Universalizing Religion
Ethnic Religion
Religious Landscape
Language & Culture
Language Diffusioin
100
A religion that actively seeks converts
What is a unversalizing religion?
100
Religion that is closely tied to a specific ethnic group.
What is ethnic religion?
100
Place of worship or teaching
What is a church?
100
Set of mutual intellgable sounds and symbols that are used for communication
What is language?
100
Countries in which more then one language is in use
What is a multilingual state?
200
The dominant religion of the world
What is Christianity?
200
The third largest religion
What is Hinduism?
200
The Ganges River in India
What is Hinduism?
200
The most spoken language in the world
What is English?
200
Countries in which more than one language is in use
What is multilingual states?
300
The founder of Buddhism
Who is Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddah)?
300
Believe that inanimate objects have spirits and should be revered
What is Animism?
300
Important city to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
What is Jerusalem?
300
25 states declare this as their official language of the State
What is English?
300
Early speakers of Proto-Indo European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion of Indo-European tongues
What is the conquest theory?
400
The religion that splintered from Hinduism
What is Buddhism?
400
The Wailing Wall is very important to this religion
What is Judiasm?
400
City of Mecca
What is Islam?
400
This province of Canada focuses on passing laws that promote the use of provinces district version of this
What is Quebec?
400
These two languages are important unifying forces in a linguistically divided world
What is a pidgin and creole language?
500
The youngest of the 3 largest monotheistic religions
What is Islam?
500
The oldest monotheistic religion
What is Zoroastrian?
500
Buildings to house relics and artifacts or entomb a leader
What are pagodas, temples & pyramids?
500
A major force in preserving local and national culture
What is preserving language?
500
process of convergence in which the tongue of the Franks was a mixture of Italian, Greek, Spanish, and Arabic
What is lingua franca?