Intro to Culture#1
The cornerstone of culture.
What is language?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
A person whose job is to buy, sell & trade goods.
What is a merchant?
The worship of one God.
What is monotheism?
An important outward display of culture.
What are customs?
How people use limited resources to satisfy their wants and needs.
What is an economic system?
This allows communication of information and experience and to pass on cultural beliefs and traditions.
What is language?
The most costly good on the Silk Road.
What were camels?
A regional variety of a language with unique features, such as vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation.
What is dialect?
An example of a custom.
What is a handshake, kissing on the cheeks, bowing to others, good manners, and hugs?
Ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society.
What is Culture?
A group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural background.
What is an ethnic group?
A 5,000 mile trade route that stretched from China to Mesopotamia in the Middle East.
What is the Silk Road?
Enforced ideas of right and wrong usually passed down by family members.
What are rules of behavior?
This is where most of the sports that we play today originated.
What is ancient Japan, China, Greece, and Rome?
Arts and literature, such as art, music, literature, and folk tales.
What are products of human imagination?
Respect and value for their wisdom.
What is treatment of the elderly?
The process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society, share culture, and function together.
What is globalization?
This influences style of dress, dance, eating habits, and celebrations.
What are customs and traditions?
Name two important elements of culture.
What are dance, music, visual arts, and literature?
Name three (3) elements of culture.
What are 1) customs and traditions 2) language 3) arts and literature 4) religion 5) forms of government 6) economic systems?
Name three (3) things that are a part of culture.
What are clothes, music, and foods?
The exchanging of goods and ideas from one culture to another usually done through trade and/or war.
What is cultural diffusion?
Supports values that groups of people feel are important.
What is Religion?
When your family has strong ties to a culture, such as that of a religion or a nation, that your family follows its traditions at home. You might also follow a more mainstream American culture while at school and with friends.
What is being part of more than one culture/multiculturalism?