ILIANA AND LILLY

VOCABULARY

• Diffusion-refers to how something diffuses or spreads
• Columbian exchange new plants new animal ideas & even diseases
• Cultural convergence when different cultural exchange ideas
• Cultural divergence occurs when different cultural influences cause an area to divide into separate parts
• Pandemic flu a new strain of influenza that might lead to a global pandemic

CHINESE INVENTIONS FOSTER EUROPEAN EXPLORATION

• Marco Polo brought news of these inventions back to Europe
• They borrowed from the Chinese
• The Europeans copied these products

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• European and Native American cultures encountered each other for the first time in 1492.
• Europeans brought horse ,goats,cattle,pigs etc to America
• By this time native Americans had developed many foods unknown to Europeans

THE SPREAD OF CHINESE CULTURE

• Japan's location close to chine brought many aspects of Chinese culture to japan
• Japan also adapted Chinese characters to create their own written language
• For example,Japan's rulers claimed to be absolute emperors,like those of china

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