World Regions & Culture
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World Regions & CultureDifferent Cultures: One World, Many People
AIM: How do we define a Region, Culture, and a Custom?
Do Now: Vocabulary Quiz
What is a Region? An area with common features that set it apart from other areas.Different Types of Regions:
• Physical Regions: (Continents, Amazon, Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Long Island)
• Climate Regions: (North Pole, Sahara Desert, Himalayas, Andes Mountains)
• Cultural Regions: (Latin America, Chiapas – Mayan Indian, Cherokee Nation)
• Political Regions: (U.S.A., United Kingdom, Egypt, Greece, Italy)
• Other Regions: (Military: NATO, Religion: Islam, Christian, Judaism)
Amazon
North PoleChiapas
United Kingdom
Regions:
What is Culture? All the ways of life
including arts, beliefs and institutions (family, government, religion, etc) of a population that are passed down from generation to generation.
Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society”
A statue in Bangalore, India depicting Siva meditating.
Customs are codes of manners, dress, language, religion, and rituals (Something done over and over, day after day or year after year)
What is a Custom?