Foundational Vocab & Geography Review

Question 1

Assimilation

Answer 1

merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups; to adopt the ways of another culture

Question 2

Artisans

Answer 2

A person skilled in a particular craft - one who uses traditional methods to create items.

Question 3

Autonomous

Answer 3

self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws. Independent of others and possessing a large degree of self-government

Question 4

Bureaucracy

Answer 4

system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government. Often a highly respected position.

Question 5

Circa

Answer 5

About: used for dates.

Question 5

Centralization

Answer 5

The power being centralized in one area.

Question 6

Codify

Answer 6

To catalogue or organize a set of laws, rules, etc, to a specific code.

Question 7

Commodity

Answer 7

An article of trade or commerce.

Question 8

Consolidation

Answer 8

A monarch’s attempt to centralize/streamline the gov’t.

Question 9

Cultural diffusion.

Answer 9

Spreading of cultural ideas from 1 to another.

Question 10

Culture.

Answer 10

A people’s unique way of life - through art, ideas, blah.

Question 11

Decentralization

Answer 11

More autonomous units that are smaller.

Question 12

Demography

Answer 12

the study of the size, growth, density, growth and other characteristics of human populations

Question 13

Diaspora

Answer 13

any group that has been dispersed outside of its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Question 14

Draw a picture of diaspora.

Answer 14

People being moved involuntarily out of their homeland.

Question 15

Draw a picture of codify

Answer 15

A law for a code.

Question 16

Doctrine

Answer 16

A belief set by religion/gov’t.

Question 17

Egalitarian

Answer 17

Equality in all areas.

Question 18

Epidemic

Answer 18

Outbreak of contagious disease that spreads rapidly.

Question 19

Gender.

Answer 19

Sexual identity especially in relation to society or culture

Question 20

Draw a picture of indigenous.

Answer 20

Native.

Question 21

Legitimacy

Answer 21

To rule by the principle of heredity or sanctioned right.

Question 22

Religion

Answer 22

Belief system that holds that divine powers control the environment and people’s futures.

Question 23

Sedentary

Answer 23

Settled, not migratory.

Question 24

Social hierarchy/class.

Answer 24

Hierarchical arrangement of people into sections of society.

Question 25

Static

Answer 25

Little change.

Question 26

State

Answer 26

politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation; or territory(ies) of a government.

Question 27

Draw a picture of syncretism.

Answer 27

Combination of different cultures resulting in one unique culture.

Question 28

Trans regional.

Answer 28

Exchange of goods, services, culture, and blah across political boundaries.