Unit 3

Question 1

Artifacts

Answer 1

Physical objects created by a culture

Question 2

Sociofacts

Answer 2

Ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions

Question 3

Mentifacts

Answer 3

Ideas, values, and beliefs that make up a culture

Question 4

Local/Traditional Culture

Answer 4

Small, isolated groups of people that are unlikely to change

Question 5

Ethnocentrism

Answer 5

Judging one’s culture in terms of one’s own standards

Question 6

Cultural Landscape

Answer 6

Modification of the land by people reflects the local cultures

Question 7

Sequent Occupancy

Answer 7

Idea that cultual groups will come, leave their mark, then move out

Question 8

Centripetal forces

Answer 8

Characteristics that can unify a country

Question 9

Centrifugal forces

Answer 9

Forces that can tear a country apart

Question 10

Relocation diffusion

Answer 10

Spread of a cultural trait throughout migration (someone has to move)

Question 11

Contagious diffusion

Answer 11

Cultural trait that spreads from person to person within a group via close contact

Question 12

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 12

Spread of cultural traits from the most powerful/wealthy people

Question 13

Pidgin language

Answer 13

Simplified, nonnative language used by 2 people that speak 2 different languages

Question 14

Anatolian Farmer Theory

Answer 14

Through the first. Agricultural revolution, cities were able to develop

Question 15

Syncretism

Answer 15

When 2 cultural traits blend to create a new cultural trait