Global Villages Part III
Sign up to take the Global Villageson this site Global Villages are representatives of the 11 dominant culture regions, as designated by cultural geography maps Part III course, which introduces you to the final three dominant cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static regions in this series of Courses. The Global Villages courses on this site are both historical and cultural in content because it is difficult to discuss one without the other. Geographic location is also an undeniable impact upon culture and cultural adaptations. Therefore, Cultural Geography, today, divides the world’s land masses into eleven (11) separate and dominant culture regions.
This website refers to each of those eleven (11) dominant culture regions as Global Villages, because our globalized world is both connected and interdependent, as neighboring villages have always been.
In reality, there are thousands of cultural regions across the globe. However, due to colonialismthe policy of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, exploiting it economically More, tribal conflicts, wars, ethnic cleansingthe mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society - think the Holocaust--mass slaughter of Jews by the Nazis in WWII More, regional disasters, and mass immigration over time, nearly every region has changed in cultural makeup from its humble beginnings. Sign up now!
Lessons for Global Villages Part III are: Slavic Global Villagethe Slavic culture region includes part of Central Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia and parts of Northern Asia, including Belarus, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Gulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Serbia and other countries not clearly defined in the culture region like Transnistria and Kosovo, Latin American Global Villagethe Latin American culture region includes all of South America, plus Mesoamerica, and including the Easter Island, which was annexed and claimed by Chile in 1888, Oceania Global Villagea place in the world where your ancestor may have lived, the world is divided into cultural areas, each area designated as a global village, see the Global Villages Map. and Cultural Impacts.
Go to the Home Page for Global Villages Part III to complete the series on Global Villages.
Added perk to Global Villages courses is a Certificate upon completion of all three courses.
Slavicof, relating to, or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic ), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian ( West Slavic ), and Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene ( South Slavic ).