Cultural Regions and Language
Ethnic Regions
World Religions and Cultural Regions
Vocab of Unit 6
100

This word is used to describe French-speaking people or countries

What is Francophone?

100

The country that gained complete independence from China

What is Taiwan?

100

This term means belief in many gods

What is Polytheism?

100

This term means a person who remains firm in their support for a government or ruler

What is loyalist?

200

This area represents mostly Spanish-speaking people

What is Latin America?

200

Examples of Ethnic heritage groups

What are 

1) Chinatown

2) Little Italy

200

The holy book of Hinduism

What is the "Four Vedas"?

200

This term refers to a center where cultures developed and from which ideas spread

What is Cultural Hearth?

300

The dominant languages in Canada

What are

1) French

2) English

300

The 2 things that support the Arab regions

What are

1) Oil

2) farming

300

The countries where Buddhism is most practiced

What are Southeast Asia and China?

300

This term means the expansion of many businesses into markets throughout the world

What is globalization?

400

The most spoken languages in Switzerland

What are

1) German

2) French

3) Italian

4) Romansh

400

The two groups that were fighting for control in Rwanda

Who are the Hutus and Tutsis?

400

The 3 holy sites in Jerusalem

What are 

1) The Holy Sepulcher

2) The Dome of the Rock

3) The Wailing Wall

400

This term means connected with or relating to different racial or cultural groups of people

What is ethnicity (ethnic)?

500

Examples of cultural characteristics

What are 

1) language

2) ethnic Heritage

3) religion

4) economic

5) political

500

The reason most people say the Rwandan conflict started

What is the president was killed in a plane crash and the Tutsis?

500

The five major world religions

What are 

1) Hinduism

2) Buddhism

3) Christianity

4) Islam 

5) Judaism

500

This term means a group of people that has separated from a larger group and has a particular set of religious or political beliefs

What is a sect?