
    skills, beliefs, and traditions that people
    develop and leave to their children.

3
Characteristics/Elements of Culture
Conflict
Environment
Social Organization
CULTURE
Technology
Economic Organization
Values/Religion
Modes of Expression
Politics/Law
4
Interaction Among Cultures
  • Culture Diffusion The spread of a peoples way
    of life, such as customs, beliefs, religions,
    language, government, and family structure.
  • Ethnocentrism To judge another culture based on
    the perspective of ones own culture. The belief
    that one's own race or ethnic group is the most
    important and that some or all aspects of its
    culture are superior to those of other groups.

5
Time Span of the PlanetBroken Down into a
Calendar Year
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Jun.
Jul.
Aug.
Sep.
Void of Life
Homo erectus 10-11 pm Dec. 31
Plant Life Very Primitive Animal Forms
6
Neolithic Revolution
  • Transition from Nomads to Farmers.
  • What is a Nomad?
  • Nomads Communities of people who move from
    place to place in search of food
  • a.k.a. (Hunter and Gatherers).
  • Nomads began to settle down in one location
    because they became farmers.

7
Settlement Begins to Occur
  • Development along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
  • Why would people settle near rivers?
  • Water supply.
  • The rivers would flood and leave behind silt.
    Silt is a rich substance left behind that is good
    for farming.

8
Early Farming Methods
  • Slash Burn A farming method in which people
    clear fields by cutting and burning trees and
    grasses the ashes of which serve to fertilize
    the soil.
  • Irrigation The bringing of water to crop fields
    by means of canals and ditches.

Picture Above Slash Burning still occurs in
parts of the world today.
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