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culture

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social behavior and norms beliefs

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custom

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traditional way of behaving at a time

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ethnic group

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social group who share common characteristic

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cultural norms

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shared expectations and rules within society

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popular culture

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practices and beliefs popular in society

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folk culture

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practices and beliefs In rural or small areas

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cultural taboos

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unwritten rules dicatate and consider appropratnes

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cultural diffusion

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cultural traits spread from 1 to another

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culture hearth

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place where culture originates

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globalization

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growing independence of worlds economics culture and population

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ethnicity

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group of people with common nationally

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cultural assimilation

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minoity group leaves behind traditional culture to apapt to another

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ethnocentrism

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person judges culture by how close theirs is to theirs

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monotheism

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1 god

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henotheism

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worship 1 god but acknolwdege existence of other gods

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secular

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no religion

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agnostic

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believe of supernatural

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atheism

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no beliefs in god

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nontheism

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universe in god or the same

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sect

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subgroup of large religion

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denomination

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subgroup if religion has same name

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orthodox

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very religious

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diaspora

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people who have dispersed from homeland and spread out all throughout the country

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race

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division on physical

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ethnicity

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language and ansecory

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nationality

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citizenship to nation

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three monotheisic religions

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-judism
-islam
-christianity

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Islam

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Submission to Alah
Muhammad
Moses, Jesus, Abraham
this the one where they worship in the big thing with the big black box in the middle

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5 pillars of islam

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fasting
ritual prayer
faith
alms (charity)
pilgrimage

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Islam sacred text

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Qur’an

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Islam place of worship

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Mosque

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Judism

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Founded by Abraham
Jerusalem is holiest city
waiting for messiah to come
kosher
Ten Commandments

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Judism place of worship

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synagog

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Judism sacred text

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Torah (old testament)

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Christanity

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Jesus of Nazareth
Son of God, born without sin
Crucifed

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Buddhism

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Nirvana, Karma, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, temple

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Hinduism

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Karma, Dharma, reincarnation, Caste System, temple, Moshka

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Democracy

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people elect others to set policy and make laws.

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Monarch

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power to rule is inherited from the previous generation

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Dictatorship

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a form of government in which a person or a small group rules with almost unlimited power.

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Communism

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the government or the whole community owns these things. Everyone is supposed to share the wealth that they create.

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oligarchy

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government by the few

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theocracy

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ran by religous leaders