Cultural Diffusion
Patriarchy & Writing
Asian Religions
Primary Sources
General History
100
Possibly the most intentionally violent way to diffuse culture.
What is war / conquest?
100
The change that begins the development of patriarchy.
What is the development of agriculture / the switch from hunter-gatherer to agriculture?
100
The major religion founded in China.
What is Confucianism?
100
This primary source is an example of bronze in China. (Use an example from last unit's gallery walk)
What are the mirror, owl cup, etc.
100
In Renaissance Europe (1,300 --> 1,600 CE), people believed this animal’s horn could cure poison - though it was usually just a narwhal tusk.
What is a unicorn?
200
The form of cultural diffusion that happens while you are on the road, going from town to town, trying to earn money / more products.
What is trade?
200
The name of the script written on the Oracles Bones.
What is the Shang Script?
200
The religious social hierarchy of the Hindu religion.
What is the Caste System?
200
This is a primary source that may prove Mesopotamian technology diffused to China and improved their transportation.
What is the Terracotta Chariot with wheels
200
During the Middle Ages (500 --> 1,500 CE), books were so valuable that this precaution was taken to ensure their security.
What is they were chained to library desks?
300
The form of cultural diffusions that happens because of a deep devotion or faith.
What is a religious mission?
300
This part of agriculture allowed women to have more children closer together instead of waiting until the previous child was old enough to walk.
What is a sedentary lifestyle / surplus of food?
300
The two religions that each have a single founder.
What are Buddhism and Confucianism?
300
The primary source is an example of silk being diffused out of China and to Egypt.
What are silk squares on linen?
300
True or False: The White house has never been attacked by a foreign nation.
False! During the war of 1812, the British successfully invaded Washington and burned the White House.
400
The form of cultural diffusion does not require you to talk to anyone.
What is writing?
400
The civilization that we found a number of stamp seals in that is not the Indus River Valley.
What is Mesopotamia?
400
This "religion" cares more about how you treat people while alive than it focuses on gods / the afterlife.
What is Confucianism?
400
These are primary source examples of the diffusion of Buddhism out of India.
What are the statues of Buddha from China and Pakistan?
400
What famous painter painted this?
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
500
The form of cultural diffusion that can be caused by tragedy or opportunity.
What is migration?
500
Options for what the Indus Script might actually be.
What are symbols, a language, or a "packaging slip"
500
These two religions both seek to end the cycle of rebirth by reaching enlightenment.
What are Buddhism and Hinduism?
500
The primary sources example that the people of the Indus River Valley and Mesopotamia communicated and traded.
What are the Indus Script stamp seals?
500
This seemingly childlike game was actually an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920.
What is tug-of-war?