Describe the Diffusion of Islam:

Hearth is Southwest Asia; contagious diffusion by trade Spain/Asia/Africa

What are the 4 Nobel truths?

Life suffering, suffering & need of desire, and with limit, & path.

Contagious diffusion by military campaigns

A universalizing religion

appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations

What is a language family (language tree)?

Languages that have the same origin

What is a creole language?

a language that is a mixture of two or more languages

boundary between language regions

What are the 5 pillers of Islam?

Faith, Prayer, Giving Alms, Fasting, and Pillgramige

How can we save languages?

creating schools/training teachers, politically recognising them as valid/using them, making dictionaries, including them in mass media e.g. TV

Branches of Christianity?

Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox

Eightfold path, 4 noble truths & 5 precepts

What is the diffusion of Christianity?

It was spread by missionaries and the Roman Empire

a language that is no longer spoken by anyone as a native language.

Which answer best describes the diffusion of Sikhism?

Contagious through conversion, Relocation to former British Empire and US.

What is a pidgin language?

a simplified version of a language

taught that suffering is part of life and to remove desire from their mind

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what are the 4 nobel truths
Steps to going to Nirvana
Nivana
Hell
Goddess of death
2
Which religion is NOT a universalizing religion?
Sikhism
Judaism
Christianity
Buddhism
3
A pidgin language
cannot exist without globalization
is spread by folk culture
has no native speakers
cannot exist for more than a generation
4
Describe the Diffusion of Islam:
Hearth is in India; diffused through Northern/Western parts
Hearth is Southwest Asia; contagious diffusion by trade Spain/Asia/Africa
Hearth is Eastern Mediterranean; diffused throughout Western Europe/ Asia
5
Hearth of Hinduism
Indus River Valley
Punjab
Sri Lanka
Israel
6
What is NOT a factor in the creation of different dialects?
contagious diffusion
vocabulary
spelling
pronunciation
7
What is not an element of both Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism?
Pacifism
Eight-fold Path
4 Noble Truths
Buddha is a God
8
Hearth of Sikhism?
India
China
India (Punjab area)
Israel
9
Ethnic religions
All of the above
Do not seek converts.
None of the above
Are made up of homogeneous populations.
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What are the 4 Nobel truths?
Life suffering, and following the rules
pain, all pain, so much pain, just pain
Life suffering, suffering & need of desire, and with limit, & path.
Any and everything to do with the "Eightfold Path"
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Diffusion of Islam?
Relocation
Stimulus
Military wars
Contagious diffusion by military campaigns
12
Which pair are both ethnic religions?
Judaism & Buddhism
Hinduism & Buddhism
Judaism & Hinduism
Christianity & Islam
13
Three branches of Buddhism
legislative, executive, and judicial
Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana
daalee, knagshobo, department
14
A universalizing religion
has celebrations based on seasonal changes.
is rarely transmitted through missionaries
appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations
is based on the physical characteristics of a location
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What is a language family (language tree)?
Languages that have the same origin
A group of languages you speak
Languages belonging to the same area
Languages that can easily be understood
16
What is a creole language?
a language that is used for international communications
a language that is no longer spoken
a language that is a mixture of two or more languages
a very simplified version of a language
17
Which of the Roman Emperors used hierarchical diffusion in the spread of Christianity?
Caesar
Erathosthenes
Constantine
Claudius
18
An isogloss is
a collection of unique words
a form of a language spoken in a local area
blending two language families
boundary between language regions
19
The trunks of the language trees represent language:
dialects
languages
Branches
families
20
What are the 5 pillers of Islam?
Help the poor, Death, Help the jews, serve in war, and Find God
Pillers that hold up the museam of Islam
Faith, Prayer, Giving Alms, Fasting, and Pillgramige
21
Judaism, Islam and Christianity share a belief in
monotheism
a prohibition of the consumption of port
reincarnation & the four noble truths
the central authority of the Pope
22
Hindu sacred text
Quran
Middle Way
Four Noble Truths
Vedas
23
Which ruler furthered the hierarchical diffusion of Buddhism throughout Southeast Asia?
Constantine
Chandragupta Maurya
Empress Wu
Prince Ashoka
24
How can we save languages?
creating schools/training teachers
politically recognising them as valid/using them
making dictionaries
including them in mass media e.g. TV
25
Ethnic Religion depends on which type of diffusion?
Simultaneously
Relocation
Stimulus
26
Branches of Christianity?
Baptist, Roman Catholic, Lutheran
Lutheran, Baptist, Protestant
Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox
Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Baptist
27
Buddhist beliefs
Eightfold path, 4 noble truths & 5 precepts
5 pillars and 6 articles of faith
The soul, 4 stages of life, reincarnation
One God, One covenant, God's chosen people
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What is the diffusion of Christianity?
Migration
Indian traders traveling to China
Muslim armies conquering territory in N Africa and Near East
It was spread by missionaries and the Roman Empire
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Hearth of Islam
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Nepal
Jerusalem
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What geographic barrier prevented the diffusion of Buddhism?
The Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Great Himalayas
The Sahara Desert
31
A dead language is
a language that is no longer spoken by anyone as a native language.
a language people used to speak a long time ago.
the language you learn when you are a small child.
the language people in a country speak, but not the official language.
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Which answer best describes the diffusion of Sikhism?
Relocation into the Americas through colonialism.
Contagious through conversion, Relocation to former British Empire and US.
Contagious into Sub-Saharan Africa.
Contagious and Relocation into East Asia.
33
A revived language
Persian
Swahili
Hebrew
Serbo-Croatian
34
The most important beliefs of Islam, started by Muhammad, are
gather wealth to grow rich
to respect other Abrahamic relgions (Judaism/Christianity)
the "five pillars"
use "jihad" to spread the faith
35
What is a pidgin language?
a mixture of languages
an endangered language
a simplified version of a language
an extinct language
36
Branches of Islam
Catholics and Jews
Sunny and Saddy
Hindi and Siki
Shiites and Sunnis
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The oldest Universalizing religion is
Buddhism
Islam
Christianity
Sikkism
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The hearth of Buddhism is
China
Thailand
India
Present day Nepal
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Buddhist beliefs...
taught harmony with nature and balancing one’s chi on the correct “way.”
taught that suffering is part of life and to remove desire from their mind
taught social unity and respect to the social order.
taught respect and worship of their ancestors.
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Cultural hearth of Christianity
Turkey
Israel
Rome
New York

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