Miami Beach Senior High School / Overview



UNIT CULTURE TEST STUDY GUIDEThe body of customary beliefs, social forms and material traits that constitute a group's distinct traditions would best describe a specific population's…The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a…A repetitive act performed by an individual is aA repetitive act performed by a group is a…Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. They are also an example of…In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary in…In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of large and…Cultural diversity is promoted by…Typically, popular culture characteristics are…Folk cultures are spread primarily by…Before reaching other parts of (which city?) and, eventually, marginalized urban areas throughout the country, Hip Hop music originated in the late 1970s in the South Bronx.In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in…The distribution of the subjects of art in the Himalayas shows how folk cultures…A vernacular region or area that is perceived as part of a local identity is best represented by…Groups living in close proximity to one another yet practicing uniquely different social customs suggests…We can deduce from the examples of popular music, fashionable clothing, and electronic applications around us that the rapid diffusion of popular culture…Folk songs are more likely than popular songs to…An example of a folk custom used to diffuse information about agriculture is…Hip hop music demonstrates an interplay between globalization and local diversity because…Like hip hop music, music from the border region between the southwestern United States and northern Mexico might be expected to…Using the Map #1 (will be provided), observe that the most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa is…On the continent of Africa, the great number of languages results from…The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily fromUsing the Map #2, observe that the Dutch language is from the branch of Indo-European known as…Scandinavian languages such as Norwegian and Swedish all derive from which Indo-European language branch?Which language is NOT a romance language?While Hindi is India's official language, this language is a secondary official language.India's 22 so-called scheduled languages are representative of India's…The first speakers of the language that evolved into English were tribes that lived in present-day…Russian is part of what language branch?English is part of which language branch?English is part of which language family?Unlike the Slavic languages which split into three branches, Romance languages form one branch because…Romance branch languages have achieved worldwide importance because…The language spoken by soldiers stationed throughout the Roman Empire was known as…According to Colin Renfrew's research, Indo-European languages diffused across Europe…Colin Renfrew's research constitutes much of the ________ Hypothesis.The Kurgans, identified as the first Proto-Indo-European speakers by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas…The Nomadic Warrior Theory and the Sedentary Farmer Theory have been developed to explain the common ancestry of…Both the Angles and the Normans contributed to the development of the English language, because they…In fourteenth century England, the Statute of Pleading of 1362 represents a move to change the official language from ________ to English.While other influences continue today, English has its primary roots in(name) prescribed a series of ethical principles for daily life based on li meaning propriety,(name) writings emphasized mystical aspects of life based on Tao.Followers of primal indigenous ethnic religions do NOT…Animism isUsing the Map #3, what explains the disappearance of African traditional religions between 1900 and 2010?Most of the religions with at least one million adherents originated on which continent?Juche is a young religion confined to…Cao Dai was granted legal status in 1997, increasing this country's adherents.(name of religion) is a nineteenth century, universalizing religion established through abolition of racial, class and religious prejudiceJainism is concentrated in which South Asian country?This ethnic religion is also regarded as a cultural feature in Japan.Both the Baha'i faith and Zoroastrianism have their roots in which Southwest Asian nation?Of this list, which is the oldest religion?Of this list, which is the youngest religion?The belief in the existence of only one god is…The split between the Roman Catholic branch and the Orthodox branch of Christianity was due to a(n)…Protestantism originated withThe core of Islamic beliefs rests onThe core of Islamic faith rests on two principles that are geographic including prayer in the direction of Mecca (salat). What is the other pillar that is distinctly geographic?(name of a language) is the lingua franca of the Muslim world.This Arabic word for migration is also used to describe Mohammed's flight from persecution…Buddhism is founded on the Four Noble Truths, which include all but…Which is the correct chronological sequencing of Buddhism's branches?Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasize Buddha'sFollowers of which religious branch do not trace their origin to Abraham?Immediately after World War II, new political boundaries resulted in…Yugoslavia's nationality (How?)As a crime against humanity, ethnic cleansing is defined by the United Nations as involving all but which of the following?The Serbian policy against Bosnian Muslims ultimately…Balkanization is the fragmentation of political space along ________ lines.Aerial photography in the Balkans was critical in…Serbian ethnic cleansing in Kosovo led to…Kosovo was under minority political control of…Most of the conflict in Africa is widespread because of…What lies at the root of the conflicts in the Sudan?The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called…Hutu and Tutsi conflict is most closely associated with genocide in which African nation?President Barack Obama is a good example of the…Ethnicity is important because…The largest Hispanic/Latino groups in the United States are from which two countries?The largest numbers of Asian Americans are descended from immigrants from…Race is often described as…Indigenous Canadians and Americans grouped by ethnic identity include all but which group?Which of the following does the United States Census Bureau not consider a race?According to the United States Census Bureau, a Mexican American might also be considered a member of which races?The traits that characterized the now generally rejected classification of ________ are not place specific… ................
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