Vocabulary: Culture

becoming part of another culture

• monotheism

• assimilation

• geography

how we look at other cultures based on our own

• secondary source

• tradition

• frame of reference

becoming part of another culture

• assimilation

• economist

• frame of reference

when parts of one culture spread to another culture

• cultural diffusion

• ethnocentric

• trade

set of beliefs that usually involve prayer, rituals, and a code of ethics

• agrarian

• frame of reference

• religion

believing in ONE god

• assimilation

• monotheism

• polytheism

believing in MANY gods

• polytheism

• tradition

• monotheism

handing down of information, beliefs and customs from one generation to another

• means of subsistence

• geography

• tradition

firsthand information about the past

• secondary source

• ethnocentric

• primary source

information about the past NOT based on direct experience

• primary source

• secondary source

• assimilation