Religion 1
A type of religion that spreads to different cultures, ethnicities across many different countries.
What is a universalizing religion?
Largest language family
What is Indo-European?
the process by which elements of different cultures are blended together to create new cultures particularly languages
What is Creolization?
These types of barriers totally halts the spread of an innovation.
What is an absorbing barrier?
ex. a harsh political regime, natural landform like a mountain
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them.
What allowed for the transition from stage 1 to stage 2 in the DTM?
What is the industrial revolution?
Which region is the cultural hearth for the three Abrahamic religions?
What is SW Asia?
What is the Middle East?
Largest 1st language spoken?
What is Mandarin?
Explain the significance of German and French to the English language.
The Angles and Saxons brought Germanic languages to England first, then England was conquered by the Normans (French) who brought many latin-based words.
What kind of culture appeals to large heterogenous groups?
What kind of culture appeals to small homogenous groups?
What is popular culture?
What is folk Culture?
Platforms like Tik-Tok and Instagram allow for ease of which form of diffusion?
Contagious Diffusion
What is the name for the Pilgrimage taken to Mecca by adherents of Islam?
What is the Hajj?
Which of the major universalizing religions is the newest (w/o Latter Day Saints)?
What is Islam?
Which language family is Hebrew and Arabic from?
What is Austro-Asiatic?
Latin and Old Church Slavonic are examples of?
What are Dead Languages?
Looking at cultures from an attempted unbiased perspective
What is cultural relativism?
Occurs when two cultures meet causing a change in the dominant culture.
What is acculturation?
What is vernacular region?
What is Hinduism?
What is Judaism?
What do French, Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic all have in common?
They are all lingua francas!
Why does the Philippines have a large percentage of English speakers?
It was a colony of the United States!
An example is the Gettysburg Memorial
What is historical site?
Forces that cause a division within a country
Centrifugal Forces
Jollibee is a fast-food restaurant that started in the Philippines but can now be worldwide even here in Dallas. This is an example of what kind of diffusion?
What is reverse hierarchical diffusion?
What is relocation diffusion?
Describe the relationship between isolation and diversity of languages in a region.
The more cultures are separated geographically, the more likely they are to develop their own language.
What is it called when a language is wiped out within a short amount of time?
What is sudden-language death?
Type of religion where nonliving things can have souls.
What is animism?
The continued living in an area over a long period of time by different cultures.
What is sequent occupancy?
Yiddish, Picard, Romani, Lombard, Ligurian, Campidanese, and Tamaceq are all examples of what kind of languages?
What is endangered languages?