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Cultural Diffusion
Essential Question: How does cultural diffusion occur?
I. WARM-UP
Today, thanks to immigrants from all over the world, Americans enjoy foods from many
cultures. This is just one example of cultural diffusion in the United States.
1. What are some other ways that cultural diffusion affects Americans? Write an example
for each category on the web below.
Sports
Word(s) From
Another Language
Clothing
Influence of
Other Cultures
Music
2. How has cultural diffusion enriched your life?
II. EXPLORATION
Cultural diffusion began in ancient times when people first began trading and
migrating. As you complete the following journal entries, you will see how various
aspects of cultures have spread.
1. Alphabet: What role did trade play in the Greek alphabet? (Chapter 4, Section 2)
2. Spread of Roman Culture: Complete the graphic organizer below to show the
traditions that produced the Greco-Roman civilization. (Chapter 5, Section 3)
Greco-Roman civilization
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3. Byzantine Empire: Complete the chart below to compare how the Byzantines spread
their culture with how the Romans spread theirs. (Chapter 9, Section 1)
Roman Culture
Byzantine Culture
a. Language and Learning
Used Latin in literature
b. Religion
Diverse religions, then rise of
Christianity with pope as head
c. Art and Architecture
Sculpture, frescoes, mosaics, columns,
arches, domed roof, aqueducts
d. Political Ideas
Civil law, law of the nations
e. Where Culture Spread
Throughout Mediterranean, Northern
Africa, Europe, Asia Minor
f. How Culture Spread
Conquest, trade
4. Spread of Islam: List at least four reasons that help explain how Islam spread.
(Chapter 10, Section 3)
a.
b.
c.
d.
5. WebQuest: Cultural Diffusion How has what you have learned about the movement
of goods and ideas expanded your understanding of cultural diffusion?
Transfer Your Knowledge
For: WebQuest Web Code: nah-1108
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6. Mongols: In what ways did Kublai Khan try to maintain Mongol identity after he
defeated China? (Chapter 12, Section 2)
7. a. What ideas of the Abbasid dynasty (750–850) and the Renaissance helped make
these periods golden ages? (Chapter 10, Section 3 and Chapter 13, Section 1)
b. How were these ideas spread?
8. Roots of Democracy: Complete the graphic organizer to show four ideas of the
Enlightenment that were the roots of the United States Constitution. (Chapter 17,
Sections 1 and 3)
United States Constitution
III. ESSAY
Bring together what you have read in your textbook with the information you have
gathered online about this concept. On a separate sheet of paper, answer the essential
question: How does cultural diffusion occur?
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