Unit 1 Flashcards
Relative Location
Your position related to others.
Absolute Location
Where you are-exact spot.
Push Factor
Makes you leave an area
Pull Factor
Makes you want to come to an area
Major causes of conflict in culture
Religion, politics, economics, nationalism, tradition v.s. Modern values.
Basics of religion
Recognizing a higher being, answers to human life, creates conflict.
Monotheism?
Belief in one god
Atheism?
Belief in no god
Chinese religions?
Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Baha’I, Mahayana Buddhism, confussious.
When did Judaism form?
2,000 b.c.
Law of Judaism
10 commandments and others given
Yom Kippur?
A day of atonement (no food, drink, don’t do anything)
Main location of Judaism now?
Israel
Where Hinduism formed?
India
Divine being of Hinduism
Brahman