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Cultural Geography (347)

The wide-ranging and comprehensive field of geography that studies spatial aspects of human cultures

Culture Health (347)

A source area or innovation center from which cultural traditions are transmitted

Cultural Diffusion (347)

The outward spreading of a culture trait from its hearth to other places

Cultural Ecology (347)

The multiple relationships between human cultures and their natural environments

Mesopotamia (347)

The Tirgris-Euphrates Plain of present day Iraq- literally "land amidst the rivers"- which is the hearth of civilization

Fertile Crescent (347)

An arc stretching from the eastern Mediterranean coast to near the Persian Gulf, site of early plant domestication and farming innovations

Hydraulic-Civilization theory (348)

Civilizations able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands; often held power over others in less fortuitous locations

Climate Change Theory (350)

An alternative to the hydraulic civilization theory; holds that changing climate (rather than a monopoly over irrigation methods) could have provided certain cities in the ancient Fertile Crescent with advantages over others

Spatial Diffusion (351)

The spatial spreading or dissemination of a phenomenon across space and through time

Expansion Diffusion (351)

The spreading of an idea or innovation through a mixed population in such a way that the number of those adopting grows continuously larger.