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Animism

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Most prevailing an African and the Americas doctrine in which the world is seen as being infused with spiritual and even supernatural powers

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Acculturation

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The adoption of cultural traits such as language by one group under the influence of another

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Artifact

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Any item that represents the material aspect of culture

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Buddhism

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System of belief that seeks to explain alternate realities for all people, such as the nature of suffering and the path towards self realization

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Cast system

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System in India that gives every Indian particular place in the social I are key from birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the cast system in their next life through their actions are karma after many lives of good karma, they may boo be relieved from the cycle life and when their place in heaven

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Christianity

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The world’s most widespread religion. Christianity is a monotheistic Universal religion that uses missionaries to expand its members worldwide. These three major categories of Christianity are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and eastern orthodox.

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Creole

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A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it

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Cultural complex

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The group of traits that define a particular culture

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Cultural extinction

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Obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of three

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Cultural geography

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The subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space

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Cultural hearth

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Locations on earth’s surface for specific cultures first arrived

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Cultural imperialism

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The dominance of one culture over another

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Cultural trait

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The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture

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Culture

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A total way of life held in common by group of people, including learned features such as language, ideology, behavior, technology, and government

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Custom

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Practice followed by the people of a particular cultural group

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Denomination

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A particular religious group, usually associated with differing Protestant belief systems

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Dialect

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Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from the parent form.

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Diaspora

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People that come from a common at Nick background but who is in a different region outside of their home or their ethnicity

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Eccume

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The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans

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Environmental determinism

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Doctrine thst claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions

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Esperanto

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A constructed international auxiliary language incorporating aspects of numerous linguistic traditions to create universal means of communication

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Ethnic cleansing

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The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from the country or region either by forced migration or genocide

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Ethnic neighborhood

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Area within the city containing members of the same ethnic background

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Ethnic religion

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Religion that is identified with particular ethnic or tribal group and that does not seek new converts

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Ethnicity

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Refers to a group of people who share common identity

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Evangelical religions

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Religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system

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Folk culture

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Refers to constellation of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of every day existence in the traditional societies in which they developed

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Fundamentalism

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The strict adherence to a particular doctrine

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Genocide

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A premeditated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group

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Ghetto

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Segregated ethnic area with a city

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Global religion

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Religion in which members are numerous and widespread and their doctrines might appeal to different people from any religion in the globe

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Hinduism

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A cohesive and unique society, my surveillance in India, integrate spiritual beliefs with daily practices in official institutions such the cast system

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Indo-European family

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Language family including Germanic and romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world

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Islam

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A monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one God, Allah, and that Mohammed was allahs prophet. Islam is based on ancient city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Mohammed

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Isoglosses

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Geographically boundary lines were different linguistic features me

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Judaism

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The first major monotheistic religion. It is based in the sense of ethnic identity, and it adherents tend to form tightknit communities wherever they live

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Language extinction

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This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language first developed, but the process of language station has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years

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Language family

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A collection of many languages, all of which came from the same original tongue long ago, that it since Evolved different characteristics

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Language group

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Set of languages with the relative recent common origin and many similar characteristics

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Lingua franca

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Extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other, more complex languages usually used for quick and efficient communication

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Literacy

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The ability to read and write

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Local culture

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He said a common experiences or customs that shape identity of the place and the people who live there. Local cultures are often the subjects are often the subjects of preservation of economic development efforts

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Local religion

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Religions that are spiritually bound to particular region

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Minority

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A racial or ethnic groups smaller then and differing from the majority race or ethnicity in a particular area or region

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Missionary

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A person of particular faith that travels in order to recruit new members into the faith represented

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Monotheism

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The worship of only one God

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Multicultural

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Having to do with many cultures

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Official language

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Language in which all government business occurs in a country

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Pidgin

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Language that may develop into groups of people with different languages me. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language

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Pilgrimage

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A journey to a place of religious importance

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Polyglot

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A multilingual state

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Polytheism

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The worship of more than one God

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Pop culture

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Dynamic culture based on language, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine made goods

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Race

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A group of human beings distinguish by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics

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Romance languages

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Any of the language is derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian, and Portuguese

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Shaman

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The single person who takes on the rolls of priest, counselor, and physician and as a conduit to the supernatural world in a shamanistic culture

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Sino Tibetan family

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Language areas that spreads through most of southeast Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese, and curry

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Syncretic

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Traditions that barrow from both the past and present

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Toponym

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Place names given to certain features in the land such a settlements, green features, and streams

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Tradition

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A cohesive collection of customs this within the cultural group

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Transculturation

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The expansion of cultural traits throughout diffusion, adoption, and other related process

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Universalizing religion

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Religion that seeks to unite people from all over the globe

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