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 south Asian religion has a heavy emphasis on reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
These religions are universalizing religions.
What are Christianity and Islam?
The spread of a cultural trait, idea, or innovation
What is Diffusion?
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?
The increasing spread of people, products, business, and ideas around the world
What is globalization?
Religions can be broken into these two types based on their growth model.
What are universalizing and ethnic?
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?
Hierarchical 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 is the native religion of Japan
What is Shintoism
This is the third largest religion with more than 1 billion followers.
What is Hinduism?
The idea that after this life you will come back in another life either as a plant, animal, or a human life.
What is reincarnation?
The superimposed features humans place on the natural environment
What is a cultural landscape?
This term refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint
What is sequence occupancy?
This is a religion with a concentrated distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location where its followers are located
What is an ethnic religion?
What is desire?
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?