DIFFUSION

• Refers to how something diffuses or spreads.

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• New plants animals ideas and even disease were exchanged between the people of the America and those of Europe Asia and Africa

CULTURAL CONVERGENCE

• Occurs when different cultures exchange ideas and become more similar

CULTURAL DIVERGENCE

• Occurs when different cultural influence Cause an area to divide into separate parts

PANDEMIC FLU

• Virus was detected in birds in Vietnam

CHINESE INVENTIONS FOSTER EUROPEAN EXPLORATION

• china developed gunpowder, the compass, and printing
• European merchants like Marco Polo brought news of these inventions back to Europe
• Launch voyage of exploration across the Atlantic Ocean

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE