ANTH 1031 Chapter 4: Chapter #4
7 Mar 2017
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Society: a socially distinct group of people who share a common language and culture. Culture: the socially learned knowledge and patterns of behaviour shared by some group of people. Cultural change was historically a slow process. Recently, globalization has created a time of rapid cultural change humans have never seen before. The ow of cultural knowledge, directly or indirectly, between the different peoples of the world. Old world: landmasses of europe, asia, and africa. New world: landmasses of north and south america. Prior to 1492 (when columbus discovered the americas), the old and new worlds were developing separately after the discovery of the new world, europeans expanded their territory and globalization and diversi cation began. Columbian exchange: the exchange of people, diseases, domesticated animals and plants, and other cultural knowledge between the peoples of the new world and the old. The discovery of india and establishment of trade there.
