After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
Define and explain the components of culture.
Summarize how people interact with the environment and distinguish between environmental determinism and possibilism.
Identify and provide examples of the three subsystems of culture.
Explain the ways in which cultures change.
Identify major world cultural hearths and the chief centers of plant and animal domestication.
Explicate the conditions that both promote and retard diffusion of cultural traits.
Locate, on a world map, the primary spatial distribution of the world's major religions and language families.
Understand the role of language and religion in cultural identification, cultural change, and cultural diffusion.
Classify religions as ethnic, universalizing, or tribal.
Summarize the basic beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Describe the spatial diffusion of the major religions throughout history and identify which forms of diffusion were dominant under certain historical conditions.
Define ethnicity and discuss territorial segregation.
Understand the role of gender in various societies and discuss how it can be linked to economic development.
Define a culture realm and locate world culture realms on a map.
