Types of Diffusion
Religious Diffusion
The Columbian Exchange
Language
Effects of Diffusion
100

These are the two types of diffusion. 

What are relocation and expansion diffusion?
100

The Crusades happened because of the diffusion of these two religion's ideas into each other. 

What are Christianity and Islam?

100

The moment Columbus and the Taino met and exchanged ideas is an example of this type of cultural diffusion.

What is relocation diffusion?

100

This bird-sounding name of a type of language is helpful when two groups of people need to have basic communication and they do not share a common language. 

What are pidgin languages?

100

This effect of cultural diffusion occurs when a person or group has fully taken on the cultural traits of a dominant culture. This usually takes two or three generations of cultural diffusion to occur. 

What is assimilation?

200

This type of expansion diffusion occurs when ideas spread through direct contact with other people. 

What is contagious diffusion?
200

This is evidence that suggests that religious diffusion is NOT responsible for the conflict of the Crusades.

What is Pope Urban II asked the kings of Europe to send armies to defend Constantinople?

200

This is one thing that diffused from the Old World to the New World during the Columbian Exchange. 

What is (livestock, bananas, peaches, pears, oranges, grain, coffee, disease)?

200

This is a type of language that a wide variety of cultures speak in order to communicate and diffuse ideas on a world-wide scale. 

What is a lingua franca?

200

This effect of cultural diffusion occurs when two cultures meet and are equally blended together, creating a new culture with characteristics of each original culture in the new one. This commonly happens with religious diffusion. 

What is syncretism?

300

This type of expansion diffusion occurs when an influential person spreads ideas, styles, or fashions to others. 

What is hierarchical diffusion? 

300

This is evidence that religious diffusion is NOT responsible for the violence in India in 1947.

What is Muslims and Hindus lived peacefully in India for centuries before the British colonized them?

300

This is one thing that diffused from the New World to the Old World because of the Columbian Exchange. 

What is (pumpkin, tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes, pineapple, turkey, corn)?

300

This lingua franca was responsible for diffusing ancient Roman culture across Europe, Asia, and Africa. 

What is Latin?

300

This is the description of acculturation. 

What is when one dominant culture's characteristics begin to be accepted by another culture in a limited way?

400

Permeable barriers help this type of expansion diffusion to happen. 

What is stimulus diffusion?

400

The Partition of India separated these two religions into three different countries. 

What is Islam and Hinduism?

400

This is a positive effect of the Columbian Exchange. 

What is new ideas and items were spread across the world for the first time?

400

This language is the most common lingua franca in the world.

What is English?

400

This effect of diffusion most commonly occurs when two religion's ideas diffuse into each other.

What is syncretism?

500

This is an example of an absorption barrier to expansion diffusion. 

What are (mountains, oceans, walls, laws, religious norms)?

500

The Partition of India forced Muslims to resettle into one of these two countries. 

What is Pakistan or Bangladesh?

500

This is a negative effect of the Columbian Exchange. 

What is diseases brought to the New World wiped out most of the native population of North and South America?

500

This is an advantage that a lingua franca has over a pidgin language. 

What is the ability to communicate above a basic level (business, religion, cultural diffusion)?

500

This is a reason why many cultures push back on assimilation. 

What is many people do not want to see their culture die out?

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