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Ancient Chinese Cohort Culture/s


 * 1) What are the mentifacts of each culture?


 * 1) What are the sociofacts of each culture?


 * 1) What are the artifacts of each culture?


 * 1) What are the habits of important individuals within tribes? What are the customs of tribal members belonging to certain tribes?


 * 1) What is the cultural realm (shared mentifacts, sociofacts, artifacts) of the entire cohort culture?


 * 1) What is the cultural complex (cultural traits with a spatial extent over a region) of individual tribes (i.e. music, sports, games, ‘technology’)?


 * 1) What were the circumstances of the different cultures (i.e. conflicts, interactions, etc.) before the Happening?


 * 1) Did any tribes embrace the idea of multiculturalism, if this idea has presented itself to them before (i.e. if there was conflict)? If not, what part of their culture makes them reject this idea/the reason for never actually formulating this idea before?


 * 1) What was the dominant/popular culture in this world in the past?


 * 1) What was the dominant/popular culture in this world in the present, if there is one?


 * 1) Are there taboos in the dominant culture? Individual cultures?


 * 1) Are there taboos in the Yuan Jin tribe culture?


 * 1) What is the cultural landscape of the former tribes?


 * 1) What is the cultural landscape forming of the tribes of the now? Which cultural traits are causing these changes?


 * 1) Is there visible sequent occupancy between the past and the now for these cultures of the different tribes as a whole?


 * 1) How do ideas/concept diffuse in individual cohorts? Within multiple cohorts?


 * 1) What are the cultural cores/domains/spheres for different cultures/tribal influences?


 * 1) What is considered the cultural hearth for the most general culture of the regions?


 * 1) Do the tribes consider themselves nations? Does their nationalism act as a centrifugal force or centripetal force?


 * 1) Was there ever the concept of dowry for women? Were there consequences?


 * 1) Were there ever matriarchal values somewhere in history?


 * 1) Where did the former tribes originate? How did they expand to become individual cultures?


 * 1) How many languages are spoken in individual states? Which states are bilingual or multilingual? Which states are monolingual?


 * 1) Are there official languages? How have they impacted cultures separately?


 * 1) Do the languages of the cohort carry affiliations from former outer influences (i.e. forming creoles, forming pidgins, etc.)?


 * 1) Do the religions of the cohort carry affiliations from former outer influences?


 * 1) Are there distinct dialects for languages? How are they distinctive? How did they develop?


 * 1) Are there extinct languages? Do any tribes speak revived languages, and if so, which ones?


 * 1) Does a tribe speak an isolated language? If so, which one? If not, what caused all languages to be influenced by one another?


 * 1) Do all the languages in this region belong to the same language family? Which one?


 * 1) If the languages in this region do not belong in the same language family, what are the separate language families? How did these distinctions develop? What are the isoglosses?


 * 1) Is there a lingua franca/unifying language for the cohorts? Does the cohort practice linguistic heterogeneity or homogeneity?


 * 1) Which tribes have an animistic religion?


 * 1) Which religions are autonomous?


 * 1) Which religions are hierarchal?


 * 1) What are the branches of religion for each religion in the cohort?


 * 1) What is the cosmogony of the tribe/s according to magic? According to their religion/s?


 * 1) Which religions are universalizing? Which are ethnic?


 * 1) Which religions are inclusive? Which are non-inclusive?


 * 1) Which sects do the religion/s occupy?


 * 1) What are the diasporas of certain religions, if at all?


 * 1) Which tribes have fundamental religions?


 * 1) Which tribes have secular religions?


 * 1) Were pilgrimages required of certain religions? If so, to where?


 * 1) Are there interfaith boundary conflicts for religion? Intrafaith conflicts?


 * 1) What are the religious laws, if there are any?


 * 1) Which religions are monotheistic? Polytheistic?


 * 1) What tribes are generally atheist, if any?


 * 1) What are the holy places of the religions? Is there conflict over territory for those places?


 * 1) What are the sacred spaces of religious structures, if any?


 * 1) Are there syncretic religions? If so, which?


 * 1) Is toponymy used from either religion or cultural values? Where, how, and by whom?

-Galaxian-