AP Human Geo (APHuG) LoFi Unit 3: Cultural Diffusion

Cultural diffusion spreads ideas

Across societies and spheres

Expansion diffusion grows outward slow

While the hearth continues to glow

Contagious diffusion spreads quick and wide

Through close contact side by side

Hierarchical flows through power or fame

Influence spreading through the chain

Cultural diffusion shows the flow

How ideas move and cultures grow

Across the map the patterns remain

Ideas traveling across terrain

Relocation diffusion moves with migration

People carry culture to new locations

Languages, foods, beliefs appear

In places far from where they began here

Global networks speed the spread

Ideas traveling paths we tread

Geographers track diffusion to explain

How culture spreads across terrain