Give Short Answers to the Following Questions:
1. what has been the downfall of authoritarian governments throughout the world?
2. Refer to the Current Issues box titled, "Will Cultural Diversity Disappear in a Rapid-Transit, Telecommunicating World?" How are methods of travel and communication making us all more alike? Why do he authors propose that cultural differences will not disappear?
3. How do discovery and invention differ from each other?
4. Why is it that well educated, upwardly mobile people adopt new ideas and inventions more quickly than the people who need them the most?
5. Compare direct contact diffusion, intermediate contact diffusion, and stimulus diffusion.
6. What is acculturation? How did the Spanish practice it in their conquest of Mexico over four hundred years ago?
7. Describe and explain the four conditions that may exist to give rise to rebellion.
8. The expansion of which religion let to huge cultural changes in the 8th century A.D?
9. What economic system has recently swept the world?
10. How does educational culture change lead to culture loss in Native American populations?
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