Western Civilization 201

October 21st, 2019 Cultural Diffusion           Cultural diffusion is the process of cultural aspects expanding from one region to another. The 5 major types of cultural diffusion are expansion diffusion, relocation diffusion, hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, and stimulus diffusion. Expansion diffusion is an idea that develops in a certain area and spreads to other areas. Hierarchical, stimulus, and contagious diffusion can also have the same effect. Relocation diffusion is an idea that spreads to another area but leaves its own special cultural trait behind. Hierarchical diffusion is an idea that spreads by moving from larger to smaller places. Contagious diffusion is an idea that spreads from person-to-person contact. Stimulus diffusion is an idea that spreads based on its attachments to other concepts. The Columbian Exchange was the extensive transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas b...

October 17th, 2019 Mapping Europe 1. Russia       11. Denmark                     21. Hungary                 31. Iceland                41. Luxembourg 2. Finland     12. Poland                         22. Serbia                     32. Netherlands        42. Liechtenstein 3. Estonia     13. The  Czech Republic  23. Kosovo                   33. Belgium              43. France  4. Belarus     14. Slovakia                      24. Macedonia             34. Switzerland       ...

October 17th, 2019 Globalization            Globalization is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.  It connects local and national economies to form a global market. Throughout history, globalization has become more developed due to advances in technology, transportation, and  communication. The four basic aspects of globalization are trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people, and the dissemination of knowledge.

October 7th, 2019 The 5 Themes of Geography            In human geography, there are 3 types of regions. A region is an area on the Earth that has places with similar and unifying characteristics. The first type of region is a formal region. Formal regions have boundaries that are formally defined. Some examples of formal regions are districts, provinces, countries, and continents. Another type of region is called a functional region. Functional regions usually encompass a central point with defined boundaries and the area around it that is connected by a well-developed network of transportation and communication systems that facilitates the movement of people, goods, and ideas. The last type of region is known as a vernacular region. Vernacular regions share unifying physical and human characteristics and have imaginary borders. 

October 2nd, 2019 The 5 Themes of Geography           The 5 themes of geography include location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. The first theme of geography, location, is a particular place or position on the earth. Geographers describe location through toponyms, site, and situation. The name of a specific place is its toponym. The site of an area is its own physical features. The situation is the environmental conditions of the place. Another theme of geography, place, describes the physical or human aspects of a location. The place of a location is closely associated with the toponym, site, and situation of that specific area. Some examples of the place are landforms, human populations, and human cultures. Human-environment interaction is another theme of geography that tells geographers how humans interact with the ecosystem. The 3 main characteristics of human-environment interaction are dependency, adaption, and modificatio...

September 28th, 2019 Mapping the World Part 2: The United States 1. Washington             13. Oklahoma             25. Illinois             37. West Virginia             49. Alaska 2. Oregon                    14. Kansas                  26. Indiana            38. Pennsylvania              50. Hawaii 3. California                15. Nebraska              27. Ohio                39. New York  4. Arizona                   16. South Dakota       28. Kentucky         40. Vermont 5. Nevada   ...

September 26th, 2019 Telling Time + Time Zones           A timezone is a region of the globe that has a standard time used for  legal, commercial, and social purposes.  The most used standard is UTC (Coordinated Universial Time). Most of the timezones in UTC have an offset in whole hours but some have an offset of 30 or 45 minutes. One timezone that is used in the UTC system is called GMT (Greenwhich Mean Time). Unlike the other timezones, GMT has no offset from UTC. Some continents that use the GMT timezone include Europe, Africa, North America, and Antarctica.  Another system some countries use is daylight saving time. Daylight saving time is used for part of the year to save daylight. When using this system, clocks are  adjusted by an hour.