Chapter 3: The World's People Section 1: Understanding Culture

_______ shapes how people view the world. Many cultures celebrate holidays that honor their heroes and heroines. A culture is influenced by how it remembers its successes and how it remembers its ________ and defeats.

History disasters

More recently, the widespread use of computer technology has lead to the ________ Revolution. People around the world can instantaneously send and receive information.

Information

Culture is expressed through _____, including painting, sculpture, architect, dance, music, theater, and literature. Insight into a culture can be gained by studying what its people think is ________ and important.

art beautiful

Geographers group the world's _______ into culture regions that have traits, or cultural _______, in common.

countries characteristics

Among people who speak the same language, one may hear a local form of a language, or ________, that differs from the main language.

dialect

Among social groups, geographers study rich, poor, and middle class people. They may look at age or _______. They may study different _______ groups, or people who share a common language, history, religion, and some physical characteristics.

gender ethnic

In studying how the people of a culture earn a living, _________ study the culture's economic system. This "system" sets rules for how people decide what goods and services to produce and how they are _________.

geographers exchanged

Types of _________ can reflect a country's culture. A democracy is a form of limited government in which power rests with the people of a nation. In a __________ democracy, such as the United States, citizen elect representatives. Some governments are led by individuals. In a dictatorship, dictators control and rule as the wish. In a _________, kings and queens inherit the power to rule.

government representative dictatorship

In the 1700s and 1800s, some countries began to ________ and built factories to make goods, leading to the Industrial _________.

industrialize revolution

In many cultures, religion helps people answer basic questions about life's _______. Religious beliefs vary greatly around the world and have resulted in conflicts and _________ based on religious differences.

meaning struggles

As people learned to grow food, they tended to stay in one place build _________. This produced highly developed cultures, or civilizations.

settlements

What is Culture? Culture is the way of life of a group of people who share _______ beliefs and customs.

similiar

When studying culture, geographers look at eight traits 1. ______ groups 2. language 3. religion 4. ______ life 5. history 6. arts 7. _______ 8. economy

social daily government

A process of _________ new knowledge and skills to other cultures is called cultural diffusion. This happens as a result of trade, the movement of people, war, television, the Internet, and so on.

spreading

Daily life _______ in different cultures. For example, the types of foods that people eat and the way they build their homes may vary.

varies