Cultural Geography

Friday, October 6th

 Warm Up
Dear Class,
One of the maps in this room has purple pin in it.
Find it and write down the following:
- The country its in.
- That countrys capital.
- The closest city you can find.
- The continent its on.
You have 3 minutes. Good Luck.
 Chapter 4
What is culture?
What is society?
How do people interact with one
another?
 Chapter 4
Society: relationships among human
beings.
An outward manifestation of the unseen
spiritual world.
An integral part of mans duty to subdue
the earth.
Creation Mandate
 Culture
A societys total way of life including all
of its traditions and institutions.
Traditions the customs and usages that
society passes down from one generation
to the next.
Institutions the formal organizations
by which society transmits traditions.
 Language
The primary instrument for transmitting
culture.
The ability to speak and reason is what
separates us from the animal kingdom.
We are made in the image of God and
the way we communicate is part of that.
 Language
Tower of Babel
God told Noah and his descendents to
spread out and re-populate the Earth.
The people wanted to stay together and
ended up worshiping false gods.
Humanism The belief that human
thought and values should be the central
features of culture; humans can solve all
our own problems.
 Language
Humanism ignores mans basic
problem: Spiritual conflict with God.
Gods solution was to scatter the people
at Babel and confuse their language.
 Language
Spoken Languages
Natural barriers (mountain, oceans and
deserts) have prevented people groups
from communicating.
There are over 6,600 languages spoken in
the world today, with thousand more
dialects.
 Languages
10 Major Language Families
Indo-European Dravidian
Japanese & Korean
Sino-Tibetan
Uralic & Altaic
Malayo-Polynesian Austro-Asiatic
Afro-Asiatic Nilo-Saharan
Other
Niger-
Kordofanian
 Languages
Language Families
Divided into language subfamilies
Germanic German, English, Swedish
and Norwegian
Romance Latin root; Spanish, French
and Italian
 Languages
Written Languages
A mark of advanced culture
Allows a more rapid spread of culture.
In 1900, less than 10% of the worlds
population was literate.
Today, around 75% of the world is
literate.
 Regions
Cultural Region
A human society that shares the same
basic culture.
8 main culture regions: Africa, Asia,
Central Eurasia, Europe, Latin America,
the Middle East, North America and
Oceania.
 Regions
Every culture has similarities:
Appreciation of beauty, concern for
order, moral sense and creative genius.
Sub-regions: smaller regions within the
larger sub-region.
 Activity
Complete Lets Go Exploring activity
on pages 80-81 to turn in.