Warm up Get your binder out but just sit at your desk ready for the quiz.
Innovation and Diffusion
Warm up Why would agricultural civilizations produce more inventions than hunter-gatherer societies? List 3 reasons
Location The most important part of a good location is that you have innovative neighbors. That way, you don’t have to invent everything yourself, you can borrow their good ideas.
Terminology: Innovation: a new way of doing something. Inventions are an example. Diffusion: the spread of something to neighboring areas.
Diffusion Diffusion is especially important to the theory of geographic luck. Diffusion shows that isolation can actually be the worst disadvantage for a civilization.
Paths of Diffusion: 4000BC
Paths of Diffusion: 1000BC
Paths of Diffusion: 400AD
Paths of Diffusion: 1500AD
Assignment You will be tracking the spread of 6 critical innovations. On one map: the spread of farming On the other map: Wheel Writing Sailing Compass Gunpowder Due Thursday