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๐ŸŒถ Unit 3 - Cultural Diffusion, Language, & Religion

๐ŸšœAP Human Geography
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๐ŸŒถ Unit 3 - Cultural Diffusion, Language, & Religion

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025
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Verified for the 2026 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025

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Culture includes language, religion, clothes, housing, traditions, and other ways people express themselves. Folk culture is traditional while popular culture is rooted in mass media. Culture spreads in several ways including through relocation, contagious, hierarchical, and stimulus. This unit also includes a focus on language and religion to understand how each affects the cultural landscape and how diffusion changes them over time.