AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocabularu Flashcards
Acculturation
adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
Architecture
the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
Artifacts
The material manifestation of culture, including tools, housing, systems of land use, clothing, etc. “What a culture uses”
Assimilation
the process of a person or group losing the cultural traits that made them distinct from the people around them
Branch
a major division within a religion
Caste System
a rigid set of social classes that provides privileges for the higher
classes and limits on the lower classes - a person is born in a
caste and castes only change upon reincarnation
Creole or creolized language
a language that began as a combination of two other languages and is spoken as the primary language of a group of people
Cultural convergence
when two cultures become more similar because of frequent interactions
Cultural divergence
when a culture splits into different cultures because of lack of interaction
Cultural relativism
the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be
understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged through the eyes of another culture
dialect
different forms of the same language used by groups that have
some different vocabulary and pronunciations
diaspora
the scattering of people from their homeland (especially the Jews from the Holy Land)
Indigenous (Folk/Ethnic) Culture
the cultural traditions that are generally held by a specific ethnic group, often localized in a specific area
Indigenous language
a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous people
Indigenous people
the original settlers of a given region, in contrast to groups that
have settled in the area more recently
