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_______ is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.
Culture
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Cultures include three things:
Language, religion, and small groups
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Name two things that geographers look at
food and housing
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________ analyze cultures.
Anthropologists
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_____________ study pottery and tools to understand how people lived in the past.
Archaeologists
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Most social groups have rules of ______ that group members learn.
behavior
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What is status?
A person's rank in society.
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What is the most important group in all cultures?
families
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What is an ethnic group?
People sharing language, history, religion, and some physical traits.
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Name one country that has many ethnic groups.
United States
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What is ethnocentrism?
The belief that one's culture is superior to another.
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A _______ is a local form of language. Give an example.
dialect - southern accents :)
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More than ______ languages are spoken in the world today.
2000
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Name the five major world religions
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judiaism
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What shapes how a culture views itself and the world.
History
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Name three basic human needs.
Food, clothing, and shelter
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How do people express what they think is beautiful and meaningful?
Through the arts.
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People need ___________ to live together without conflict?
Rules - or impress your teacher by saying social contracts - ask mom for more clarification. :)
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Define a democracy.
Power is held by the people.
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Governments can be ___________ or ___________.
Limited or unlimited - tell what they mean.
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Define a dictatorship.
The leader rules by force.
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Define monarchy
A government ruled by a king or queen.
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Thousands of years ago ___________ and __________ lived and traveled in small groups.
Hunters and gatherers.
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Economic success is defined by:
the quality of life of the people.
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After ________ B.C. people learned to farm
8000 B. C.
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Early civilizations developed in these four places:
Iraq, Egypt, India, and China
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When did countries begin to industrialize?
around 1700 A.D.
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What is cultural diffusion?
The influence of other cultures through trade, migration, or conquest.
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The influence of other cultures through trade, migration, or conquest is known as _____________.
cultural diffusion
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How was religion spread?
Through trade routes
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Name three things that contribute to cultural diffusion today.
Television, radio, and internet
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What is globalization?
Development of a worldwide culture.
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True or false, with globalization, individual economies rely greatly upon one another for resources and markets.
True
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