WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Religious hearths are considered to be the origin centers of particular religions. India is considered the religious cultural hearth region for Buddhism and Hinduism. Important developments and ideas have historically originated from cultural hearths.

Detailed explanation-2: -The seven original cultural hearths are located in: Mesopotamia, Nile Valley and the Indus Valley, Wei-Huang Valley, Ganges Valley, Mesoamerica, West Africa, Andean America. Locate each cultural hearth on the map above. Later in history, some other cultural hearths developed.

Detailed explanation-3: -A cultural hearth can be defined as the epicenter of a culture. A culture develops and has its origins within a hearth center.

Detailed explanation-4: -Culture Hearths DEFINITION a culture hearth is a “heartland", a source area, innovation center, a place of origin of a major culture.

Detailed explanation-5: -New species of early human cooked there 300, 000 years ago, say archaeologists.

Detailed explanation-6: -Today’s modern culture hearths are places such as the United States and world cities like London and Tokyo. Areas such as these are considered modern culture hearths because of the prevalence of their cultural aspects now present throughout much of the world.

Detailed explanation-7: -The Indus River Valley region of NW India/SE Pakistan is considered a major cultural hearth for this part of the world.