Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
100
__________ is a system of communication through speech.
Language
100
Which religion is the most widely dispersed over the world, with a wide variety of interpretations?
Christianity
100
Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country is _________.
Nationality
100
An area organized into an independent political unit is a _________.
State
200
This language serves as the official language of more countries than any other.
English
200
Religion can be classified within two major categories: __________ and _________
Universalizing Religion and Ethnic Religion
200
What's the difference between race and ethnicity?
Race refers to the concept of dividing people into groups based on various sets of physical characteristics such as skin color, hair type, and shape of head.
Ethnicity describes the culture of people in a given geographic region, including their language, heritage, religion and customs.
200
Name 2 reasons why countries might compete or go to war with each other.
Gaining control of territory
Resources
Religion and ethnicity
Alliance commitments
Political ideologies
Disputed borders
Self-defense
300
What are isolated languages?
An isolated language is a language that is unrelated to any others and therefore not attached to any language.
300
What is a caste system?
Which religion uses it?
A caste system assigns everyone to a distinct class or hereditary order when they are born.
Hindu.
300
Emigration of Whites from an area Blacks are anticipated to move to is known as ________.
White Flight
300
Define terrorism.
The use of violence, intimidation, or the threat of force to create fear or coerce a population, typically for political, ideological, or religious purposes.
400
Name the two largest language families.
Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan.
400
Define monotheism, polytheism, atheism, and agnosticism.
Monotheism is the belief in only one God, polytheism is the belief of more than one god(s), atheism is the belief that God does not exist, and agnosticism is the belief that the existence of God cannot be proven.
400
What's the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide?
Ethnic cleansing is when a more powerful ethnic group forces a less powerful group to leave a certain region so it can become an ethnically homogenous region. Genocide is a mass killing of a group of people in attempt to completely eliminate that group from existence.
400
List the 5 shapes of states.
1. Compact state
2. Elongated state
3. Prorupted state
4. Perforated state
5. Fragmented
500
An _______ is a boundary line separating distinct dialectical differences in word choice.
isogloss
500
Name one characteristic of hierarchical religions.
-It has a well-defined geographic structure.
-It organizes territory into local administrative units.
-It fosters interaction among different congregations.
-Regional administration is located in large cities.
500
Name one similarity between the apartheid in South Africa and the Jim Crow laws in America.
- Both were based on a “white supremacist” order
- Both required racial classification at birth and the carrying of identification by blacks
- Both resulted in blacks living in poverty-stricken conditions
- Both lasted a very long time and the impacts of these systems still linger today.
Both systems enforced strict racial segregation, with separate facilities for whites and non-whites, such as separate schools, public transportation, and public facilities.
Both systems restricted the civil rights of non-white populations, limiting their political participation, access to education, and economic opportunities.
500
What shape is the state of Thailand?
Prorupted state
500
The United Nations is an example of what?
Supranational organization