Basics of Culture
Geography
Diffusion
Religion
Language
Cultural Landscapes
100
A strong social or religious prohibition against consuming certain foods, such as eating pork in Islam or Judaism, is an example of this.
What is a taboo?
100
This type of diffusion occurs when an idea or innovation spreads through the physical movement of people from one location to another.
What is relocation diffusion?
100
This religion is polytheistic.
What is hinduism?
100
This is the world lingua franca.
What is English?
100
This is the term for the feeling when a place has no identifiable features.
What is placelessness?
200
This type of culture changes little over time. Examples include the Inuit and the people of North Sentinel Island.
What is folk/traditional culture?
200
This term means that a group of people migrated away from their ethnic homeland.
What is diaspora?
200
This is when a country occupies another country by force to take resources.
What is colonialism?
200
This is the term which means that a religion makes an effort to convert others to the religion.
What is universalizing?
200
This term means the boundary line between two different languages, dialects, or accents on a map.
What is an isogloss?
200
This is the term that describes the sense of decreased distance that comes with advanced technology, like phones and airplanes.
What is time-space compression?
300
This term is used to describe the beliefs of a culture. Examples include common religions and norms.
What is a mentifact?
300
This is a type of diffusion where a person of high power culturally influences people beneath them.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
300
This is the term that describes when someone makes a religious trip to a holy site.
What is a pilgrimage?
300
This is the name for the largest category of languages.
What is a language family?
300
Bathrooms and hair salons are examples of this.
What is a gendered space?
400
This is the term for a geographic space that is larger than a region, and contains people of similar ethnicity.
What is a cultural realm?
400
This is when someone relinquishes their culture completely to fit in to a new culture. It is often forced.
What is assimilation?
400
This is the type of religion that actively seeks people to convert.
What is universalizing?
400
A pidgin language becomes this when people begin to learn it as their native language.
What is a creole language?
400
This is when cultures leave imprints on the landscape, existing one after the other. One example is eating at a Pizza Hut in front of the Great Pyramids.
What is sequent occupancy?
500
When a fast food restaurant in India offers burgers with chicken instead of beef, it is this type of diffusion.
What is stimulus?
500
The architecture seen here belongs to this religion.
What is hinduism?
500
This is the term for a language that is a simplified version of a language spoken between two people who don't understand each other. It does not have a written form.
What is a pidgin language?
600
This is when someone keeps their original culture, but picks up additional cultural traits from a new culture over time.
What is acculturation?
600
These are all of the religions whose hearth is in the Middle East (name them all).
What are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism?
600
This is the second largest language family.
What is Sino-Tibetan?