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Key Cultural Geography Maps and Images Use Unit 3 Review Guide Use Unit 3 Quizlet Flash Cards Use resources on Unit 3 - Cultural Geography Page on Wikispace Review details in slideshows and class notes: Intro to Local and Popular Culture Geography of Religion Geography of Language Geography of U.S. Race and Ethnicity
Transcript of Key Cultural Geography Review Images - Global Studies
Key Cultural Geography Maps
and Images
Use Unit 3 Review Guide
Use Unit 3 Quizlet Flash Cards
Use resources on Unit 3 - Cultural Geography
Page on Wikispace
Review details in slideshows and class notes:
Intro to Local and Popular Culture
Geography of Religion
Geography of Language
Geography of U.S. Race and Ethnicity
Local Culture
Popular Culture
Examples of U.S. Popular Culture
Material Culture
Non-material culture
Cultural LandscapeA landscape changed by a cultural group
Cultural DiffusionSpread of cultural ideas from one person
or group to another(see specific types of diffusion in
Intro to Local and Popular Culture Class Notes)
• Distance decay: the farther from the hearth, the less likely an idea is to be adopted
• Time-space compression: ideas diffuse more quickly to places that are highly connected via transportation and communication networks
Diffusion of Innovation Model
How Is Religion Expressed on
the Cultural Landscape?
Religious Hearths
World Religions Map
Remember these are broad generalizations!
Where are you most likely to encounter Hindus? Buddhists? Jews?
Christians? Muslims? Followers of traditional religious beliefs? Why in
those locations? How does it affect those locations?
Muslim Distribution Map
Sunni and Shi’a Muslims
Sunni more diffused, Shia predominantly in Iran and parts
of Iraq and Afghanistan
Source: CIA World Factbook 2010
Why so many more languages spoken in the tropics?
Major Language Families
Lime green = Indo-European Language Family
Sino-Tibetan
Austronesian
Afro-Asiatic
Niger-Congo
Dravidian
Altaic
English is in the Indo-European Language Family
Language Subfamilies
English = Germanic
Subfamily
Example of Dialect Difference
Anglophone Countries
Hispanophone Countries
Francophone Countries
Hispanic: Person Whose Ancestors Come From
Spanish Speaking Countries or Regions
Hispanics may be of
any race.
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C
B
E
D
A F
1 2 3
4 5
6 7
Mystery Maps
A. % of Persons Who Are American
Indian or Alaska Native
B. % of Persons Who Are Asian
C. % of Persons Who Are Black or
African American
D. % of Persons Who Are Hispanic
or Latino (of any race), 2000
E. % of Persons Who Are Native
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
F. % of Persons Of Two Or More
Races
G. % of Persons Who Are White
Gender Inequality Index 2014
