Catalyst

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Catalyst

• Figurative (metaphor) a person or thing that
  causes a change
• Precipitate cause (an event or situation,
  typically one that is bad or undesirable) to
  happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely
• For example The incident precipitated a
  political crisis.
• Using catalyst in a sentence
• The governor's speech acted as a catalyst for
  debate.
• After you write the definition for catalyst,
  please answer the following question.
• What is the most significant catalyst of
  diffusion? And why?

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Culture Hearths

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Anticipatory

• What do we call the places where civilization
  first started? Where did we start to live in
  groups and share ideas?
• What are the elements of culture?

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Culture Hearths

• Culture Hearths- the site of innovation from
  which basic ideas, materials and technology
  originate and then diffuse to many cultures. Or
  in other words, it is the birthplace of
  civilization, a mother culture

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Culture Elements

• Language
• Technology
• Institutions-Economic systems, Education,
  Political Systems
• Ethnicity
• Religion

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Culture Hearths

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Nile River Valley

• Located in Northeastern Africa

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Nile River Valley

• Culture items Diffused The Pyramids, the 365
  day calendar

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Northern China

• Yangtze and Yellow Rivers

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Northern China

• Culture items diffused The first Clock,
  Compass, Gunpowder, Silk, Seismograph

Incense alarm clock
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Andean America

• Andes Mountains of South America

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Andean America

• Culture items diffused quipus-knotted strings
  for accounting. Panpipes-musical instrument.
  Freeze-drying food. Elaborate highway system and
  terraced farms.

Quipus
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Indus River Valley

• Present day Pakistan-India border region and
  Afghanistan, Iran too

Pakistan
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Indus River Valley

• Culture items diffused among the first to
  develop a uniform system of weights and
  measurements, the zero, decimal system, algebra.
  Dentist drills, buttons and chess.

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Mesoamerica

• Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador,
  Nicaragua

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Mesoamerica

• Culture items diffused Ulama a popular game
  using a rubber ball and no hands usually the
  hips, a 365 day calendar, the concept of zero

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Mesopotamia

• Location Current day Iraq

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Mesopotamia

• Culture items diffused The Wheel, the plow,
  written language

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Ganges Delta Valley

• Location India and Bangladesh

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Ganges Delta Valley

• Culture items diffused Tools and weapons made
  from iron

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Southeast Asia

• Location Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos

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Southeast Asia

• Culture items diffused architecture styles like
  in the temple of Angkor Wat and classical dance

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West Africa Sahel

• Location current day Mali

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West Africa Sahel

• Culture item diffused Farming and herding
  techniques

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West Africa Forest

• Location Current day west Africa

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West Africa Forest

• Culture item diffusedBows and arrows, weaving,
  counting systems, steel-making

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