Unit 3 Vocab Review APHG

When a person or group migrates and stops practicing their culture and takes on the dominant culture

• assimilation

• acculturation

• cultural relativism

• ethnocentrism

A universalizing religion, whose hearth is in India; it is mainly practiced in China. It is non-theistic because they do not believe in one or many gods. Temples, pagodas, and stupas are all houses of worship

• Hinduism

• Sikhism

• Buddhism

• Islam

Forces that divide people or a nation

• push factors

• centripetal

• centrifugal

• pull factors

When people migrate and take on elements of the dominant culture while still practicing their own culture

• ethnocentrism

• acculturation

• assimilation

• cultural relativism

Forces that unite a people or country

• centripetal

• ecumene

• centrifugal

• pull factors

A universalizing religion, whose hearth is Israel. Monotheistic; main religion practiced in the world.

• Judaism

• Islam

• Christianity

• Hindusim

The establishment of a territory by people from another country. The territory has few people and the goal is to move or kill the locals

• colonialism

• imperialism

• ethnic cleansing

• genocide

A type of diffusion that is rapid and reaches a wide audience

• stimulus

• hierarchical

• relocation

• contagious

The combination of two or more languages, that overtime has developed a large vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar rules, and is taught as a first language

• pidgin

• creole

• lingua franca

• dialect

Whenever humans alter the physical environment. Often referred to as the built environment.

• space-time compression

• distance decay

• cultural landscape

• sustainability