Language
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?
What is fundamentalism?
What is when someone follows the doctrine word for word? (can often lead to extremism)
laws implemented by governments to discourage population growth and reduce birth rates.
Anti-natalist Policy
Define the term "Centrifugal force".
Bonus point provide an example
What is an action or thing that separates a community.
Diverse languages and religions
The United Nations is a ________ Organization.
Bonus Points: Give a pro and a con for joining a _____ organization.
What is Supranational?
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
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
the theory that population growth is growing exponentially, faster than food production, eventually leading to a crisis of famine and war.
Malthusian Theory or Thomas Malthus
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.
A super imposed or a geometric boundary can lead to conlfict due to....
What is ignoring cultural boundaries?
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.
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?
individuals who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict, violence, human rights violations, or natural disasters but remain within their country's borders.
internally displaced persons
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)
What type fo gerrymandering is it when like Minded voters are clumped together to form a minority district
Packing
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
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.
what is consequence of an aging population in a stage 5 country?
decline in working class, extended retirement age, resources needed to support elderly
(answers may vary)
Explain the role of Colonization in Africa's constant state of war and poverty. Use vocab words for bonus points
What are superimposed boundaries drawn to ease exports/extarction of raw materials. What is Wallerstein's World System's Theory?
What is sovereignty?
a fully independent state
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?
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?
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
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.
What is devolution?
the separation of power from a centralized government to a regional goverment