Unit 3 Terms and Religions

A focused geographic area where important innovations are born and from which they are spread

• Cultural Hearth

• Minority Religion

• An Ethnic Group

• Universalizing Religion

A religion that actively seeks new members and believes its message has universal importance and Application

• Ethnic Religion

• Universalizing Religion

• Monotheistic Religion

• Polytheistic Religion

The Idea That cultures are converging and becoming more alike

• glocalization

• Extinct language

• Cultural divergence

• Convergence

The Phenomenon whereby the introduction of new transportation technologies progressively reduce the time it takes to travel between places

• Time space continuum

• Difusion

• Time- Space Convergence

• Distance Decay

A language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area where it is not a mother tongue

• imperialism

• Colonialism

• Lingua Franca

• Bilingualism

A force that threatens the Cohesion of a neighborhood, society or country.

• Centrifugal Force

• Secularization

• Centripetal force

• sense of place

A force that brings people together and unifies a neighborhood, society or country

• sense of place

• Placemaking

• Centrifugal Force

• centripetal force

The distinctive feeling of a place, or persons perception of place

• centripetal force

• centrifugal force

• Sense of place

• Place making

This type of diffusion occurs when ideas or practices leap from one influential person to another

• relocation diffusion

• Hierarchical diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• Stimulus diffusion

Hierarchical contagious, and stimulus diffusion are all examples of what type of diffusion ?

• Relocation Diffusion

• Expansion Diffusion