Cultural Geography
________ are behaviors that are heavily discouraged by a specefic culture.
Taboos
Characteristics, such as a common language or religion, that unify a country and provide stability.
Centripetal Forces
The spread of cultural traits, knowledge, ideas, or trends from hearths to other geographic areas.
Diffusion
This is a person who studies languages?
Linguist
This is a form of government in which religious leaders hold political power.
Theocracy
Houses, cars, or physical objects that humans create are examples of what?
Material Culture/ Artifacts
A group of people who share a common history, culture, language, or even ancestry; not the same as race.
Ethnicity
A cultural trait spreads rapidly, widely, and continuously from its hearth through close contact between people.
Contagious Diffusion
___________ shows the relationship among language families and suggests how they are related.
Language Tree
When followers believe that people should live traditional lifestyles similar to those prescribed in the faith’s holy writings, this is an example of what?
Fundamentalism
Judging other cultures based on your own cultural views is an example of what?
Ethnocentrism
Characteristics, like competing religions or ethnicities, that divide a country and create instability, conflict and violence.
Centrifugal Forces
Europeans migrating to the Americas, spreading their religion and languages, is what kind of diffusion?
Relocation Diffusion
Nearly half of the world’s population speaks one of the languages that are part of the ______________ language family.
Indo-European
This is the religion that follows the 5 pillars. (Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting, Pilgrimage)
Islam
Democracy originating in ancient Greece or rap music starting in New York City are examples of what?
Cultural Hearths
This infrastructure project altered the American cultural landscape by connecting isolated regional cultures and accelerating national integration.
Transcontinental Railroad
This type of diffusion is a result of wealthy or influential people doing something, and it spreading down to others.
Hierarchical Diffusion
_____________ is a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
Lingua Franca
Which ethnic religion has the largest number of followers?
Hinduism
What are the three components that form the definition of culture?
Shared Beliefs, Customs & Traditions, and Daily Behaviors
This reflects how humans have physically impacted the natural world.
Cultural Landscape
This happens when one culture abandons their culture in order to adopt another culture.
Assimilation
Give an example of how a language can serve as a centrifugal force using one of the examples we discussed.
Basque, Catalonia, Quebecois
Name the three universalizing religions.
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism