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AP Human Geo Unit 3 Flashcards

Master unit 3

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What is:

Culture

(The same …, …, …, and behaviors transmitted by a …)

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The same practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society

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What are:

Cultural Traits

(products and practices)

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The collected products and practices of a culture group/culture region

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What is:

Material Culture

(items people make…………, such as …, …, homes, ………)

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Items people make/often give value to, such as clothing, cars, homes, types of food

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What is:

Nonmaterial Culture

(Important id…/pri… in a … such as different .cul…..)

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important ideas/principles in a society, such as different cultural traditions

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What is:

Folk Culture

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Culture that’s traditionally practiced by small, homogenous groups, living in relative isolation from other groups

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What is:

Popular Culture

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Culture found in large, heterogeneous society that share certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics. Often spread across many regions

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What is:

Ethnocentrism

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Judging/making assumptions about the other cultures based on your own norms

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What is:

Cultural Relativism

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Not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right/wrong, strange/normal.

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What is the:

Cultural Landscape

(physically see what?)

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The ability to physically see elements of a culture in a place

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What is the:

Centripetal Force

(Bind together)

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Unify a state (provide stability, strengthen, bind together, create solidarity)

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What is the:

Centrifugal Force

(Forces that what…?)

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Forces that divide a state (Leading to balkanization/devolution, disrupt internal order, destabilize, weaken)

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What is the:

Core-Domain-Sphere Model

(A model that shows the place where … of culture traits that … a region is …)

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A model that shows the place where concentration of culture traits that chracterizes a region is greatest

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What is a:

Cultural Region

(characterized by a what?)

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A geographic region that is characterized by a predominantly uniform culture

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What is:

Colonialism

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Rule by an independent power over a weaker and forreign people and place

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What is:

Imperialism

(Used to describe a situation in which … …/… …… is impressed…….)

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Used to describe a situation in which cultural and/or economic dominance is impressed on one country by another (Empire).

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What is a:

Lingua Franca

(A language that…?)

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A language that faciliates communication/trade between people who speak different native languages

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What is:

Creolization

(The process in which … European, and … traditions have … with each over over a prolonged … to create new … in the ……)

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The process in which Amerindian (another term for Native Americans), European, and African traditions and customs have blended with each other over a prolonged period to create new cultures in the New World.

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What is:

Cultural Convergence

(Come together)

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When different cultures become similar or even come together

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What is:

Cultural divergence

(Go in a different direction)

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When a culture seperates or goes in a different direction

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What is a:

Language

(A system of … throught speech, a collection of … that a group of people … to have ………)

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A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understand to have the same meaning

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What is a:

Language Family

(A collection of … related through a ………)

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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language

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22
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What is:

Literary Tradtition

(refers to a system of written what?)

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A system that refers to a system of written communication

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What is an:

Official Language

(designate at least … language to be used for …)

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A language that many countries designate. It’s at least one language to be used for official documents and public objects - e.g., road signs and money

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What is an:

Indigenous Language

(a language of … whose territory has been ……..)

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A language of inhabitants whose territory has been colonized by another culture group

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What is a:

Language Branch

(Collection of … within a family related through a ….)

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Collection of languageas within a family related through a common ancestral language

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What is a:

Language Group

(Collection of … within a … that share a … in the relatively … and display similar …)

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Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary

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What is a:

Dialect

(A regional … of a … distinguised by distinctive …….)

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A regional variation of a language distinguised by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

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What is an:

Isogloss

(… of where … are used can be mapped such as a … usage …)

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Boundaries of where regional words are used can be mapped such as a word usage boundary

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What is a:

Univeralizing Religion

(Attempt to be global by ………)

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Attempt to be global by appealing to all people regardless of location/culture

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30
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What is an:

Ethnic Religion

(Appearing to a group of people)

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A religion that appeals primarily to one group of people living in one place.

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31
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What is:

Atheism

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The belief that God does not exist

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32
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What is:

Agnosticism

(Nothing can known about…)

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The belief that nothing can be known about wether God exists

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33
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What is:

Monotheism

(one God)

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Belief that there is only one God

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34
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What is:

Polytheism

(many Gods)

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Belief that there is/are many Gods

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35
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What is:

Syncretism

(blending/combining)

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Blending/combining of several traditions

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36
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What is:

Animism

(An … religion whose followers believe that ………… have spirits and conscious life)

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An ethnic religoon whose followers believe that inainate objects/natural eventas, such as natural disasters, have spirits and conscious life.

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What are:

Scared Spaces

(Places of … are … structures that physically an… religion to l…)

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Places of worship are scared structures that physically anchor religion to landscape

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38
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What are:

Pilgrimages

(Journeys, religious)

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Journeys for religoious purposes

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39
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What is a:

Taboo

(A … on … imposed by …….)

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom(s)

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40
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What is:

Acculturation

(The adoption of certain … and social … of one … by another …)

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The adoption of certain cultural and social chracteristics of one society by another society

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41
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What is:

Assimilation

(The process through which people lose ……… such as …………… when they come into contact with …………)

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The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society/culture

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What is:

Syncretism

(The com… of different …. of …/…, which in turn create a new ………)

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The combination of different forms of belief/practice, which in turn create a new belief/practice

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What is:

Multiculturalism

(The ability to maintain …… (…, religiously, …) within a community)

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The ability to maintain culturally diverse (linguistically, religiously, ethnically) within a community

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Hey

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