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Folk/Pop/Cultural Landscapes
Definitions
Review
100
A type of religion that spreads to different cultures, ethnicities across many different countries.
What is a universalizing religion?
100
Largest language family
What is Indo-European?
100
Language group of English!
What is West Germanic?
100
Grand Canyon is an example of this cultural landscape?
What is ethnographic landscape?
100
Define taboo.
Something that is forbidden culturally.
100
What allowed for the transition from stage 1 to stage 2 in the DTM?
What is the industrial revolution?
200
Which region is the cultural hearth for the three Abrahamic religions?
What is SW Asia?
What is the Middle East?
200
Largest 1st language spoken?
What is Mandarin?
200
Explain the significance of German and French to the English language.
The Angles and Saxons brought Germanic languages to England first, then England was conquered by the Normans (French) who brought many latin-based words.
200
Rank the 3 largest universalizing religions.
1. Christianity
2. Islam
3. Buddhism
200
Platforms like Tik-Tok and Instagram allow for ease of which form of diffusion?
Contagious Diffusion
200
What is Stage 3 of the DMT?
300
Which of the major universalizing religions is the newest (w/o Latter Day Saints)?
What is Islam?
300
Which language family is Hebrew and Arabic from?
What is Austro-Asiatic?
300
Latin and Old Church Slavonic are examples of?
What are Dead Languages?
300
Looking at cultures from an attempted unbiased perspective
What is cultural relativism?
300
Occurs when two cultures meet causing a change in the dominant culture.
What is acculturation?
300
The Bible Belt, Silicon Valley and other regions that are not officially defined.
What is vernacular region?
400
2 Largest Ethnic Religions?
What is Hinduism?
What is Judaism?
400
What do French, Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic all have in common?
They are all lingua francas!
400
Why does the Philippines have a large percentage of English speakers?
It was a colony of the United States!
400
An example is the Gettysburg Memorial
What is historical site?
400
Forces that cause a division within a country
Centrifugal Forces
400
The Portland Metro area would be an example of what type of region?
What is a nodal region?
500
Christianities spread from the Old World to the New World is an example of what phenomenon?
What is relocation diffusion?
500
Describe the relationship between isolation and diversity of languages in a region.
The more cultures are separated geographically, the more likely they are to develop their own language.
500
What is the significance of the pneumonic device "Ferris Bueller Got a Lucky Day"
Family
Branch
Group
Language
Dialect
500
Type of religion where nonliving things can have souls.
What is animism?
500
The continued living in an area over a long period of time by different cultures.
What is sequent occupancy?
500
The amount of humans are theorized to cap out at how many in 2100?
What is 11 billion?