APHG Unit 3 Vocabulary

What is the adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another called?

• acculturation

• assimilation

• creolization

• multiculturalism

What is the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another called?

• assimilation

• acculturation

• creolization

• multiculturalism

What is the intentionally designed features of human settlement, including buildings, transportation and public service infrastructure, and public spaces called?

• built environment

• cultural landscape

• creolization

• multiculturalism

What is an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state called?

• centripetal force

• centrifugal force

• syncretism

• cultural convergence

What is a force that divides people and countries called?

• centrifugal force

• centripetal force

• cultural convergence

• cultural divergence

What is an attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory called?

• colonialism

• imperialism

• cultural landscape

• syncretism

What is a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically called?

• imperialism

• colonialization

• syncretism

• cultural convergence

What is a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated called?

• creole

• pidgen

• syncretism

• ethnocentrism

What is the contact and interaction of one culture with another called?

• cultural convergence

• cultural divergence

• multiculturalism

• centripetal force

What is the restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences called?

• cultural divergence

• cultural convergence

• multiculturalism

• syncretism