Cultural Diffusion
This term means the spread of ideas, beliefs, foods, or customs from one culture to another.
cultural diffusion?
This country is located in South Asia.
india
Communist governments often control television and movies to do this.
propaganda
South Africa once had this system of racial separation.
apartheid
Australia is located in this hemisphere south of the equator.
Southern Hemisphere
This religion spread from India to China and Japan along trade routes like the Silk Road.
Buddhism
Afghanistan is located in this region of Asia.
SW asia
In countries like Russia and Iran, candidates are often this before elections.
pre-selected
This leader helped end apartheid and later became president of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela?
Australia was colonized by this European country.
Britain (United Kingdom)?
The Silk Road is an example of this because it spread goods, ideas, and religions between cultures.
cultural diffusion?
Most of China’s population lives in this part of the country because of fertile land and water access
eastern China
In democratic governments, citizens do this to choose leaders.
vote
European countries such as Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal colonized these two continents.
Africa and South America?
Australia originally served as this type of colony for Britain.
prison colony
Give one example of how cultural diffusion has affected a culture.
new foods, religions, clothing styles, languages, architecture, or technology spreading between cultures.
People often settle near these because they provide fertile soil and transportation.
rivers
There is usually a connection between literacy rates and this economic measurement.
GDP
South Africa is successful in mining because it has many of these natural resources.
minerals
The interior of Australia is sparsely populated mostly because of this factor.
climate
This famous trade route began in China and connected Asia to Europe.
Answer: What is the Silk Road?
This waterway is important because it transports large amounts of oil through Southwest Asia.
Strait of Hormuz
The higher the literacy rate of a country, the ______ the GDP tends to be
higher
This economic activity is strongly connected to South Africa’s mineral wealth.
mining
The Maori are the indigenous people of this country.
New Zealand?