Language
Religion
Folk Culture
Vocab
100

All the following are in the Indo-European language family EXCEPT:

A: Portuguese 

B: Bengali

C: German 

D: Hindi 

E: Turkish 

What is E, Turkish?

100

What is fundamentalism?

What is when someone follows the doctrine word for word? (can often lead to extremism)

100

The type of folk housing built depends on ________.

(there are multiple possible answers)

What is the environmental conditions in the area/ number of people living in the house/ cultural traditions/practices.

100

Define the term "Centrifugal force". 

Bonus point provide an example

What is an action or thing that separates a community.

Diverse languages and religions

200

Define literary tradition.

bonus question: What do you call a language that doesn't have a literary tradition?

What is when a language has a written form?

bonus question answer: Vigorous language

200

Define the term "taboo."

Provide examples of taboos in Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, and Hinduism.

What is a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing. 

Judaism: eating pork, shellfish, harshly slaughtering an animal, etc.

Islam: eating pork, alcohol, harshly slaughtering an animal, etc.

Mormonism: consuming alcohol

Hinduism: beef

200

Folk cultures are spread primarily by ______

A: Stimulus diffusion

B: Hierarchal diffusion

C: Contagious diffusion

D: Reverse-hierarchal diffusion

E: Relocation Diffusion


What is E?

200

Define language Creolization and provide a reason why this may occur.

Definition: A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

300

What regions are languages in the Indo-European language family most used?

bonus question: How many branches are in this language family?

What is Europe, South Asia, North America, and Latin America?

bonus question answer: It has 8 branches.

300

Which of the following originated in South Asia and subsequently spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia?

A: Hinduism

B: Christianity

C: Buddhism

D: Sikhism

E: Confucianism


What is C, Buddhism?

300

What are the three major hearths of folk housing in the US?

bonus question: Who identified these hearths?

What is New England, Middle Atlantic, and Lower Chesapeake and Tidewater?

bonus question answer: Fred Kniffen

bonus info: they diffused Westward

300

Which type of diffusion occurs when a cultural trait spreads continuously outwards from its hearth through contact among people?

What is contagious diffusion?

(ex: blues, jazz)

400

What are the top 5 native languages?

bonus question: Define a native language.

What are Mandarin, Spanish, English, Hindu/Urdu, and Arabic?

bonus question answer: the first language that someone learns to speak

400

Name 2 examples of a universalizing religion.

Name 2 examples of an ethnic religion.

What is Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.?

What is Hindu, Judaism, etc.

400

What type of folk house is shown below and what region is it from?

What is dogtrot and the Southeastern United States?

400

An essential difference between the standard language of a people and an official language is that the standard language is

A: the chosen, generally accepted variant of a language, while the official language is the legally declared language of a country to be used in all government interactions 

B: usually spoken by outsiders, while the official language is what is on all official documents 

C: the form spoken by commoners, while the official language is the “king’s form” of the language, taught in the grammar books 

D: used widely throughout society, while the official language is only used for government documents 

E: unchanging, while the official language changes with changes in governments

What is A?

500

Which theory theorizes that that the Kurgan people were one of the first people to domesticate horses and spread their language through searching for grassland?

What is the nomadic warrior theory?

500

Which of the following religions' hearth is in Iran? (multiple answers possible)

A: Baha'i

B: Cao Dai

C: Spiritism

D: Zoroastrianism

E: Juche

What are A and D?

500

Describe the effects of globalization on folk culture. Give an example 


Bonus points use vocab terms

Globalization spreads popular culture and therefore creates a more homogenous world where cultural differences tend to lessen. This can result in the loss of folk languages, clothing, food, housing, and music

500

What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation?

Acculturation is adopting SOME characteristics of a culture while keeping some aspects of the original culture, but assimilation makes it so that it is difficult to distinguish the assimilated person from the new group.