Unit 5-7 of Ap Human Geography Flashcards

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1
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Literary Tradition

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System of writing communications

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Institutional Language

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Language used in education/work/mass media?government

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3
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What are the 2 largest language families?

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Indo European & Sino Tibetan

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4
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Romance languages history

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Language based on Vulgar Latin

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5
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Romance language examples

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French, Spanish, Italian, Portugeuse, and Romanian

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6
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English is part of the ____language family

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Indo-European

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7
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Standard VS Vulgar latin

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Vulgar Latin is no the standard literary form, but its spoken by the masses

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8
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Nomadic Warrior Thesis

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-Martin Gimbutus
-Kurgans
-Cattle

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9
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Sedentary Farmer Thesis

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C. Renfrew proposed it, 2,000 years before Kurgans , mostly near Anatolia

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10
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Lingua Franca

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Language mutually understood and commonly in trade by people who use different languages.

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11
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Formation of modern English

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Celtic->Latin->Germanic->Norse->French

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12
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Why has English achieved unprecedented global acceptance?

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its the lingua franca

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13
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British VS American English

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-Different Dialects
-American Plants and Animals
-Different Inventions
-NOAH WEBSTER

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14
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Universalizing Religion

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Religions that attempts to to appeal to all people not just certain ethnic groups

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15
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Example of Universalizing Religions

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Buddism. Christianity, Islam, Sikhism

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16
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Religions branch

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Large main division of a religion

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17
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Is Christianity a branch denomination or sect?

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Branch

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18
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Religion Denomination

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Unites local congregations into single, legal and administrative bodies

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19
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Is Methodist a branch, denomination, or sect?

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Denomination

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20
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Religious Sects

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small groups broken off from a denomination

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21
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Is BUMC an example of a branch, denomination, or sect?

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Sect

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22
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What are the two main branches of Islam

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Sunni & Shiite

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23
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What is the largest branch of Islam

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Sunni

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24
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Which branch of Islam dominates Iran

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Shiite

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25
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Is Buddhism a Universalizing religion or an ethnic religion

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universalizing

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26
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What is the reason for France’s growing Islamic Population

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former french colonies were dominantly Islamic

27
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What is the ethnic religion with the most adherents

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Hinduism

28
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How many Gods would you believe in if you practiced a polytheistic religion?

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multiple

29
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How many Gods would you worship if you practiced a monotheistic religion

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ONE

30
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What is a syncretic religion

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the combining of several religious traditions

31
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What is a Hajj

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A pilgrimidge to Meccah

32
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Who takes a Hajj

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Muslims

33
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Name the 3 holy places of Islam

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Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem

34
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What are the ways that Christianity has diffused or is diffusing?

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Relocation-Missionaries
Expansion-Romans

35
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Which religion is still dominant in the homeland of its founder

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Islam

36
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Why arew there so many Catholics in the American SouthWest

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It is very close to Mexico

37
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What are some of the characteristics of Hierarchial Religions

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Religion in which a central authority excersizes a high degree of control

38
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Give an example of a Hierarchial Religion

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Catholic

39
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What is an autonomous religion

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a religion that doesn’t share a central authority, buy shares ideas and cooperates

40
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What is cosmogony

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set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe

41
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What religions view Jerusalem as a Holy Place

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Islam, Christianity, and Judaism

42
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What do religious burial practices deal with?

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Beliefs, environment, and topography

43
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What is race

A

physical trait

44
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What is ethnicity

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Cultural Trait

45
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What is nationality

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legal trait (citizen vs noncitizen)

46
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The two largest Hispanic groups in the Us trace their ancestry to what two places?

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Puerto Rico and MExico

47
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Is Hispanic a race?

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No its an ethnicity

48
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Compare African slave migration to Hispanic/Asian migration

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African slaves were forced while Hispanic/Asian American were voluntary

49
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White Flight

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Emigration of white Americans to an area anticipating blacks to immigrate to

50
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Blockbusting

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when real estate agents convinced white families living near black areas to sell there houses at a low $

51
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What did the Plessy VS Ferguson do

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Created the “Seperate but Equal” Clause

52
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What did the Brown vs Board of Education do

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Repealed the “Seperate but Equal” Clause

53
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Apartheid

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Legal seperation of races into different geographic areas in South Africa

54
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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that encouraged segregation

55
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Who were the Kurds

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An ethnic group that felt that the a had self determination (the right to govern themselves)

56
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Nationalism

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Loyalty/devotion to a certain nationality

57
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Nation State

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State that only has one religious or ethnic group

58
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What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~CBR drops drastically
~ CDR continues to fall
~Moderate NIR

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Stage 3

59
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What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~Still a very high CBR with lowered CDR
~High NIR

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Stage 2

60
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What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~CDR is higher than CBR and the population begins to decline

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Stage 5

61
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What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~High CBR and CDR
~NIR of 0

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Stage 1

62
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What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~CBR declines to where its back equal to CDR
~Zero Population

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Stage 4

63
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Do you understand that this should NOT be the only thing that you use to study and that units 1-4 are not covered (other than the DTM in unit 2)

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YES