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Ch 8 Vocab

TermDefinition
Language Family A group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth, or region of origin
Isolate A language that is unrelated to any other known language
Language Branch A collection of languages within a language family that share a common origin and separated from other branches in the same family several thousand years ago
Language Group Languages within a language branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past and have vocabularies with a high degree of overlap
Universalizing Religions A religion that tried to appeal to all humans and is open to membership
Christianity A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ that began in what is now the West Bank and Israel around the beginning of the common era and has spread to all continents
Islam A universalizing religion based on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad that originated in the hearth of Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century
Buddhism The oldest universalizing religion, which arose from a hearth in NE India sometime between the mid-6th and mid-4th BCE and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha
Sikhism The newest universalizing religion, founded by Guru Nanak, who lived from 1469 to 1539, in the Punjab region of NW India
Ethnic Religions A religion that is closely tied with a particular ethnic group often living in a particular place
Hinduism An ethnic religion that arose a few thousand years ago in South Asia and is closely tied to India
Judaism The world's first monotheistic religion, which developed among the Hebrew people of SW Asia about 4,000 years ago
Secularized Focused on worldly rather than spiritual concerns
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