Unit 5-7 of Ap Human Geography Flashcards
Literary Tradition
System of writing communications
Institutional Language
Language used in education/work/mass media?government
What are the 2 largest language families?
Indo European & Sino Tibetan
Romance languages history
Language based on Vulgar Latin
Romance language examples
French, Spanish, Italian, Portugeuse, and Romanian
English is part of the ____language family
Indo-European
Standard VS Vulgar latin
Vulgar Latin is no the standard literary form, but its spoken by the masses
Nomadic Warrior Thesis
-Martin Gimbutus
-Kurgans
-Cattle
Sedentary Farmer Thesis
C. Renfrew proposed it, 2,000 years before Kurgans , mostly near Anatolia
Lingua Franca
Language mutually understood and commonly in trade by people who use different languages.
Formation of modern English
Celtic->Latin->Germanic->Norse->French
Why has English achieved unprecedented global acceptance?
its the lingua franca
British VS American English
-Different Dialects
-American Plants and Animals
-Different Inventions
-NOAH WEBSTER
Universalizing Religion
Religions that attempts to to appeal to all people not just certain ethnic groups
Example of Universalizing Religions
Buddism. Christianity, Islam, Sikhism
Religions branch
Large main division of a religion
Is Christianity a branch denomination or sect?
Branch
Religion Denomination
Unites local congregations into single, legal and administrative bodies
Is Methodist a branch, denomination, or sect?
Denomination
Religious Sects
small groups broken off from a denomination
Is BUMC an example of a branch, denomination, or sect?
Sect
What are the two main branches of Islam
Sunni & Shiite
What is the largest branch of Islam
Sunni
Which branch of Islam dominates Iran
Shiite
Is Buddhism a Universalizing religion or an ethnic religion
universalizing
What is the reason for France’s growing Islamic Population
former french colonies were dominantly Islamic
What is the ethnic religion with the most adherents
Hinduism
How many Gods would you believe in if you practiced a polytheistic religion?
multiple
How many Gods would you worship if you practiced a monotheistic religion
ONE
What is a syncretic religion
the combining of several religious traditions
What is a Hajj
A pilgrimidge to Meccah
Who takes a Hajj
Muslims
Name the 3 holy places of Islam
Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem
What are the ways that Christianity has diffused or is diffusing?
Relocation-Missionaries
Expansion-Romans
Which religion is still dominant in the homeland of its founder
Islam
Why arew there so many Catholics in the American SouthWest
It is very close to Mexico
What are some of the characteristics of Hierarchial Religions
Religion in which a central authority excersizes a high degree of control
Give an example of a Hierarchial Religion
Catholic
What is an autonomous religion
a religion that doesn’t share a central authority, buy shares ideas and cooperates
What is cosmogony
set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
What religions view Jerusalem as a Holy Place
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism
What do religious burial practices deal with?
Beliefs, environment, and topography
What is race
physical trait
What is ethnicity
Cultural Trait
What is nationality
legal trait (citizen vs noncitizen)
The two largest Hispanic groups in the Us trace their ancestry to what two places?
Puerto Rico and MExico
Is Hispanic a race?
No its an ethnicity
Compare African slave migration to Hispanic/Asian migration
African slaves were forced while Hispanic/Asian American were voluntary
White Flight
Emigration of white Americans to an area anticipating blacks to immigrate to
Blockbusting
when real estate agents convinced white families living near black areas to sell there houses at a low $
What did the Plessy VS Ferguson do
Created the “Seperate but Equal” Clause
What did the Brown vs Board of Education do
Repealed the “Seperate but Equal” Clause
Apartheid
Legal seperation of races into different geographic areas in South Africa
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that encouraged segregation
Who were the Kurds
An ethnic group that felt that the a had self determination (the right to govern themselves)
Nationalism
Loyalty/devotion to a certain nationality
Nation State
State that only has one religious or ethnic group
What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~CBR drops drastically
~ CDR continues to fall
~Moderate NIR
Stage 3
What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~Still a very high CBR with lowered CDR
~High NIR
Stage 2
What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~CDR is higher than CBR and the population begins to decline
Stage 5
What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~High CBR and CDR
~NIR of 0
Stage 1
What stage of the DTM do the following describe?
~CBR declines to where its back equal to CDR
~Zero Population
Stage 4
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)
YES
