Concepts
Food preferences, architecture and land use are examples of this.
What is a cultural trait?
This is the Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
What is acculturation?
This primarily European religion is universalizing and relies on missionary work through the teachings and histories of its founding figures to gain new converts.
What is Christianity?
These religions are universalizing religions.
What are Christianity and Islam?
This is the native religion of Japan.
What is Shintoism?
These are historical causes of diffusion.
What are Colonialism, trade and imperialism?
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
This city is claimed by all three of the monotheistic religions.
What is Jerusalem?
This religion spread through relocation, conquest and trade in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Asia Minor.
What is Islam?
This is religion with a rather concentrated distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location where its adherents are located
What is an ethnic religion?
Diffusion can be broken down into these two sub-types.
What are relocation and expansion diffusion?
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
This religion teaches the Four Noble Truths and 8-fold path
What is Buddhism?
This means belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Relocation diffusion
Indo-European is an example of this.
What is a language family?
Ones belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect
What is cultural identity?
This religion was founded in India in the 15th Century AD. Syncretic religion!
What is Sikhism?
This is the third largest religion with more than 1 billion followers.
What is Hinduism?
The primary HISTORICAL reason that English is the most widely spoken Lingua Franca in the world.
What is colonialism/imperialism?
Human interaction with nature helps form this.
What is a cultural landscape?
This term refers to the imprints left on the cultural landscape by cultures that previously occupied a space
What is sequence occupancy?
Judaism
What is desire?
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?