Cultural Landscapes
The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape
Built enviornment
The region where a religion or ethnicity began
Culture Hearth
The spread of culture or cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them
Relocation Diffusion
Scientists who study languages
Linguists
The fusion or blending of two distinctive cultural traits into a unique new hybrid trait
Syncretism
This style reflects a local culture's history, beliefs, values, and community adaptations to the enviornment
Traditional Architecture
An attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious faith
Fundamentalism
The spread of cultural traits outward through exchange without migration
Expansion Diffusion
The unifying language of Latin diverged into dozens of distinct regional languages
Romance Languages
The coexistence of several cultures in one society with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worthy of study
Multiculturalism
Clusters of people of the same culture that are often surrounded by another, more dominant culture in the region
Believing your own cultural group is more important and superior to other cultures.
Ethnocentric
When a cultural traits spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people
Contagious Diffusion
The boundaries between variations in pronunciations or word usage
Isoglosses
This happens when an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group.
Assimilation
Regions determined based on characteristics like religion, language, and ethnicity
Cultural Regions
The action of adopting traits, icons, or other elements of another culture
Cultural Appropriation
The spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and influence. It may even go vice versa
Hierarchical Diffusion
A term used to describe the names of places
Toponyms
Person who is anti-immigrant
Nativist
This Ganges River for Hindus is considered this
Sacred Space
Countries whose governments are run by religious leaders through religious laws
Theocracies
When an underlying idea from a culture hearth is adopted by another culture but the adopting group modifies or rejects one trait
Stimulus Diffusion
Belief traditions that emphasize strong cultural characteristics among their followers
Ethnic Religions
An ethnic group moving to a new area adopts the values and practices of the larger group that has received them, while still maintaining valuable elements of their own culture
Acculturation