1. Warm up
Get your binder out but just sit at your desk ready for the quiz.

2. Innovation and Diffusion

3. Warm up
Why would agricultural civilizations produce more inventions than hunter-gatherer societies?
List 3 reasons

4. 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.

5. Terminology: Innovation: a new way of doing something.
Inventions are an example.
Diffusion: the spread of something to neighboring areas.

6. Diffusion
Diffusion is especially important to the theory of geographic luck.
Diffusion shows that isolation can actually be the worst disadvantage for a civilization.

7. Paths of Diffusion: 4000BC

8. Paths of Diffusion: 1000BC

9. Paths of Diffusion: 400AD

10. Paths of Diffusion: 1500AD

11. 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