This form of identity is based on identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor.
What is race?
100
This is a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
100
This is the name for a large and fundamental division within a religion.
What is a branch?
100
__________ is the mix of values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects that form a people’s way of life.
What is culture?
100
A _________ is the central location where some aspect of culture begins and from which it spreads.
What is a hearth?
200
Also called a nation, this is identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
What is ethnicity?
200
A __________ language is a simplified version of a language.
What is a pidgin language?
200
Roman Catholicism is an example of this type of religion that has a well-defined structure and organizes territory into local administrative units.
What is a hierarchical religion?
200
The built environment and physical artifacts produced by a people are the __________.
What is material culture?
200
Identity with a group of people based on legal status is ___________.
What is nationality?
300
The process in which a dominant ethnic group forcibly removes a less dominant ethnic group from a region is called what?
What is ethnic cleansing?
300
Today, English is rapidly becoming the dominant language of world communication, also known as the _____________.
What is lingua franca?
300
Religions that appeal primarily to one group of people living in one place are called ___________.
What are ethnic religions?
300
The language used by a country's government for official documents and public objects is the _____________.
What is official language?
300
In this type of religion, each community is largely self-sufficient and only loosely cooperates with other communities of the same religion.
What is an autonomous religion?
400
A country that contains more than one ethnicity is known as a ___________.
What is a multi-ethnic state?
400
A _________ language is a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the local language of the colonized people.
What is a creole language?
400
A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe is known as __________.
What is cosmogony?
400
This is the process of immigrants or conquered peoples completely losing their native customs and adopting all the cultural aspects of the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
400
A language that is unrelated to any other languages (and thus is not part of any language family) is known as this.
What is an isolated language?
500
This is the idea that each ethnicity has the right to govern itself.
What is self-determination?
500
The line between where certain vocabulary is and isn’t used is called __________.
What is an isogloss?
500
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism are all examples of this type of religion that attempts to be global and appeal to all people.
What is universalizing religion?
500
A country that contains multiple ethnic groups that coexist by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities is called a ____________.
What is multinational state?
500
This is the name given to a language that is both written and spoken.