Chapter 4 Vocabulary Review

way of life of a group of people who share similar culture traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items

• culture

• culture region

• culture hearth

• cultural diffusion

group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language

• language group

• language pack

• language families

• language cousins

the spread of culture traits, material and non-material, from one culture to another

• cultural infusion

• cultural explosion

• cultural revulsion

• cultural diffusion

division of the Earth in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, economic systems, and values

• culture families

• culture region

• culture shock

• culture

a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward

• culture region

• culture egg

• culture rift

• culture hearth

the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact

• migration

• urbanization

• globalization

• connectivity

the level of wealth, goods, and necessities available for people to live

• Standard of Living

• capitalism

• I'm rich, son!

• traditional economy

setting up businesses abroad to produce parts and products for domestic use or sale

• free market

• outsourcing

• incentive

• regulate

the spread of disease across a large area or even the world

• connectivity

• culture

• pandemic

• theocracy

number of births per year for every 1,000 people

• death rate

• natural increase

• birthrate

• migration