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Unit 2- Quiz 2 AP Human Geography Flashcards

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What is an Ashkenazim Jew and what is an example of them?

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One of two major ancestral groups of Jewish people whose ancestors lived in France and Central and Eastern Europe, including Germany, Poland, and Russia. Their DNA traced to Eastern and Central Europe.

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What is the bible and what are some examples of the bible?

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  1. the Christian scriptures, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments.
  2. the Jewish scriptures, consisting of the Torah or Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiography or Writings.
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What is a cult and what is an example of a cult?

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A cult is a system or group of people who practice excessive devotion to a figure, object, or belief system. An example of this is the KKK.

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What is denomination and what is an example of it?

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Denomination is a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. For example, denominations of Christianity are East Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox.

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What is Dharma and Karma and whats an example of them?

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Dharma is a key concept in Hinduism which is defined as one’s duties or obligations in life. Karma is included in religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism and it is the notion that every action a person takes, good or bad, has a consequence in the future. For example Dharma could be your duty to preach a church, and your Karma could be an eye for an eye.

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What is diaspora and what’s an example of it?

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Diaspora is a community of people who are dispersed throughout the world, retain their culture, ethnicity, religion, etc. For example Irish people are a part of this because of the Great Famine that displaced tons of Irish people.

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What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?

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The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest church in Christianity, their beliefs are of God showing himself as Jesus Christ and the belief of the incarnation of God and his crusifixation and resurection.

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What is an ethnic religion and whats an example of an ethnic religion?

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Ethnic religions are religions that appeal only to one group or one culture. An example of this is Judaism and Hinduism.

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What is Feng Shui?

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Feng Shui is the Chinese art and science of the placing of tombs, cities, buildings, dwellings, etc.

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What is Fundamentalism/Extremism?

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Fundamentalism is a strict literal interpretation of a religious text. Extremism is religious fundamentalism carried to the point of violence.

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What is Hajj?

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Hajj is a pilgramage to Mecca, preformed as a duty by Muslims.

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What is interfaith boundaries?

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Interfaith boundaries are the boundaries between the world’s major faiths, such as Christianity, Muslim, and Buddhism.

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What are Intrafaith Boundaries?

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Intrafaith boundaries describes the boundaries within a major religion.

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What is a Jihad and what’s an example of it?

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A jihad represents either a personal or collective struggle on the part of Muslims to live up the religious standards set by the Qu’ran.

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What is the Koran/Quran?

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The Quran is a sacred text, or the word of God for the Islamic religion.

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What is liturgy and what’s an example of litergy?

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Liturgy is a form or formulary according to which public religious worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted. An example of this is the Catholic service when the Eucharist (wine and crackers, also known as the blood and body of Christ) is given.

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What is militant fundamentalism?

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The militant fundamentalism is an organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture.

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What are minarets?

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Minarets are a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.

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What is monotheism and what’s an example of it?

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Monotheism is the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. For example, Christians believe that there is only one God.

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What is polytheism and what’s an example of polytheism?

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Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god. For example, in Hinduism they believe that there are multiple gods.

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What is proselytize, and what’s an example of it?

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To proselytize someone you convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.

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What is a protestant, and what’s an example of a protestant?

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A protestant is a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches.

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What is reincarnation, and what’s an example of reincarnation?

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Reincarnation is the rebirth of a soul in a new body. An example of reincarnation is, when Jesus was reincarnated from his tomb.

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What is religion?

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Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

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What is the Roman Catholic Church?

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The Roman Catholic Church is a church where it is governed by a hierarchy with the pope at the top and, at the lower levels, bishops and priests.

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What are sacred sites and what is an example of a sacred site?

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A sacred site is a place that is thought of as sacred (or holy) to a particular religion. For example, the Ganges River in India

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What is a sect?

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A sect is a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong. (NOT A CULT)

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What is secularism and what’s an example of it?

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The idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on earth, not to accommodate the prescriptions of a deity and promises of a comfortable afterlife.

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What are Sephardic Jews?

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Sephardic (or Sepharadi) Jews also Sephardim or Hispanic Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula. They are decendants from iberian jews.

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What is the Sharia law?

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Sharia acts as a code for living that all Muslims should adhere to, including prayers, fasting and donations to the poor

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What is Shintoism?

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A polytheistic and animistic religion, Shinto revolves around supernatural entities called the kami. Originates from Japan.

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What is Shiite Muslim?

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Shīʿa Islam is the second largest branch of Islam. Shiites consider Ali and the leaders who came after him as imams.

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What is Sunni Muslim?

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Sunni, Arabic Sunnī, member of one of the two major branches of Islam, the branch that consists of the majority of that religion’s adherents. Sunni Muslims hold the belief that they must have faith in Allah and his prophets, believe in the righteous deeds presented in the Quran,

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What does syncretic mean, and whats an example of it?

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Syncretism is the blending of cultures and ideas from different places.
A good example of syncretism comes from Japan with the blending of religious practices of the Buddhist and Shinto.

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What is Taoism?

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A Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( fl. 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety.

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What is the Torah?

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The Torah is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In that sense, Torah means the same as Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses. It is also known in the Jewish tradition as the Written Torah.

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What is a tribal religion?

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Tribal religion is based on oral traditions. The tribes express their beliefs in everyday language. Their rituals are aimed at solving day to day problems of life. Objects of worship are things of nature such as trees, rivers, mountain, sun, moon and earth.

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What is a universalizing religion?

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Universalizing religions offer belief systems that are attractive to the universal population.

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What is Zionism?

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A movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

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What is affinity segregation?

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Affinity segregation is the Process by which people group and live with people more like themselves in terms of culture, ethnicity or race.

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What is barriorization?

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Barriorization is the dramatic increase in Hispanic. population in a given neighborhood.

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What is blockbusting?

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Blockbusting is A process by which real estate agents. convince white property owners to sell. their houses at low prices because of. fear that persons of color will soon move.

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What is a caste

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A caste or the caste system is a system in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth.

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What is child marriage?

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Child marriage is a violation of human rights, but is all too common. Marriage before the age of 18 is a fundamental violation of human rights.

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What is conventional masculinity?

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Conventional masculinity is the expected gender roles of men; powerful, providing for family, lack emotion, strong, works more, etc. dowry death.

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What is dowry death?

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Dowry deaths are the deaths of young women who are murdered or driven to suicide by continuous harassment and torture by husbands and in-laws in an effort to extort an increased dowry.

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What is an ethnic enclave?

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An ethnic enclave is a geographical area where a particular ethnic group is spatially clustered and socially and economically distinct from the majority group.

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What is an ethnic island?

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An ethnic island is a small rural area settled by a single, distinctive ethnic group that placed its imprint on the landscape.

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What is an ethnic neighborhood?

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

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What is the ethnic succession theory?

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Ethnic succession theory is a theory in sociology stating that ethnic and racial groups entering a new area may settle in older neighborhoods or urban areas until achieving economic parity with certain economic classes.

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What is ethnicity?

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Ethnicity is identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.

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What is feminism?

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Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.

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What is gender?

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Gender refers to the differences between men and women. Although gender is commonly used interchangeably with sex, within the social sciences it often refers to specifically social differences, known as gender roles in the biological sciences.

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What does gendered mean?

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Gendered spaces are areas in which particular genders of people, and particular types of gender expression, are considered welcome or appropriate, and other types are unwelcome or inappropriate.

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What is a gender-empowerment measure?

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The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is a measure of inequalities between men’s and women’s opportunities in a country.

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What is gender-related development?

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Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) Compares the level of development of women with that of both sexes.

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What is the Ghetto?

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A “ghetto” is an area of a city in which people of an ethnic minority are confined either by official government policy or by economic and social obstacles that make it difficult for people of that ethnicity to exist outside of the ghetto.

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What does heteronormative mean?

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Heteronormative. Denoting or relating to a world view that promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation.

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What does hispanic mean?

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the term “Hispanic” the US government came up with this term as a inoffensive way to label people who come from spanish-speaking countries.

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What does homonormative mean?

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Homonormative. social spaces in which LGBTQ identities are dominant.

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What is human trafficking?

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Human Trafficking. The illegal trade of human beings, a modern-day form of slavery, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or involuntary military combat.

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What does identity mean?

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identity. how people make sense of themselves and how they see themselves at different scales.

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What does invasion and succesion mean?

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Invasion and Succession. Process by which new immigrants to a city. move to and dominate or take over areas or. neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant. groups.

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What does Latino mean?

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Latino means a person of Latin American origin or descent, in particular a man or boy.

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What is Milwaukee and segregation?

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The Milwaukee metropolitan area is often classified as the most racially segregated metropolitan area in the United States.

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What does prostitution mean?

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the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment.

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What is race?

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Race: The categorization of humans into groups based physical characteristics or ancestry.

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