Across
- 2. common culture traits that make a group in an area distinct from others
- 5. religion practiced by majority of India; believe in a universal soul and God who takes on many forms that; gods or goddesses.
- 7. mother tongue that originates from a pidgin
- 13. new faith founded in Iran
- 15. when an innovation originates somewhere and enjoys strong-but brief-adoption, loses strength at origin by the time it reaches another area
- 22. language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
- 23. ability to speak more than two languages
- 24. a religion that appeals to one place
- 25. study of human relationship to culture and nature.
- 27. culture found in a heterogeneous society
- 30. even smaller groups than sects
- 31. term for extraordinary
- 33. spread of an idea from nodes of authority or power to persons or places with less power
- 36. religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.
- 38. combining of beliefs
- 42. one of the two primary branches of Islam; believed successor should be voted by religious leader
- 43. observable actions or becuase of beliefs
- 44. composite culture of folk societies
- 45. human creations, such as values, that are not embodied in physical objects
- 47. most humans see objects as this; ordinary
- 49. many languages spoken by a small group of people.
- 51. small divisions that branch off of the branches
- 53. declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source.
- 54. single element of normal practice in a culture
- 55. diffusion in which one people receives a culture element from another but gives it a new and unique form
- 57. religion with one god
- 65. the teachings that encourage love for humanity
- 66. spread of cultural ideas from one society to another
- 67. boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
- 68. dont beleive in god but thinks highly of all humans. concentrated about people
- 69. The Buddhist yana whose path is the transformation of neurotically confused emotions into their enlightened equivalents.
- 70. Way of the Elders
- 73. minor branch; split from Roman Catholicism in the 11th century; strong in Eastern Europe and Russia
- 74. group of languages with more in common than a language family
- 75. language family spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of southwestern and southern Asia
- 77. an awareness of being a part of a group of people living in a culture region
- 80. forced people from lands of origin
- 81. cultural borowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact
- 82. motifs that stand for other things or ideas
- 83. a monotheistic religion founded in northern India
- 84. when one larger culture completely absorbs a different smaller culture
- 85. major branch of CHristianity
- 86. culture system that intertwines with location and environmental circumstances to form a geographic region
- 87. economic and political theories that say human actions and institutions are economically determined
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- 1. animistic religion of northern Asia
- 3. belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
- 4. religion that is no longer practiced
- 6. ideas that people hold to be true
- 8. process by which one generation passes culture to the next
- 9. the belief that cultural influences determine the behaviors and personalities of people
- 10. area marked by culture that distinguishes it from other regions
- 11. Big Wheel; broad incorporation of ideas and gods from other religions
- 12. vocal or written communication
- 14. adoption of some culture traits of the surrounding culture
- 16. developments that can be traced to a specific civilization
- 17. culture usually practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
- 18. a common language that comes to be spoken and understood over a large area
- 19. an area where many people who live in a land space share at least some traditions or customs
- 20. large and general divisions of religions
- 21. form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications
- 26. smaller landscapes that symbolize a bigger area
- 28. rapid and widespread diffusion
- 29. view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development
- 32. one of the two primary branches of Islam; believed successor should be a family of Muhammad
- 34. ablility to speak two languages
- 35. strong cultural ties that bind its people
- 37. spread of a feature or trend through movement of people
- 39. ancient objects made by human beings
- 40. branch of naming that studies the place names of a region or a language
- 41. split from catholic church in 16th century, divided into hundreds of denominations; strong in north America
- 46. study of the geographical distribution of language
- 48. religion whose followers believe that the ultimate goal in life is to achieve "enlightenment" as they perceive it
- 50. monotheistic religion practiced mainly in Middle East. two branches sunni and shiites. disagreement over rightful successor.
- 52. original religion
- 56. American geographer that wrote about diffusion
- 58. practice of judging a culture by its own standards no bias
- 59. group of languages with a shared origin
- 60. rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
- 61. looks at how cultures vary over space.
- 62. visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape
- 63. relationship between artifact and social relations
- 64. place of origin of a culture
- 71. an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
- 72. first monotheistic religion started in Israel
- 76. religion that emphasizes a simple, honest life
- 78. doctrine that everything natural has a soul
- 79. usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; branches off of a language