Religions
An ethnic religion that arose a few thousand years ago in South Asia and is closely tied to India.
What is Hinduism.
How many types of relocation is there.
What is 1
The visible objects and technologies a culture creates.
What is Artifacts.
The process by which traits from two or more cultures blend together to form a new custom, idea, value, or behavior.
What is Syncretism.
A religion that is closely tied with a particular ethnic group living in a particular place.
What is a Ethnic Religion.
The world’s first monotheistic religion, which developed among the Hebrew people of Southwest Asia about 4,000 years ago.
What is Judaism.
When a person migrates from their home and shares their culture with a new location.
What is relocation.
The widespread behaviors, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people in society at a given point in time.
What is popular culture.
The process by which conflicting beliefs or other barriers cause two cultures to become less similar.
What is Cultural divergence.
A religion that tries to appeal to all humans and is open to membership by everyone.
What is a universalizing religion.
A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Muhammad that originated in the hearth of Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century.
What is Islam.
Cultural ideas or values spread from one person to another through interactions, and can quickly affect entire populations.
What is Contagious.
The tendency of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according to preconceived ideas originating from their own culture.
What is Ethnocentrism.
When people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another while still retaining their own distinct culture.
What is Acculturation.
A group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth, or region of origin
What is a language family.
The oldest universalizing religion, which arose from a hearth in northeastern India some time between the mid-sixth and mid-fourth centuries B.C.E. and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha.
What is Buddhism.
Where an idea or innovation from one culture spreads and changes as it's adopted by other cultures. The original idea stimulates a new innovation.
What is Stimulus.
The beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society and passed down from generation to generation.
What is culture.
A category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture adopting almost all the customs, traditions, language, and other cultural traits of the other.
What is Assimilation.
A collection of languages within a language family that share a common origin and separated from other branches in the same family several thousand years ago.
What is a language branch.
The newest universalizing religion; founded by Guru Nanak, who lived from 1469 to 1539, in the Punjab region of northwestern India.
What is Sikhism.
When a cultural element spreads from a specific group to a larger group within a society. It's characterized by the spread of culture from influential places to less influential areas, and from top to bottom across social classes.
What is Hierarchical.
The carrier of human thoughts and cultural identities, is a distinct system of communication and usually has a literary tradition, or some written form.
What is Language.
This often occurs in large cities, people share some cultural traits with those around them while retaining some of their original cultural traits.
What is multiculturalism.
Languages within a language branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past and have vocabularies with a high degree of overlap.
What is a language group.