Ch 4.1 Global Cultures Quiz

Which of the following terms refers to early centers of civilization whose ideas and practices spread to surrounding areas?

• Language family
• Ethnic enclave
• Urban core
• Culture hearth

The Industrial Revolution is considered an era of rapid ____________ because new technology enable culture traits to spread more quickly from one culture to another.

• Cultural diffusion
• Cultural dispersion
• Cultural assimilation
• Cultural dissonance

How has computer technology affected cultural change in recent decades?

• Decelerated cultural change by imposing more unifromity
• Discouraged cultural change due to distractions of electronic gadgets
• Accelerated cultural change by facilitating the spread of ideas and traditions
• Accelerated cultural change because it has imposed cultural uniformity

Spread of culture traits, both material and non-material from one culture to another.

• Cultural Dissonance
• Cultural Dispersion
• Cultural Assimilation
• Cultural Diffusion

All five of the early culture hearths emerged near

• Trade routes
• Central government systems
• Middle latitude region
• Near sources of water

Which early factors encouraged cultural change?

• Green Revolution, Political Revolution, Demographic Revolution
• Information technology, exploration, religion
• War, trade, and migration
• Settlement, agriculture, government

Geographers divide the world into _____, which are areas in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, economic systems and values.

• Ethnicities
• Nationalities
• Culture hearths
• Culture regions

Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, and Indo-European are examples of

• Geographic associations
• Language families
• Ethnic groups
• Climate regions

The enslavement of Africans who were then shipped to the Americas i8s an example of cultural change caused by forced

• Assimilation
• Migration
• Labor
• Diffusion

The period in the 1700s and 1800s during which many countries experienced rapid cultural change as they developed power-driven machines and factories to mass-produces goods is known as

• Green Revolution
• Political Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution