Unit 3 AP Human Geography

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

• relocation diffusion

• Hierarchical diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• Stimulus diffusion

This type of Diffusion occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, thereby bringing the idea or practice to their new homeland

• Relocation Diffusion

• Expansion Diffusion

This type of diffusion involves a wavelike spread of ideas in the manner of a contagious disease, equally moving throughout space.

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Stimulus diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Relocation Diffusion

This type of Diffusion happens when a specific trait is not adopted in its original form, but the underlying idea is accepted and the cultural trait is still adopted

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

• Relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

Assimilation takes place when

• a smaller culture shares traits with a larger culture

• a smaller culture is totally absorbed by a larger, more dominant culture

• cultures give and take

• culture moves with people in relocation diffusion

Relocation diffusion is 

• listening to pop music

• a Syrian family moving to the US

• wearing jeans

• eating at McDonalds

Which locations and religions are correctly paired in terms of place or origin/hearth?

• Islam: Egypt

• Buddhism: India

• Hinduism: South America

• Judaism: Saudi Arabia

Which three religions have holy places in Jerusalem?

• Sikhism, Islam, Judaism

• Islam, Christianity, Hinduism

• Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism

• Islam, Christianity, Judaism

How did Christianity first diffuse from its hearth?

• The Crusades

• military conquest

• expansion diffusion

• relocation diffusion

A universalizing religion

• appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations.

• is less likely to be used as a reason for violence than ethnic religions.

• is rarely transmitted through missionaries.

• has celebrations that are almost entirely based on seasonal changes.