The Inuit Culture

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The geography of the Inuit affected their Universals of Culture in many ways. One Universals of Culture affected is Tools and Technology. Tools and Technology was affected because all their tool and the technology had to be made out of with anything they could find. In one picture we looked at there was several weapons and tools made to hunt animals, to fish, to build shelter, etc. . Some of the weapons looks like they had been carved out of bone and most looked like they were made out of wood. When I looked at the maps I first looked at the Economic activity map. I saw that most of the area where the Inuits lived the economic activity was Hunting and Gathering and saw some Nomadic Herding. This makes sense because there were no fast

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