APHG Unit 3 Review

practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture and generates misunderstanding, ignorance and conflict 

• Ethnosuperiorism
• Egotism
• Ethnocentrism
• Human nature

NOT an example of a cultural landscape

• The street patterns of Bogota
• the buildings of Ciudad Perdida
• a rain forest
• A golf course

Cultural traditions, such as Carnaval (Brasil, Barranquilla...), are ________________ since they are a celebration that blends elements of African, European, and Indigenous cultures.

• wicked awesome
• exotic
• terrifying
• syncretic

The fact that trends in popular culture (e.g. fashion) proceed from large global centers (Milan, Paris, New York) through a series of progressively smaller cities is an example of

• diffusion

• migration

• hierarchical diffusion.

• relative location.

A language ____________ is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
Hint: The trunk of the tree

• branch
• family
• dialect
• group

A language ____________ is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.

• family
• branch
• dialect
• group

What is the largest language family in terms of spoken by most people?

• Afro-Asiatic
• Indo-European
• Sino-Tibetan
• Austronesian

Which is NOT one of the 4 main branches of the Indo-European language family?

• Germanic
• Romance
• Balto-Slavic
• Sino-Tibetan

A language _________ is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past.  

• family
• branch
• group
• dialect

Of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European family, what GROUP does  India, Pakistan and Bangladesh belong to respectively?

• Indic (Eastern) group
• Iranian (Western) group