Geography Unit 3

Question 0

Animism

Answer 0

Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, doctrine in which the world is seen as being infuses with spiritual and even supernatural powers.

Question 1

Acculturation

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

Question 2

Artifact

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Any item that represents a material aspect of culture.

Question 3

Buddhism

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System of belief that seeks to explain ultimate realities for all people- such as the nature of suffering and the path toward self-realization.

Question 4

Caste system

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System in India that gives Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy form birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the caste system in their next life through their actions, or karma. After many lives of good karma, they may be relieved from the cycle of life and win their place in heaven.

Question 5

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. The three major categories of Christianity are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox.

Question 6

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.

Question 7

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 combining of the three.

Question 9

Cultural Geography

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

Question 10

Cultural Hearth

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Locations on earth’s surface where specific cultures first arose.

Question 11

Cultural Imperialism

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The dominance of one culture over another.

Question 12

Cultural Trait

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The specific customs that are part 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 group of people, including learned features such as language, ideology, behavior, technology, and government.

Question 14

Custom

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Practices followed by the people of a particular group.

Question 15

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 who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity.

Question 18

Ecumene

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The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans.

Question 19

Environmental Determinism

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A do fine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.

Question 20

Esperanto

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

Question 21

Ethnic Cleansing

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

Question 22

Ethnic neighborhood

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An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.

Question 23

Ethnic Religion

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

Question 24

Ethnicity

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Refers to a group of people who share a common identity.

Question 25

Evangelical Religions

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Religion in which and effort is made to spread particular belies system.

Question 26

Folk Culture

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Refers to a constellation of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday 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.

Question 28

Gender Inequality Index

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A United Nations index, introduced in 2010, which measures a country’s loss of achievement due to gender inequality, based on reproductive health, employment, and general empowerment.

Question 29

Genocide

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A premeditated effort to kill everyone fro. A particular ethnic group.

Question 30

Ghetto

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A segregated ethnic area within a city.

Question 31

Global Religion

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

Question 32

Hinduism

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A cohesive and unique society, most prevalent in India, that integrates spiritual beliefs with daily practices and occipital institutions Sha h as the caste system.

Question 33

Indo-European family

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Language family including the Germanic and Romance languages that is spoke by about 50% of the world’s people.

Question 34

Islam

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

Question 35

Isoglosses

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Geographical boundary lines where different linguistic features meet.

Question 36

Judaism

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The first major monotheistic religion. It based on a sense of ethnic identity and its adherents tend to for, tight-knit communities where they live.

Question 37

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 extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years.

Question 38

Language Family

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

Question 39

Language Group

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A set of languages with relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics.