Culture
The beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society and passed down from generation to generation.
Culture
A natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs and values.
Cultural Landscape
A collection of languages within a language family that share a common origin and separated from other branches in the same family several thousand years ago.
Language Branch
A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ that began in what is now the West Bank and Israel around the beginning of the common era and has spread to all continents.
Christianity
The process by which a cultural trait spreads from one place to another over time.
Diffusion
The widespread behaviors, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people in society at a given point in time.
Popular Culture
The evaluation of a culture by its own standards.
Cultural Relativism
languages within a language branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past and have vocabularies with a high degree of overlap.
Language Groups
A religion that tries to appeal to all humans and is open to membership by everyone.
Universalizing Religions
The SPREAD of a cultural trait outward from where it originated.
Expansion Diffusion
The long-established behaviors, beliefs, and practices passed down from generation to generation.
Traditional Culture
The tendency of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according to preconceived ideas originating from their own culture.
Ethnocentrism
A language that is unrelated to any other known language.
Isolate (100 bonus points is you used the Basque as an example)
The oldest universalizing religion, which arose from a hearth in northeastern India some time between the mid-sixth and mid-fourth centuries B.C.E. and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha.
Buddhism
The spread of an idea or trait from a person or place of power or authority to other people or places.
Hierarchical Diffusion
A central, enduring element of a culture that reflects its shared ideas, values, knowledge, and beliefs.
Mentifacts
The state belonging to a group of people who share common cultural characteristics.
Ethnicity
A group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth, or region of origin.
Focused on worldly rather than spiritual concerns.
Secularism
The process by which an idea or cultural trait spreads rapidly among people of all social classes and levels of power.
Contagious Diffusion
A shared object or cultural practice.
Artifacts
The notion that successive societies leave behind their cultural imprint, a collection of evidence about human character and experiences within a geographic region, which shapes the cultural landscape.
Sequent Occupance
The blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language.
Creolization
A religion that is closely tied with a particular ETHNIC group living in a particular place.
Ethnic Religions
The process by which a cultural trait or idea spreads to another culture or region but is modified to adapt to the new culture.
Stimulus Diffusion