Ap Flashcards

1
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What are two basic groups of material culture?

A

Folk and popular culture

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2
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In which major religion is eating cow a taboo

A

Hinduism

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3
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Who invented lacrosse

A

Native Americans

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4
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Why do people in Thailand sleep with there heads faceing east?

A

To avoid evil the direction of death

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5
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What is dowry?

A

A gift from the family of the bride to a family of the groom (husband)

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6
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How many people speak English fluently?

A

1/2 billion

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7
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What is the most spoken language?

A

Mandarin (china)

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8
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How many people speak an Indo-European language?

A

3.5 billion

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9
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What separates British English from American English?

A

Pronunciation and spelling and vocabulary

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10
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Name the four major Indo European language branches

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Romance, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian

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11
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What is the most spoken language under the Indo Iranian branch and where is it most spoken?

A

Hindi in India

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12
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What is the largest lingua franca in the formal Soviet union

A

Rushing

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13
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What original language did the Romans languages come from?

A

Latin

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14
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What to European romance languages are spoken by 90% of speakers outside of your?

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Spanish and Portuguese

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15
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Explain how Spanish and Portuguese became the lingua franca in Latin America.

A

These two languages diffuse to the Americas by Spanish and Portuguese exploration

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16
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How many languages are spoken in Nigeria

A

Over 200

17
Q

Name three lingua franca’s and identify a word that language is dominance

A

:English (North America west
:Europe),Arabic (the Middle East)
:Manderin (China)
:Russian (former Soviet states)

18
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No population of the world isChristian

A

Roughly 35%

19
Q

Belgium is divided into what two regions what is the language of each region?

A

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

20
Q

What percent of Christians is Roman Catholic

A

Roughly 50%

21
Q

What percent of Christian is producing know

A

Roughly 25%

22
Q

What percent of Christian is orthodox

A

Roughly 10%

23
Q

What percentage of the population in the western hemisphere is Christian

A

Roughly 90%

24
Q

What’s the percentage of Christian and Latin America is Catholic?

A

Roughly 94%

25
Q

Where are Catholics clustered in Anglo America?

A

Southwestern at Northwestern USA in Canadian province of Quebec

26
Q

What are the three largest protestant denominations in the North America

A

Baptist,Methodist, Pentecostal

27
Q

What percent of the worlds population follow Islam

A

Roughly 19 to 20% (1.3 billion)

28
Q

what are the two main branches of Islam

A

Sunni and Shiite

29
Q

What percent of muslims is Sunni?

A

Roughly 83%

30
Q

What is the oldest monotheistic religion

A

Judaism (3000)

31
Q

How many Jews are on this planet and where are they located

A

Roughly 14,000,000 6 million USA 4 million in Israel into million in the formal Soviet union and 2 million at elsewhere