43174642 | Islam's hearth | Mecca, Saudi Arabia | |
43174643 | Islam - monotheistic or polytheistic? | Monotheistic | |
43174644 | Islam - ethnic or universalizing? | Universalizing | |
43174645 | Islam - major branches | Sunni, Shias, | |
43174646 | Islam - Where are adherents found today? | Southwest Asia | |
43174647 | Location of Shiite Muslims | Iraq | |
43174648 | Amish location in U.S. | Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. | |
43174649 | Cultural ecology | The multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment. | |
43174650 | Material culture | The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people. | |
43174651 | Material culture example | Football in America. | |
43174652 | Nonmaterial culture | The beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of people. | |
43174653 | Nonmaterial culture example | The religon of Islam. | |
43174654 | Culture trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture. | |
43174655 | Culture trait examples | 1. Wearing of a turban for Muslim societies. 2. Amish girls and women wearing dresses. | |
43174656 | Culture region | A geographical area that encompasses or seems to encompass a definite, specific culture or ethnic group. | |
43174657 | Culture region examples | 1. Chinatown in New York 2. Region of Europe where French is spoken by a majority of the people. | |
43174658 | Ancient culture hearths | Mesopotamia, Nile Valley, Mesoamerica, and West Africa. | |
43174659 | Popular culture hearths | Modern cities such as London and Tokyo. | |
43174660 | Christianity's hearth | Mediterranean area | |
43174661 | Christianity - monotheistic or polytheistic? | Monotheistic | |
43174662 | Christianity - ethnic or universalizing? | Universalizing | |
43174663 | Christianity - major branches | Roman Catholicism, Eastern orthodox, Protestant | |
43174664 | Christianity - Where are adherents found today? | Adherents are primarily found in Europe, North Africa, and the United States | |
43174665 | Popular culture | identify key traits about who belongs, where it's found, how it diffuses | |
43174666 | Folk culture | identify key traits about who belongs, where it's found, how it diffuses | |
43174667 | Acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | |
43174668 | Acculturation example | people who live in Italy who come to the United States may continue to speak just Italian and to follow the norms and mores of his Italian origins. This person will not have become highly acculturated to American culture. | |
43174669 | Assimilation | the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | |
43174670 | Assimilation example | Dressing, speech particularities and mannerisms. Ex) A british women coming to the US has to put all the stress, talking habits, clothes and things an american person does. | |
43174671 | Transculturation | define | |
43174672 | Transculturation example | identify | |
43174673 | Syncretism | define | |
43174674 | Syncretism example | identify | |
43174675 | Key features of New England folk housing | Wood frame, and a fireplace in the center to overcome cold climates | |
43174676 | Key features of Middle Atlantic folk housing | Started as a 1 room log cabin, but then slowly adding additional room such as a porch, or a second story. | |
43174677 | Key features of Southern Tidewater folk housing | Only 1 story, raised off of the ground to prevent flood damage and t oreduce interior heat. | |
43174678 | Judaism's hearth | SouthWest Asia/Middle East, Israel | |
43174679 | Judaism - monotheistic or polytheistic? | Monotheistic | |
43174680 | Judaism - ethnic or universalizing? | Ethnic | |
43174681 | Judaism - major branches | Orthodox - most traditional; Reform - most liberal form; Hasidic - most worshiping type; Conservative - lighter dervision | |
43174682 | Judaism - Where are adherents found today? | Isreal, also found in the U.S. | |
43174683 | Language | Hebrew | |
43174684 | Language example | Sandwich - כריך | |
43174685 | Standard language | Hebrew | |
43174686 | Official language | Hebrew | |
43174687 | Isogloss | Israeli borders | |
43174688 | Isogloss example | West Bank | |
43174689 | Dialect | modern hebrew | |
43174690 | Dialect example | Haskalah = "enlightenment" | |
43174691 | Reasons why dialects develop | Isreal adopts new dialects as it develops; Hebrew changes to fit in with new host cultures; As Judaism is newly adopted it is changed | |
43174692 | Language divergence | The Halocaust led Jews to spread to new parts of the world | |
43174693 | Language convergence | There are 5.6 million Jews in the U.S. | |
43174694 | Sound shift | Hebrew has 5 vowel phonemes | |
43174695 | Sound shift example | /a/ - "spa;" /e/ - "bet;" /i/ - "ski;" /o/ - "gore:" /u/ - "flu" | |
43174696 | Hinduism's hearth | South Asia in modern day Pakistan | |
43174697 | Hinduism - monotheistic or polytheistic? | Hindu's belive it to be monotheistic, nobelievers think it's polytheistic. | |
43174698 | Hinduism - ethnic or universalizing? | ethnic | |
43174699 | Hinduism - Where are adherents found today? | India | |
43174700 | Language family | A group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin | |
43174701 | Language family example | Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Saharan, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese and Korean | |
43174702 | Language sub-family | Divisions of languages within a language family | |
43174703 | Language sub-family example | Germanic | |
43174705 | Lingua franca example | Arabic | |
43174706 | Language spoken by the most people worldwide | English | |
43174707 | Language spoken by the most people as a primary language worldwide | Chinese (Mandarin) | |
43174708 | Pidgin | When two languages are brought together for communication | |
43174709 | Creole | A Language that started out as a Pidgin language, but then developed into a language | |
43174710 | Euskera | Basque because they live isolated in the mountains between Spain and France | |
43174711 | Toponym | Place Name | |
43174712 | Buddhism's hearth | Northeastern hemishpere and Anciet India | |
43174713 | q | Monotheistic | |
43174714 | Buddhism - ethnic or universalizing? | identify | |
43174715 | Buddhism - Where are adherents found today? | Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Nepal, Korea and Japan | |
43174716 | Descriptive toponym example | identify | |
43174717 | Associative toponym example | Mill River, Springfield (A mill was on the river) | |
43174718 | Commendatory toponym example | identify | |
43174719 | Shift relocation toponym example | Names from a settler's homeland. Ex. Greece and New England | |
43174720 | Manufactured toponym example | Made up names. Tesnus, Arizona. (Sunset spelled backwards) | |
43174721 | Monotheistic religion | a belief in only one God | |
43174722 | World's three major monotheistic religions | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | |
43174723 | Polytheistic religion | a belief in more than one diety | |
43174724 | Animist religion | belief that inatimate objects posses spirits | |
43174725 | Universalizing religion | A belief system that espouses the idea that there is one true religion that is universal in scope. Adherents of universalizing religious systems often believe that their religion represents universal truths, and in some cases great effort is undertaken in evangelism and missionary work. | |
43174726 | Ethnic religion | A religion that is particular to one, culturally distinct people | |
43174727 | Three major universalizing religions | Christianity, Islam, Buddhism | |
43174728 | Hearth of the three major monotheistic religions | Judaism-Eastern Meditteranean, Christianity-Eastern Meditteranean, Islam-Mecca | |
43174729 | Taoism/Confucianism's hearth | Eastern Asia. China. | |
43174730 | Taoism/Confucianism - monotheistic or polytheistic? | neither, its a life style. | |
43174731 | Taoism/Confucianism - ethnic or universalizing? | neither | |
43174732 | Taoism/Christianity - Where are adherents found today? | Taoism-austrailia, japan, republic of korea, thailand, and myanmar. Confucianism-china and taiwan. | |
43174733 | Regions of the U.S. where you would find Mormons | mountain west region, mainly utah. | |
43174734 | Regions of the U.S. where you would find Catholics | the whole U.S. mostly new england region. | |
43174735 | Regions of the U.S. where you would find Baptists | South Region | |
43174736 | Regions of the U.S. where you would find Lutherans | Upper Midwest | |
43174737 | Ethnicity | A sense of connection to a group of people feuled by ancesors and culture | |
43174738 | Ethnicity examples | Indian Chinese Russian | |
43174739 | Race | A way to categorize or group certain people based on skin color and other pyhsical attributes | |
43174740 | Gender | Differences between men and women in relation to society which is also in relation to what is considered masculine or feminine | |
43174741 | Residential segregation | the physical separation of two groups based on residence and housing | |
43174742 | Invasion and succession | New immigrants move to a city and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups | |
43174743 | Regions of the U.S. with largest Latino populations | southern tip of Florida and the southwest along the U.S. Mexican Border | |
43174744 | Regions of the U.S. with largest Asian American populations | Along the west coast |
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