Timeless Gifts Through The

Ages

Isprocess of spreading new knowledge and

skills to other cultures

Culture Review Culture – a way of life for people who

share similar beliefs and customs. Culture Regions – geographic areas which

are grouped by common cultural characteristicsReligionLanguage

Culture Trait – characteristics that make cultural groups unique from all othersReligionGovernmentLanguageDressArts

ArchitectureBuilding construction

GovernmentScience

TechnologySports

PaintingSculpture

Language and LiteraturePhilosophy

and others…

Where do we get our ideas about…?

How did our civilization become technologically, scientifically and

culturally advanced?

We took the best of what other people developed and it has spread throughout

the cultures of the world.

Modern Western Civilization is advanced, in part, because we have

borrowed the ideas of people who came before us.

This process is called…

• When a culture group borrows a culture trait from another culture • May change or adapt it to fit the new culture group

We are going to study four periods in history that have contributed many

ideas that continue to shape our modern culture.

From the Ancient Greeks we have...

Theater

Architectural

styles

Democracy

Olympics

Math &

ScienceGeography &

History

Language &

Literature

Philosophy

From the Ancient Romans we have...

Roads

Language & Literature

Elected

officials

Architectural Styles

Census

Science &

Technology

Government

From the Middle Ages we have...

Limited

GovernmentArchitectural Styles

Spread of

Religion

Universities

From the Renaissance we have...

Exploration

and

DiscoveryM

any Inventions

Innovations in Art & Architecture

Great Works of Art

Innovations in Science

What allowed these historical What allowed these historical eras to borrow from each eras to borrow from each

other?other?

was the bridge that allowed cultures to borrow from each

other.

It is not so much when these people lived, but where they

lived.

Why would Europe be a good place for people to trade ideas?

The people from these eras lived on the continent of Europe.

Many peninsulas

Access to the sea

Diverse people living close

together

Near other continents

How do we communicate new

ideas and inventions with one another in

today’s modern culture?

What do we call the spread of ideas between

cultures?

Geography influences the development of culture.

A culture’s development is dependent upon its ability to adapt to or modify the

environment.The foundations of modern society are built on contributions from the

past.