Ap Flashcards
(31 cards)
What are two basic groups of material culture?
Folk and popular culture
In which major religion is eating cow a taboo
Hinduism
Who invented lacrosse
Native Americans
Why do people in Thailand sleep with there heads faceing east?
To avoid evil the direction of death
What is dowry?
A gift from the family of the bride to a family of the groom (husband)
How many people speak English fluently?
1/2 billion
What is the most spoken language?
Mandarin (china)
How many people speak an Indo-European language?
3.5 billion
What separates British English from American English?
Pronunciation and spelling and vocabulary
Name the four major Indo European language branches
Romance, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian
What is the most spoken language under the Indo Iranian branch and where is it most spoken?
Hindi in India
What is the largest lingua franca in the formal Soviet union
Rushing
What original language did the Romans languages come from?
Latin
What to European romance languages are spoken by 90% of speakers outside of your?
Spanish and Portuguese
Explain how Spanish and Portuguese became the lingua franca in Latin America.
These two languages diffuse to the Americas by Spanish and Portuguese exploration
How many languages are spoken in Nigeria
Over 200
Name three lingua franca’s and identify a word that language is dominance
:English (North America west
:Europe),Arabic (the Middle East)
:Manderin (China)
:Russian (former Soviet states)
No population of the world isChristian
Roughly 35%
Belgium is divided into what two regions what is the language of each region?
Northern bell gym is considered the region of Flanders and they speak Flemish (Dutch) seven Belgium is considered a division of Wallonia and they speak French
What percent of Christians is Roman Catholic
Roughly 50%
What percent of Christian is producing know
Roughly 25%
What percent of Christian is orthodox
Roughly 10%
What percentage of the population in the western hemisphere is Christian
Roughly 90%
What’s the percentage of Christian and Latin America is Catholic?
Roughly 94%