Definitions
Language
Cultural Traits
Diffusion
Cultural Patterns
100

Colonialism

The act of forcefully controlling a foreign territory, which becomes known as a colony.

100

Spanish, French, or Italian for example

What is a Romance Language

100

Dress, art, or food for example

What is Material Culture

100

Migrants moving from one location to the next

What is Relocation Diffusion

100

A geographic area where important innovations are born from and spread

What is a Hearth

200

Popular culture

Heterogeneous culture that is more influenced by
key urban areas and quick to adopt new technologies

200

A regional variation of a language

What is Dialect

200

A type of religious landscape that is recognized as worth of devotion, loyalty, fear, or esteem

What is Sacred Spaces

200

A small group of wealthy people know when the stock market will crash

What is Hierarchical Diffusion

200

Structures and places can change meaning over time

What is Sequent Occupancy

300

Secular

Less influenced or controlled by religion

300

A group of related languages that share a common ancestry.

What is a Language family

300

A group of people with distinct norms, values, and material practices that differentiate them from the dominant culture surrounding them.

What is Subculture

300

A Tiktok audio trend that spread by people using it, hearing it, and sharing it

What is Contagious Diffusion

300

Widespread and ancient religion that is typically the minority religion in the country it resides

What is Judaism

400

Folk (Local) culture

Rural, ethnically homogenous culture that is
deeply connected to the local land

400

A common global lingua franca due to trade and business

What is English

400

A landscape that often differs from the dominant culture with distinctive markers about its identity

What is an Ethnic Landscape

400

Chinese porcelain was too expensive, so Europeans created an alternative material to use

What is Stimulus Diffusion

400

The loss of a locations unique character, making it feel generic and indistinguishable from any other place

What is Placelessness