AP Geo Culture Review

Which river is sacred in Hinduism?

Osama Bin Laden is an example of this.

Where do most Jews live in the world?

The caste system is a relic of which religion?

Small, rural areas settled by a single ethnic group.

A premediated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group

Which part of the United States is known as the Bible Belt?

Quebec would be an example of this.

Which religion is the oldest?

What type of religion is Hinduism?

English is this in Africa.

Which religion believe strongly in the respect for elders or ancestors?

Which religion is widespread in North Africa?

The belief that cultural traits are controlled by environmental conditions.

Socially created distinctions between masculinity and femininity.

Refers to the practices developed from everyday rituals in traditional societies.

A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics

The ideas, practices and material objects associated with a particular group of people.

The material objects of a culture.

This results from the habit of evaluating other cultures against the standards one one's own.

The most recently developed religion is

Specific customs that are part of every day life including language, religion, ethnicity, etc.

Process by which an idea or innovation is tranmitted from one individual or group across space.

Languages that are unrelated to all others and are not attached to any language family

Experiences of people who come from a common ethnic background but live in different areas.

This refers to spaces that have been modified by human activity.

What are the three main sects of Christianity?

The idea that a person's soul moves upward or downward based on their behavior in this life is

A collection of sounds understood by a group to have the same meaning.

In which religion do the people believe in one god named Allah?

The adoption of cultural traits by one group under the influence of another.

Which religion is the most widespread in the world?

Which religion became strong in the US NOT as a result of relocation diffusion?

Which country did Hinduism start in?

Chinatown is an example of this term.

All of the following are part of the Hindu trinity EXCEPT

A group of people who share a common identity.

These types of religions appeal to groups of people with a common heritage

An extremely simple language that combines aspects of two languages usually for trade purposes.

Ancient greek religion would an example of which of the following?

The effort to rid an area of everyone of a particular ethnicity.

Multilingual states.

When integration of immigrants into the economic and cultural mainstream of society is complete

Hinduism is most closely associated with which nation?

Subgroups of a larger belief system that have slightly different rituals or interpretations.

Which religion was the first major monotheistic religion?

The biological differences between males and females.

Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary from the parent form.

In which country does Eastern Orthodoxy dominate?

When popular culture causes local traditions to either die out or become commercialized

This religion traces its origins and many of its practices to Hinduism.

Mecca is a sacred place in which religion?