Week 4 Project 4c

· Research the word "culture" on the Internet. In a brief paragraph, tell us what you find, tell us how this project topic fits into that definition. Cite your source: Learned behaviour which is socially transmitted, such as customs, belief, morals, technology, and art; everything in society which is socially, rather than biologically transmitted. The word has many connotations and a geographer might define it differently from, say, an archaeologist, who would distinguish between artefacts—material culture—and practices and beliefs—adaptive culture. Culture is the primary factor affecting the way in which individuals and societies respond to the environment. The cultural landscape is the man-made landscape as an expression of the response of a culture to its natural surroundings.
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
Examine any two of your classmates work for a review. Use project 4a and project 3a; so choose 1 student to review for project 3a, and one student for 4a.
· Martha Chavez: I learned that many of the pre Columbian civilizations such as the Aztec, Maya and Andes established characteristics and hallmarks which included urban settlements, agriculture and monumental architecture.Erik Pfeiffer: The native population was wiped out from the bloody conquest when the Spanish arrived. The population in Mexico's central valley was about 19 million before the Spanish conquerors arrived.