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Unit 3 Test - The Cultural Landscape Flashcards

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What is a cultural landscape?

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Structures within the physical landscape caused by human activity

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What 3 elements make up a cultural landscape?

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  • Agriculture and industry
  • Religious and linguistic signs
  • Landscaping
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Why do geographers study cultural landscape?

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Because it reflects the belief, attitudes and identities of an area

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What are five things we can tell from cultural landscapes?

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  • Ethnicity
  • Gender
  • Religion
  • Conservation
  • History
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Ethnicity

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A group of people that had a common ancestry or culture

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Five was that ethnicity can be seen on a cultural landscape

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  • Language
  • Religious buildings or imagery
  • Specialty stores
  • Restaurants
  • Markets
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Ethnic enclave

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Smaller ethnically homogenous area situates within a larger and ore divers cultural area

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What are cultural enclaves associated with?

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Step migration

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What can cultural enclaves be a response to

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Discrimination

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What are cultural enclaves a mean of?

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Cultural preservation

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Gender roles

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A role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender

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What are gender norms determined by

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Prevailing cultural norms

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What are three ways that gender can be seen on the landscape?

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  • Signs
  • Specialty stores
  • Female-centric businesses
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What are four ways religion can be seen on the landscape?

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  • Religious budlings/churches/temples
  • Symbols
  • Imagery
  • Burial places ect.
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What is an Indigenous reservation?

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An area set aside by the government for the specific use of Indigenous peoples

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Indigenous reservation have ___ and are usually located near ___

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  • Continuous history
  • Economic-centric areas
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What can architecture tell us about a society?

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Presence of status and monuments can tell us how a place views its history and society feels about its past

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What can land tell us about a society?

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  • Agriculture
  • Natural resource management
  • Parks and reserves
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Sequent occupancy

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Idea that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cultural heritage

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Monotheistic

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Religion worshiping one god

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Polytheistic

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Religion worshipping many gods

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Ethnic religion

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Religion associated with a certain ethnicity

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Universalizing religion

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A type of religion meant to be applicable to all people

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Hearth

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Place of origin for a widespread cultural trend

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Charter group

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A group representing the most typical culture of host community

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Dispora

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The spread of people from their original host land

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Missionary

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Someone who is a member of a religious group who is sent to promote that groups faith or beliefs

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Animism

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Belief that objects, places, and creatures a;; posses spiritual essence

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Secularism

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Principle of separation of the state from religious institutions

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Theocracy

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Form of government that believes god/gods/ or deities are in charge

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Fundamentalism

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Strict following of religious scriptures pr any set of rules or beliefs

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Acculturation

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Adaption of new cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another while still maintaining elements of their own culture

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Assimilation

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Absorbing one cultural group into another until you can no longer differentiate the two

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Assimilation is almost ___ achieved

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Never

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Syncretism

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When traits from two cultures fuse to create a new cultural trait

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Multiculturalism

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Coexistence of several cultures in one society with all cultures being valued and worthy of practice

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Nativism

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Favoring those native to a country over immigrants

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Centripetal force

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Force that brings people together

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Examples of centripetal force

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  • Shared history
  • Common language
  • Nationalism
  • Multiculturalism
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Why do some languages diffuse widely and some do not diffuse at all?

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Because of the conquest of colonialism

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Centrifugal force

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Force that divides people

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Examples of centrifugal force

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  • Unfair treatment of certain ethnicities or cultural groups
  • Diversity
  • Nativism
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How did language lead to a culture clash in Canada?

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French and English were both declared official languages which caused tensions and separations in Canada, leading to Quebec wanting to leave Canada

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Ethnic cleansing

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Forced removal of a major ethnic group from a territory

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Genocide

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Deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular cultural or ethnic group with aim of destroying that group

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Linguists

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People who study languages

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Language family

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Languages related through common ancestry that existed long before history

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What is the largest language family?

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Ind-European

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Language branch

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Languages within a family, related through common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago

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Language group

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Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and are similar in vocabulary and grammar

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What is the proto-indo European language?

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Due to similarities in languages people believe that many language families descended from on e ancient language

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Official language

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Language designated by a country as their official language for documents, law, report, and public information

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Dialect

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Regional variations in languages distinguished by differences in vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

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Received pronunciation

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Standard form of British English Pronunciation

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Isogloss

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Words usage boundaries determined by collected data

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Pidgin language

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Simplified version of a language allowing two speakers to communicate

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Creolized language

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Language that a mixture of colonizer and native languages

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Lingua Franca

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Common language between speaker that speak different native languages

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Isolated language

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Language unrelated to any other language families

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Endangered language

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A language dying off because the speakers are dying an not teaching the newer generations

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Extinct language

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Language no longer spoken or used

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