Vocabulary
Religion
Geography
Hodge Podge
What's Going on?
100

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act

What is a Custom?

100

The belief that God does not exist.

What is agnosticism? 

100

Someone who work fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over a portion of the crops.

What are sharecroppers? 

100
The belief that inanimate objects such as plants and stone, or natural events have discrete spirits and conscious life. 

What is animism? 

100

Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region.

What is ethnic cleansing? 

200

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

What is a taboo? 
200

The three branches of Christianity. 

What is Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox? 

200

30% of Shiite Muslims live in these three countries. 

Where is Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq? 

200

The physical separation of different races into different areas. 

What is apartheid? 
200

The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

What is Balkanization? 

300

The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes. 

What is terroir? 

300
The combining of several traditions.

What is syncretic? 

300

Real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move in. 

What is blockbusting? 
300
Sikhism's first guru.
Who is Guru Nanak? 
300

Mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence.

What is genocide? 

400

A dialect spoken by African Americans. 

What is ebonics? 

400

The three branches of Buddhism. 

What is Mahayana, Theravada and Vajrayana? 

400
In 1991, a dictatorship in this country collapsed leading to various clans claiming control over parts of the country. 

Where is Somalia? 

400
The sacred spaces for Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists. (Hint: places of worship)

What is churches, mosques, and pagodas? 

400

Ethnic conflict between these two ethnic groups in Rwanda during the early 1990s.

Who are the Hutus and Tutsis? 

500

A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages. 

What is pidgin language? 

500

Religion meaning "the way" or "the path".

What is Taosim? 

500

Sudan's religion-based civil war was winding down, but an ethnic war erupted in this region.

Where is Darfur? 

500

The major language of the Afro-Asiatic family.

What is Arabic? 

500

The most popular leisure activity in the world.

What is watching TV?