World Religions
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The most popular and widely dispersed religion in the world today
What is Christianity?
100
A language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught
What is a standard language?
100
The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a certain party or incumbent
What is gerrymandering?
100
The flags of Algeria, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey all contain this religious symbol
What is the Muslim crescent?
100
The name for a place name
What is a toponym?
200
The world's second-largest religion is known for its five pillars and is found primarily in North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia and Indonesia
What is Islam?
200
A variant of a standard language along a regional or cultural line
What is a dialect?
200
System in which each representative is elected from a geographically defined district
What is territorial representation?
200
The flags of Norway, Georgia, Malta and Sweden all contain this religious symbol
What is the Christian cross?
200
The systematic killing of an entire people
What is ethnic cleansing?
300
This religion sprung from its hearth in Nepal and the Ganges River Valley after Siddhartha, a wealthy prince, spoke out against the misery around him
What is Buddhism?
300
A language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce
What is a lingua franca?
300
The process by which district boundaries are redrawn according to population shifts
What is reapportionment?
300
The flags of Angola, China, Mozambique and Vietnam contain symbols of this political system
What is Communism?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
What is a unitary government?
400
The oldest major religion in the world today, this polytheistic religion began in the Indus River Valley
What is Hinduism?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
What is a pidgin language?
400
Reapportionment strategy designed to dilute the minority vote among several districts
What is splitting?
400
The flags of Jordan, Kuwait, Libya and Sudan belong to this flag family
What is Pan-Arab or Arab Liberation?
400
The breakup of a language into dialects and then new languages due to lack of interaction among speakers
What is language divergence?
500
The local ethnic religion of Japan focuses on nature and ancestral worship
What is Shintoism?
500
A pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of people
What is a Creole language?
500
Electoral districts that are drawn so that the majority of the population is from the minority
What are majority-minority districts?
500
The flags of Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana and Zimbabwe belong to this flag family
What is Pan-African?
500
Type of boundary based on a grid system such as latitude and longitude
What is a geometric boundary?
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