3.7 Flashcards
Lang family
Largest way to categorize connected languages. They have similar ancestry ad trace back to a common hearth
Lang branches
A smaller way to categorize language families
Give an example of a language family and it’s branches
Indo European, which includes Romance languages (Portuguese Italian and Spanish) and Germanic
What is the first and second largest language families?
Sino Tibetan and Indo-European
Dialects
Variation of language (southern English)
Isogloss
Physical boundaries for dialects
What is a culture hearth
Home or origin of a culture
What are the culture hearths?
(I AM NOT GONNA MOVE WEST MR WESTON)
Indus River Valley,
Andean America,
Nile river valley,
Ganges river valley,
Mesoamerica,
Wei/huang River
Mesopotamia
West Africa
What are two ways the Indo-European language family could have spread
War (kurgan warrior theory) or Anatolian farmer theory (FARMING)
What makes a religion universal?
religion and its goal are open to everyone, missionaries, large diffusion
Give examples of universal religions
Christianity, islam, Buddhism, Sikhism
What makes a religion ethnic?
Limited diffusion, tied to a cultural group, no missionaries ( no new adherents), restricted to RELOCATION diffusion
Give examples of ethnic religions
Hinduism, Judaism, Shintoism, traditional religions
What was the hearth of Christianity
The West Bank
Give examples of how Christianity spread
Disciples and missionaries taught people (contagious), emperor thodosious declared Christianity for Rome (h), the crusades against Muslims (h), Spanish Inquisition forced people in Spain to be Christian (h) imperialism (r, c, and h)