Optional Assignment: Crossword Puzzle on Culture Change

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Across
  1. 1. populations are not only growing, more and more people live in increasingly densely populated urban centers around the globe.
  2. 6. This occurs when cultures come into contact, and one or both change as a result.
  3. 8. Cultural _______________ refers to the idea that cultures around the globe may be becoming more alike as a result of the spread of dominant cultures, especially U.S. culture.
  4. 9. When aspects of an outside culture are incorporated into an indigenous culture to create something that combines both in a new way.
  5. 10. A reation to modernization which allows for people from different cultures to maintain their own languages and identity.
  6. 17. Religious reaction to modernization
  7. 18. With modernization we see _______________, where more and more people around the globe rely on machines fueled by oil, coal, and gas.
  8. 19. This major change in human prehistory developed with the emergence of grain cultivation in the Middle East between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago.
  9. 20. Destruction of the environment intentionally or through negligence.
Down
  1. 2. The form of agriculture growing most rapidly. Replies on sophisticated machinary and massive production of animals and plants, as well as genetically modified seed, and is modeled on running agriculture as a business.
  2. 3. Scientists suggest this is causing Trobriand Islanders houses to flood, Inuit houses to sink into the melting permafrost, and other significant and disruptive changes.
  3. 4. when an exisiting idea or invention is applied in a new way.
  4. 5. This was the subsistence pattern for the vast majority of human history, and anthropologists argue it dramatically shaped humans both physically and culturally.
  5. 7. Becoming ubiquitous in the daily lives of people around the globe.
  6. 11. an invention, chance discovery, or innovation.
  7. 12. Do not confuse acculturation with this, which refers to the entire process of learning a culture, especially one you are born into.
  8. 13. The number of people now living on Earth, as of November 2022.
  9. 14. A term anthropologists use to descibe the spread of some cultures around the world.
  10. 15. when one culture deliberately seeks to destroy another by, for example, not allowing children to speak their language, wear cultural clothing, or engage in other aspects of their own culture.
  11. 16. The impacts of modernization on this group, which lives in the Amazonian Rainforest, include exposure to high levels of mercury, being killed by miners then steal land, being displaced by ranchers, and other serious threats.