Chaper 6 and 7

Question 1

What is a universalizing religion?

Answer 1

A religion that attempts to appeal to a wide group of people and have international reach. Diffuses rapidly

Question 2

What was the name of the forced migration of Africans to the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 2

Triangle Slave Trade or Middle Passage

Question 3

True or False: Ethnicity is important because it provides a stable basis for political states.

Answer 3

False: it often creates conflict within states

Question 4

What is a nationality?

Answer 4

Identity with a group of people who share a common legal standing and allegiance to a country

Question 5

What are the Holy Books for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?

Answer 5

Bible, Torah, and Quran

Question 6

What is the largest ethnic religion in the world?

Answer 6

Hinduism

Question 7

What products were sent back to Europe as part of the Triangle Slave Trade?

Answer 7

Rum and Molasses

Question 8

Most Latinos in America come from which two regions?

Answer 8

Mexico and Puerto Rico

Question 9

What is polytheism?

Answer 9

Belief in many gods.

Question 10

Where would you find Catholics and Protestants in North America?

Answer 10

Catholics: Southwest U.S. and Quebec. Protestants in East and Central U.S., Rest of Canada

Question 11

Judaism and Christianity both have their cultural hearths where?

Answer 11

Jordan and Israel a.k.a. the Holy Land

Question 12

The political separation of different races in South Africa that ended in the 1990s was called __________________.

Answer 12

Apartheid

Question 13

What is Darfur?

Answer 13

Region of Sudan that erupted in ethnic conflict

Question 14

What is Balkanization?

Answer 14

Breakdown of a country into 2 or more pieces because of ethnic conflicts

Question 15

What is the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide?

Answer 15

Ethnic cleansing removes an ethnic group. Genocide kills them all.

Question 16

Which faith attempted to unite ideas in both Islam and Hinduism?

Answer 16

Sikhism

Question 17

What two countries were created in 1947 when Britain left South Asia?

Answer 17

India and Pakistan

Question 18

Social scientists believe _______________ characterize the fragmentation of modern day politics.

Answer 18

Ethnicity or cultural identity

Question 19

In which major world religions do you find the concepts of reincarnation?

Answer 19

Hinduism and Buddhism

Question 20

Why aren’t states the most important social unit in Africa?

Answer 20

People are more closely tied to tribe or clan

Question 21

Religion has receded in some places and given way to what?

Answer 21

Secularization

Question 22

What was the name of the 1896 court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine in America?

Answer 22

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 23

What was the Great Migration?

Answer 23

Massive movement of African Americans to Northern Cities

Question 24

What is Zionism?

Answer 24

Movement to unite the Jewish people in a common homeland

Question 25

What is a theocracy?

Answer 25

A government in which religion and state are combined

Question 26

What continent has the largest population of adherents to the Jewish Faith?

Answer 26

North America