Cultures

CULTURES OF THE WORLD

What can you see?

Culture

• Way of life of people,including their beliefs and practices

• Elements in culture

• Cultural landscape: is the parts of a people´s environment thay they have shaped and the technology they have used to shape it.

Open Ended

Can you name three elements in your culture?

Development of Culture

• Invention of tools

• Control of fire/Agriculture

• Development of civilizations: advanced cultures with cities and the use of writing.

Technology and Civilizations

• At the beginning they were hunters and gatherers -Nomads

• People discovered how to grow crops/tamed animals

• Agricultural revolution

• Asia and Africa started working on crafts/develop law and government. Develop writing

• All this produced the first true civilizations about 5000 years ago.

• 200 years ago invention of power-driven machinery

• Industrial Revolution came.

Open Ended

How are culture and environment related?

Development of Institutions

• Before the Agricultural Revolution people had simple institutions,customs and organizations with social, educational or religious purposes.

• As people gathered in larger groups- a need for more complex institutions.

• Today- all kinds of institutions(political parties,museums,sports,universities,schools)