AP Human Geo: Cultures, Religions, and Languages

What is a Hearth?

• The region in which ideas originate.

• Fireplace bricks.

• The spread of an idea over time.

• A mother language.

What is Diffusion?

• The spread of an idea over time.

• The place an idea originates.

• Different religions.

• Spread of light.

What is Expansion Diffusion?

• When ideas spread to new locations but stay strong in their original locations as well.

• When people move from place to place bringing their ideas and innovations with.

• When ideas spread from the original hearth outwards but is changed as it reaches new people.

• Modern culture that keeps receiving new ideas and is aimed at younger generations.

What is Contagious Expansion Diffusion?

• Is a distance controlling spread of an idea that goes locally from person to person, like a disease.

• Is the spread of an idea through people of a higher power.

• In which ideas spread from area to area by ways of small towns, temporarily bypassing urban areas.

• When an idea diffuses from its original hearth outwards, but is changed by new adopters.

What is Stimulus Expansion Diffusion?

• When ideas spread outwards from the original hearth and changes with each new person who adopts it.

• In which ideas spread from area to area by ways of small towns, temporarily bypassing urban areas.

• When an idea or innovation spreads from a higher power to socially "normal" people.

• When an idea spreads through a populations and the population of those affected grows continuously larger.

What are some barriers to diffusion?

• Distance Decay

• Language

• Political Issues

• Ethnicity

• Height

What is Acculturation?

• The process of taking in or merging into a different culture, usually a dominant one.

• A cultural family.

• Losing aspects of a culture.

• Death of a culture.

What is Assimilation?

• The process of taking in and fully accepting a culture.

• The spread of an idea over time.

• Death of a culture.

• Merging into another culture, usually a dominant one.

What is Creolization?

• The process in which two or more languages merge and create a new language.

• A mother tongue.

• The selected language of a country or region.

• The spread of an idea over time.

What is a Lingua Franca?

• A language that is adopted as a common language between different language speakers, often used during trading.

• A standard language of a country or region.

• In which ideas spread from area to area by ways of small towns, temporarily bypassing urban areas.

• Assimilation to another culture.