types of cultural diffusion
artifacts/sosiofacts/mentafacts
cultural landscapes
dialects
language groups/families
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a person from France moves to the USA and opens a French restaurant. this is an example of...

relocation diffusion

100

a book a mother wrote to help put her kids to bed is a...

artifact

100

An ancient city in south east Asia build a large tempol in a jungle. this is an example of a...

religious landscape

100

Why might a person from Japan have a harder timespeaking japanese after living in America for a couple years.

they likely did not hear/have a need to speak the language while in America and started to forget it/ mix it with English

100

which language branch is Italian in

the romance branch

200

there is a COVID outbreak in a small town in Brazil and many people in the town all of a sudden start to wear masks. this is an example of...

contagious diffusion

200

in asian cultures, caring for the old is important. this is an example of a...

mentifact

200

a farmer in Vietnam builds a series of terraces on his farm to grow rice better. this is an example of a...

agricultural landscape

200

Why might someone from New Zealand have a strange way of saying the word beaver

they likely have not seen an actual beaver and likely have not heard it said a lot and would either pronounce it differently or say it differently

200
where did language likely originate from

Africa

300

a musician is seen wearing a shirt from a certain brand and many of his/her fans buy from said brand. this is an example of...

hierarchal diffusion

300

one family in america has a tradition of giving each other gifts on Easter. this is a...

sosiofact

300
A group of people in ancient England stack a large amount of stones into a pile for future generations to know about their ancestors. this is an example of a...

signs of sequent occupancy land scape

300

many _____  languages developed in the roman empire as Latin was combined with the local languages 

pidgin

300

what is the only Germanic lingua franka

english

400

A town in rural Mexico has a wildly different culture then the rest of Mexico and Latin America however they still speak Spanish. this is an example of...

stimulus diffusion

400

in almost all cultures cooking/eating is a family experience. this is a... 

mentifact

400

an architect in Egypt creates a building using pre-colonization techniques to represent their past. this is an example of...

architectural landscape

400

why did Noah Webbster change so many words in his dictionary

so that American English would be distinct from British English

400

which language trunk only spoken in a small town in rural India likely be

the indo Iranian trunk

500

A group of Dutch colonizers arrive in a small island the Netherlands owns and teach the people there Dutch. this is an example of...

expansion diffusion

500

a wrist watched that has been passed down from father to son for generations is a...

sosiofact

500

A city in china redirects a river to be closer to them so they can harbor more people. this is an example of a...

urban landscape

500

why might a shop owner from NewYork speak faster then a farmer from rural Georgia

the person from NewYork may have to speak faster in such a fast pace, busy environment compared to the farmer.

500

Why might some one from Romania have an easier time speaking French then someone from Turkey

Romanian and French are both romance langaudges and share many simular bases.

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