Enduring Understandings for the College Board CED

• Cultural practices vary across geographical locations because of physical geography and available resources.
• The interaction of people contributes to the spread of cultural practices.
• Cultural ideas, practices, and innovations change or disappear over time.

How are languages distributed? How did diffusion affect the spread of language? What other factors could influence the diffusion of language and religion?

Every society has five social institutions: family, education, belief systems, economy, and government. Language is the transmitter of culture. Ethnicity is closely aligned with language.