Language and Communication
This type of widespread language is used for trade and communication between people who speak different native tongues.
Lingua Franca
This type of religion seeks to gain new members and appeal to all people globally.
Universalizing Religion
A process where a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of a more dominant group, often causing a loss of heritage.
Assimilation
The physical reflection of a people on the land, showing how they have shaped their natural surroundings.
Cultural Landscape
Building styles created by local people that are specifically tied to and designed for the local environment.
Indigenous Agriculture
People who are able to speak a multitude of languages are known by this term.
Polyglots?
Identified with a particular group, this type of religion does not actively seek converts.
Ethnic Religion
Changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, while both groups remain distinct.
Acculturation
The spread of an idea or tradition through the physical movement of people from one place to another.
Relocation Diffusion
A functional and rational building style often using mass-produced materials that look standardized.
Modernist Architecture
This is a makeshift language developed for trade between groups who do not share a common language.
Pidgin Language
A belief system where people believe that souls or spirits exist in normally nonliving things or nature.
Animistic Religion
An approach to viewing other cultures by judging them based on the standards of one's own culture.
Ethnocentric
A type of spread that occurs when a trend created by a person of authority or power spreads to other people.
Hierarchical Diffusion
The feeling that a place has lost its unique look because buildings and environments have become standardized.
Placelessness
Once a makeshift trade language evolves and becomes the native language of a people, it is known as this.
Creole Language
This type of religion is created by combining elements of two or more different belief systems.
Syncretic Religion
A policy that promotes the inclusion and active participation of minority groups in national histories and politics.
Multicultarism
The idea that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, creating visible layers of history.
Sequent Occupance
A style that reacts against modernism by incorporating diverse colors, strange shapes, and artistic flourishes.
Postmodernist Agriculture
As technology allows for more rapid communication, the distance between places feels like it is "shrinking," a concept known as this.
Time-Space Convergence
These human-made or natural sites possess deep religious meaning and are recognized as places of devotion.
Sacred Spaces
The act of forcefully controlling a foreign territory by an outside power.
Colonialism
A cultural choice of diet created by the availability of resources and environmental factors in the past.
Food Preferences
A linear system where farmsteads are located on narrow tracts to provide equal access to a resource like water.
Long-Lot Settlement Pattern