1. What is cultural diffusion??

2. Paragraph #1: How do the civilization of Japan and Africa benefit from being so close to the larger civilizations of Islam and China?
Paragraph #2: Describe the cultural borrowing/diffusion that happened as a result of their geographic relationship.
Paragraph #3: How did the geographic proximity of the Mesoamerican civilizations affect their culture? How does this compare to the affect of geographic location on Japanese and African cultures?

3. Rubric
Essay demonstrates excellent knowledge and example of how civilizations benefit from contact with on another.
Essay demonstrates good knowledge and example of how civilizations benefit from contact with on another.
Essay demonstrates decent knowledge and example of how civilizations benefit from contact with on another.
Essay demonstrates little knowledge and example of how civilizations benefit from contact with on another.
Essay demonstrates no knowledge and example of how civilizations benefit from contact with on another. 4 3 2 1

4. China & Japan
Mesoamerica
Africa & Islam

5. Location Trade Cultural Diffusion
Paragraph 1: Introduction
Location
Trade
Cultural Diffusion
Paragraph #1: How do the civilization of Japan and Africa benefit from being so close to the larger civilizations of Islam and China?

6. Brainstorm: Paragraph 2
Government
Architecture
Language
Art
religion
Japan Africa
Buddhism
Government
Music
Poetry
City Design
Confucianism
Architecture
Chinese Writing
Arabic
Art
Islam
Architecture
Scholarship
Universities
Laws
Paragraph #2: Describe the cultural borrowing/diffusion that happened as a result of their geographic relationship

7. Brainstorm: Paragraph 2
China
Japan
Buddhism
Government
Music
Poetry
City Design
Confucianism
Architecture
Chinese Writing
Paragraph #2: Describe the cultural borrowing/diffusion that happened as a result of their geographic relationship

8. Brainstorm: Paragraph 2
Arabian
Peninsula
Language
Art
Islam
Architecture
Scholarship
Laws
Africa
Paragraph #2: Describe the cultural borrowing/diffusion that happened as a result of their geographic relationship

9. Brainstorm: Paragraph 3
Came before other societies
Did not trade with Inca
Did not trade with Aztec
Inca
Aztec
Maya
ISOLATED SOCIETIES
Paragraph #3: How did the geographic proximity of the Mesoamerican civilizations affect their culture? How does this compare to the affect of geographic location on Japanese and African cultures?

10. Brainstorm: Paragraph 3
Japan Mesoamerica
Paragraph #3: How did the geographic proximity of the Mesoamerican civilizations affect their culture? How does this compare to the affect of geographic location on Japanese and African cultures?