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Cultural Geography (347) |
The wide-ranging and comprehensive field of geography that studies spatial aspects of human cultures |
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Culture Health (347) |
A source area or innovation center from which cultural traditions are transmitted |
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Cultural Diffusion (347) |
The outward spreading of a culture trait from its hearth to other places |
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Cultural Ecology (347) |
The multiple relationships between human cultures and their natural environments |
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Mesopotamia (347) |
The Tirgris-Euphrates Plain of present day Iraq- literally "land amidst the rivers"- which is the hearth of civilization |
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Fertile Crescent (347) |
An arc stretching from the eastern Mediterranean coast to near the Persian Gulf, site of early plant domestication and farming innovations |
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Hydraulic-Civilization theory (348) |
Civilizations able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands; often held power over others in less fortuitous locations |
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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 |
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Spatial Diffusion (351) |
The spatial spreading or dissemination of a phenomenon across space and through time |
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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. |