Unit 1 Study Guide-Geography and Culture Flashcards
What are the five major world religions
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism
Which of the five major world religions are universalizing religions?
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
Which of the major world religions are monotheistic?
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
Which of the major world religions are polytheistic?
Hinduism
Which region of the world did Christianity originate?
Middle East
Which region of the world did Islam originiate?
Middle East
Which region of the world did Judaism originate?
Middle East
Which region of the world did Buddhism originiate?
India
Which region of the world did Hinduism originate?
India
What is the largest world religion with how many followers?
Christianity, 2 billion
Which of the major world religions is the smallest with how many followers?
Judaism, 14 million
Where did Indo-European come from?
Eastern Europe
Where did Sino-Tibetan come from?
East Asia
Where did Niger-Congo come from?
Central to Southern Africa
Where did Austronesian come from?
South Asia
Where did Afro-Asiatic come from?
Middle East to North Africa
Where did Dravidian come from?
Northern India to Middle Asia
Where did Turkic come from?
Northern Asia to Eastern Europe
Where did Japonic come from?
Eastern Asia (Japan)
Which language family is the largest with how many speakers?
Indo-European, 3.2 billion speakers
Which language family is the smallest with how many speakers?
Japonic, 128 million speakers
What are cultural landscapes?
landscapes that have been affected, influenced, or shaped by human involvement
How does culture affect the landscape of a place?
Societies build their civilization around the landscape or it becomes important to the culture.
Define relocation.
moving from one place to another while maintaining culture
Define hierarchical
ideas spreading from one connected group to another smaller group, and so on
Define contagious
When culture spreads very quickly in an area
Define stimulus
when culture spreads but certain ones make it their own
What is a cultural hearth and examples?
Cultural hearths are places where culture diffused from, the place of origin. The Ganges River valley and ancient Mesopotamia
Define globilization.
The expansion of culture to where it becomes global in scale and impact
Define acculturation.
The adoption of certain culture and social characteristics by another society
Define multiculturalism.
Culture found in large societies that share habits despite differences in personal characteristics
Define cultural convergence.
The tendency of cultures to become more alike
Define syncretism.
A mixing of cultural objects
Define lingua franca
A language understood by many and used during trade with those who have different native languages
Define creolization
When two languages merge to form a new one
