Culture
Vocabulary
Push/Pull Factor
The Silk Road
Miscellaneous
100

The way cultures spread from one area to another. 

What is cultural DIFFUSION? 

100

Journey to another location. 

What is TRAVEL?

100

War, poor health care, no jobs, and bad weather. 

What are PUSH factors?

100

An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean. 

What is The Silk Road? 

100

The acronym P.I.G.

What is PEOPLE, IDEAS, and GOODS?

200

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?

200

The movement of P.I.G.

What is DIFFUSION?

200

Great job opportunities, beautiful weather, family, free public education, economic stability, and great health care, etc.

What are PULL factors? 

200

Some of the lasting effects of travel along the Silk Road? 

What is... -religious ideas spread, -goods, ideas, customs, and language were exchanged etc. 

200

You travel to another country and bring new ideas home and share with others. 

What is DIRECT DIFFUSION? 

300

What is CULTURE? 

300

Exchange of goods and services. 

What is TRADE?

300

Reasons that are beneficial (positive) to settle in an area. 

What is a PULL factor?

300

The Silk Road began.

What is over 2,100 years ago?

300

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?

400

Food, music, dance, language, holidays, ceremony, etc. 

What are types of culture?

400

Move from one area or country to settle in another. 

What is to MIGRATE? 

400

Negative reasons people leave their home country. 

What is a PUSH factor?

400

The Silk Road involved three continents.  

What is Europe, Africa, and Asia?

400

The place that is influenced by new ideas.  The place that new cultural ideas begin and grow. 

What is the meaning of CULTURE HEARTHS? 

500

The place where culture begins and is most concentrated. 

What is cultural hearth? 

500

A traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

What is CUSTOM?

500

Give 3 examples of each.

What are (answers will vary)?

500

Was the most famous Silk Road trader/explorer.

Who is Marco Polo?

500

The desert of death (Hint: the worst desert on Earth).

What is the Taklamakan Desert. 

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