The most geographically wide spread language FAMILY in the world.
What is Indo European?
100
The Hutterites and the _________ are both anababtist folk cultures. One of the main differences is the Hutterites will use modern technology if it helps their ability to make an agricultural living.
Who are the Amish?
100
Differences based on factors that are linked to a person's identification with a specific geographic origin or culture group, best defines this geographic concept.
What is ethnicity?
100
This is defined by the characteristics of a small, mostly homogeneous population, that is typically rural and has cohesive cultural traits.
What is folk (local) culture?
100
The bell shaped construction known as a stupa that can be seen all over Asia and is associated with this faith.
What is Buddhism?
200
When numerous languages exist is is usually and indicator of language ___________. A process of languages created by isolation and separation.
What is divergence
200
Term for the space where a cultural trait originates.
What is a hearth?
200
The Hutu and the Tutsi are conflicted ethnic groups in this Sub-Saharan country.
What is Rwanda?
200
This type of diffusion is exeplified by the spread of smart phone technology from the upper class to the middle class in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
What is heirarchical diffusion?
200
This faith has textual references that forbid the recreation of the human form, thus the cultural landscape might be marked by calligraphy and geometric arts.
What is Islam?
300
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Khoisan langauges are pretty cool with their clicks and clacks, however, the most important indigenous African language family is this.
What is Niger Congo?
300
A leagally dictated system of racial segregation. This type of system ended in South Africa in the early 1990s.
What is Apartheid?
300
Up until recently, the Tamil have been seeking autonomy in this South Asian island.
What is Sri Lanak?
300
The forced expulsion, resettlement, and killing of cultural groups through fear and violence. Such an action occured in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
What is ethnic clensing?
300
The idea that the environment influences but does NOT strictly limit how a culture develops or the cultural landscape appears is known as this.
What is possibilism?
400
Both the Angles and the Normans contributed to the language convergance that formed this language. They conquered the same place.
What is English?
400
If you were to map the regions of America where people use the terms flapjack, griddle cakes, pancakes, or dutch babies, you would be creating this kind of map.
What is an isogloss?
400
Ethnic conflict in this nation is between the Hausa-Fulani, Ibo, and Yoruba. However the root of the problem can be seen as a conflict over resources and power.
What is Nigeria?
400
This type of a region could be a store and a market region, the area of a particular service, or a city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is a functional (nodal) region?
400
When there are few religious indicators in the cultural landscape, there can be an assuption made that the society is probably very _____________.
What is secularized?
500
The language in the world with the most speakers.
What is Mandarin?
500
When Indians were relocated within the British Empire during the colonial period, this religion diffused to places like Guyana, Fiji, and South Africa.
What is Hinduism?
500
Once this nation broke apart in the early 1990s, 15 new republics were created, often based around ethinc identity.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
A cultural boundry created between a different denominations of the same faith. An example is the split in Northern Ireland between protestants and Catholics.
What is an Intrafaith boundary?
500
The term for the observable "layers" of different cultures in the build environment of a region.