The way cultures spread from one area to another.
What is cultural DIFFUSION?
Journey to another location.
What is TRAVEL?
War, poor health care, no jobs, and bad weather.
What are PUSH factors?
An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean.
What is The Silk Road? 
The acronym P.I.G.
What is PEOPLE, IDEAS, and GOODS?
The Ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society, which are learned behaviors. Unites people of a single society together through shared beliefs, traditions, and expectations.
What is CULTURE?
The movement of P.I.G.
What is DIFFUSION?
Great job opportunities, beautiful weather, family, free public education, economic stability, and great health care, etc.
What are PULL factors?
Some of the lasting effects of travel along the Silk Road?
What is... -religious ideas spread, -goods, ideas, customs, and language were exchanged etc.
You travel to another country and bring new ideas home and share with others.
What is DIRECT DIFFUSION?

What is CULTURE?
Exchange of goods and services.
What is TRADE?
Reasons that are beneficial (positive) to settle in an area.
What is a PULL factor?
The Silk Road began.
What is over 2,100 years ago?
A custom or belief that is passed down through the generations or that is done time after time or year after year.
What is a TRADITION?
Food, music, dance, language, holidays, ceremony, etc.
What are types of culture?
Move from one area or country to settle in another.
What is to MIGRATE?
Negative reasons people leave their home country.
What is a PUSH factor?
The Silk Road involved three continents.
What is Europe, Africa, and Asia?
The place that is influenced by new ideas. The place that new cultural ideas begin and grow.
What is the meaning of CULTURE HEARTHS?
The place where culture begins and is most concentrated.
What is cultural hearth?
A traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.
What is CUSTOM?
Give 3 examples of each.
What are (answers will vary)?
Was the most famous Silk Road trader/explorer.
Who is Marco Polo?
The desert of death (Hint: the worst desert on Earth).
What is the Taklamakan Desert. 