Definitions
Colonialism
The act of forcefully controlling a foreign territory, which becomes known as a colony.
Spanish, French, or Italian for example
What is a Romance Language
Dress, art, or food for example
What is Material Culture
Migrants moving from one location to the next
What is Relocation Diffusion
A geographic area where important innovations are born from and spread
What is a Hearth
Popular culture
Heterogeneous culture that is more influenced by
key urban areas and quick to adopt new technologies
A regional variation of a language
What is Dialect
A type of religious landscape that is recognized as worth of devotion, loyalty, fear, or esteem
What is Sacred Spaces
A small group of wealthy people know when the stock market will crash
What is Hierarchical Diffusion
Structures and places can change meaning over time
What is Sequent Occupancy
Secular
Less influenced or controlled by religion
A group of related languages that share a common ancestry.
What is a Language family
A group of people with distinct norms, values, and material practices that differentiate them from the dominant culture surrounding them.
What is Subculture
A Tiktok audio trend that spread by people using it, hearing it, and sharing it
What is Contagious Diffusion
Widespread and ancient religion that is typically the minority religion in the country it resides
What is Judaism
Folk (Local) culture
Rural, ethnically homogenous culture that is
deeply connected to the local land
A common global lingua franca due to trade and business
What is English
A landscape that often differs from the dominant culture with distinctive markers about its identity
What is an Ethnic Landscape
Chinese porcelain was too expensive, so Europeans created an alternative material to use
What is Stimulus Diffusion
The loss of a locations unique character, making it feel generic and indistinguishable from any other place
What is Placelessness