Mix n Match
This is the make-up of a society's values, religion, language, traditions, customs, perspectives, land use, architecture, and more.
What is culture?
This is the process of adopting only certain customs of a new culture
What is acculturation?
This is the largest religion in the world.
What is Christianity?
Name 2 universalizing religions.
Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism
What is Indo-European?
These are historical causes of diffusion. (2)
What are colonialism/imperialism and trade?
The spread of an idea, trend, or belief is called this.
What is diffusion?
This city is claimed by all three of the Abrahamic, montheistic religions.
What is Jerusalem?
This religion spread through relocation, conquest and trade in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Asia.
What is Islam?
This is a type of religion with a rather concentrated distribution, that does not actively seek new followers
What is an ethnic religion?
Religions can be broken into these two types based on how they grow and diffuse.
What are universalizing and ethnic?
The process of less dominant cultures completely losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is assimilation?
The oldest religion in the world, views the Ganges River as sacred, adheres to the caste system, located in South Asia.
What is Hinduism?
This means belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Relocation diffusion
"Sino-Tibetan" is an example of this.
What is a language family?
What is ethnocentrism?
The followers of this religion that begain in South Asia seek to attain "enlightenment"
What is Buddhism?
What is Jewish diaspora?
What is lingua franca?
Human changes to the natural environment result in this.
What is a cultural landscape?
This term refers to such the sucession of different cultures' lasting imprints on the same landscape
What is sequent occupancy?
A universalizing religion that believes in equality of all people, began in the Punjab region of India, and has gurus as leaders.
What is Sikhism?
The hearth of Islam. (specific!)
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?