Unit 3: Culture, Language, and Religion

What religion has the most followers worldwide today

• Judaism
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Christianity

Which of the following applies to ethnic religions?

• spread great distances from its hearth; focus on converting new members

• rarely diffuse far from hearth; focus on keeping religion within the community or ethnic group

Which group contains only universalizing religions?

• Christianity, Buddhism, Islam

• Hinduism, Judaism

The clearest example of relocation diffusion is the spread of

• an ethnic religion to a new place

• a religion after a king adopts that faith

• the ideas of a religion through books and letters

• a religion by merchants along a trade route

• missionaries who temporarily move to spread a religion, but go back home

The world's 3 major monotheistic religions originated from...

• East Asia
• Southwest Asia
• Eastern Europe
• Africa

Which of the following is an example of an ethnic religion?

• Islam
• Mormonsim
• Buddhism
• Judaism

The term "cultural diffusion" refers to the

• modification of Earth's surface
• behavioral traits within a group
• spread of an idea or innovation
• assimilation of a minority

Assimilation can be defined as

• when one becomes more like the dominant culture.
• when a person refuses to learn the dominant culture
• when a culture is practice all over the world
• when a culture is similar to another culture

Why is English the most widely spoken language in Canada and the U.S.?

• The Norman Conquest

• Viking Explorations of the New World

• British Colonialism

• The Internet

What branch of the Indo-European language family does English belong to?

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• Indo-Iranian