Cultural Origins
Culture that has reached a high level of development.
What is CIVILIZATION?
The areas in the world where the 4 earliest civilizations (culture hearths) developed.
What are EGYPT, IRAQ, PAKISTAN, and CHINA?
The 5 factors that are considered when describing different culture regions.
What are GOVERNMENTS, SOCIAL GROUPS, ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, LANGUAGE, RELIGION.
The study of how people make choices on buying, selling, and using things.
What is ECONOMICS?
Ford focusing on just making cars, and Coca Cola focusing on just making drinks is an example of this.
What is SPECIALIZATION?
The study of written information about a peoples past.
What is HISTORY?
The 3 common geographic features of the earliest culture hearths.
What are FERTILE SOIL, MILD CLIMATE, and near a RIVER FOR ADEQUATE WATER SUPPLY?
The major languages of the world today.
What are CHINESE, ENGLISH, HINDI, RUSSIAN, SPANISH, ARABIC
What are the 4 FACTORS of PRODUCTION?
The 3 things needed to increase or improve productivity.
What are EDUCATED AND TRAINED EMPLOYEES, CAPITAL, TECHNOLOGY?
The time in a peoples past before written records were kept.
What is PREHISTORY?
What are TRADE, TRAVEL and MIGRATION?
A powerful communication tool that helps people preserve their past and present experiences through history and literature.
What is LANGUAGE?
When you have limited resources and unlimited needs and wants. The economic problem.
What is SCARCITY?
The want for money from minerals found in the deep sea.
The destruction and harm to ocean life and ultimately the environment and human life.
What are the causes and effects of deep sea mining?
The place where a civilization began.
What is CULTURE HEARTH?
Reasons for culture barriers.
What are LACK OF UNDERSTANDING, FEAR, or MISTRUST; also NATURAL BARRIERS SUCH AS DESSERTS, MOUNTAINS, OCEANS.
An economic system based on free enterprise.
What is CAPITALISM?
The main goal of business. The money you have left after you have paid all your expenses and bills.
What is PROFIT?
Major languages of the world today.
Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian, Arabic
The spread of people, ideas, and goods from one culture to another.
What is CULTURE DIFFUSION?
Another word for hearth.
What is HOME?
An economic system where the government decides how resources are used and businesses are run.
What is SOCIALISM?
The two things needed to make a profit.
What are PRODUCTIVITY AND SPECIALIZATION?
When private businesses operate with little or no interference from government.
What is FREE ENTERPRISE?