5031849870 | culture | group of beliefs that certain people in a group will follow | 0 | |
5031849871 | folk culture | incorporates a homogeneous population (culture) and follows after that culture's traits | 1 | |
5031849872 | popular culture | includes a large heterogeneous population and experiences rapidly changing traits | 2 | |
5031849873 | local culture | group of people who see themselves as a community with collective traits | 3 | |
5031849874 | material culture | a group that is known for what they have created | 4 | |
5031849875 | non-material culture | a group that is known for the beliefs and ideas that they have created | 5 | |
5031849876 | independent innovation | when the same invention is created in 2 separate places that did not communicate | 6 | |
5031849877 | culture systems | When 2 or more culture complexes are united by something, such as a trait or custom | 7 | |
5031849878 | culture realm | set of culture showing unrelated culture complexes/landscape | 8 | |
5031849879 | assimilation | adapting to a culture of a group or nation | 9 | |
5031849880 | custom | universal practice that a group follows | 10 | |
5031849881 | cultural appropriation | other cultures utilize one culture's trait(s) for their benefits | 11 | |
5031849882 | neolocalism | regional culture that is reinvigorated in response to uncertainty of the modern world | 12 | |
5031849883 | ethnic neighborhoods | neighborhoods that are located in a major city buy live apart from the rest of the population to practice their customs | 13 | |
5031849884 | commodification | some aspect of a culture that wasn't an object now is being bought/sold/traded on world market as an object | 14 | |
5031849885 | authenticity | having an origin supported by evidence | 15 | |
5031849886 | time-space compression | explains how something will diffuse based on the connectivity of 2 places | 16 | |
5031849887 | reterritorialization | pop culture will take on new forms when it encounters a new locality | 17 | |
5031849888 | cultural landscape | visible imprint of human activity on a landscape | 18 | |
5031849889 | placelessness | loss of uniqueness of place in a cultural landscape | 19 | |
5031849890 | global-local continuum | cultural borrowing and mixing around the world | 20 | |
5031849891 | glocalization | the process by which people in a local place alter regional, national, and global processes | 21 | |
5031849892 | folk-housing regions | house types that simultaneously appear in a region | 22 | |
5031849893 | diffusion routes | route that shows where ideas spread | 23 | |
5031849894 | saltbox | housing type that is mainly found in New England has a slanted roof to knock snow off | 24 | |
5031849895 | ranch | housing type that only has 1 level; typically very long | 25 | |
5031849896 | acculturation | modification of a culture through the adoption of new cultural traits from a society with different traditions | 26 | |
5031849897 | artifacts | material evidence of human substinence | 27 | |
5031849898 | mentifacts | the world views, values, and beliefs such as those expressed in religion and art | 28 | |
5031849899 | sociofacts | institutions that bind a society together | 29 | |
5031849900 | identity | how we make sense of ourselves | 30 | |
5031849901 | Gillian Rose | defined identity and sense of place | 31 | |
5031849902 | identifying against | when one person is defined as being in one group, but identifies in another group | 32 | |
5031849903 | race | constructed identity based on biological traits | 33 | |
5031849904 | racism | discrimination based on race | 34 | |
5031849905 | residential segregation | when 2 or more groups live in separate neighborhoods/cities from each other | 35 | |
5031849906 | invasion and succession | new immigrants occupy older immigrant's areas | 36 | |
5031849907 | ethnicity | people that are closely bounded in a certain place over time | 37 | |
5031849908 | queer theory | theory that queers are discriminated against | 38 | |
5031849909 | power relationships | one person in a relationship takes more control | 39 | |
5031849910 | dowry deaths | problem in India where a bride may be killed by her husband if she does not fulfill his wants/needs | 40 | |
5031849911 | language | a set of sounds and symbols used for communication | 41 | |
5031849912 | standard language | language in a country that is widely used, published and taught | 42 | |
5031849913 | dialects | variants of a standard language within a region, culture, or ethnic group | 43 | |
5031849914 | isogloss | geographic boundary where a dialect or language is found | 44 | |
5031849915 | mutual intelligibility | 2 people can understand each other when speaking | 45 | |
5031849916 | dialect chains | the idea that dialects closest to each other will be the most similar | 46 | |
5031849917 | language families | languages that have a similar origin | 47 | |
5031849918 | subfamilies | stems off of language families where the commonalities are more definite | 48 | |
5031849919 | sound shift | slight change in words among similar languages | 49 | |
5031849920 | Proto-Indo-European | ancestral Indo-European language | 50 | |
5031849921 | backward reconstruction | tracking sound shifts to the hardening of consonants to find a language origin | 51 | |
5031849922 | extinct language | language that has no native speakers | 52 | |
5031849923 | deep reconstruction | recreating languages that preceded it through the hardening of consonants | 53 | |
5031849924 | Nostratic | Original Proto-Indo-European language | 54 | |
5031849925 | language divergence | when a language breaks into a dialect | 55 | |
5031849926 | language convergence | when 2 dialects collapse into one | 56 | |
5031849927 | Renfrew hypothesis | hypothesis the first language hearth was agricultural and it diffused around from there | 57 | |
5031849928 | conquest theory | theory that early speakers traveled on horseback west of the hearth | 58 | |
5031849929 | dispersal hypothesis | hypothesis that language carried eastward into Southwest Asia | 59 | |
5031849930 | Romance languages | language family where all of the areas were once controlled by the Roman empire | 60 | |
5031849931 | Germanic languages | language family that reflects the expansion of Northern Europe to the west and the south | 61 | |
5031849932 | Slavic languages | language family that was formed from the Slavic people migrating from a base into present day Ukraine | 62 | |
5031849933 | lingua franca | language used among different language speakers for trade | 63 | |
5031849934 | pidgin language | combination of 2 languages | 64 | |
5031849935 | Creole language | when a pidgin language becomes someone's native tongue | 65 | |
5031849936 | monolingual states | countries with one language spoken | 66 | |
5031849937 | multilingual states | countries with multiple languages spoken | 67 | |
5031849938 | official language | language that is adopted by a country to tie people together | 68 | |
5031849939 | global language | a language that is the most commonly used in trade and commerce | 69 | |
5031849940 | toponym | the name of a place | 70 | |
5031849941 | religion | system of beliefs and practices that attempts to put someone's life in order by their culture's priorities | 71 | |
5031849942 | secularism | religion is not significant to some people | 72 | |
5031849943 | monotheistic | belief of one god | 73 | |
5031849944 | polytheistic | belief of two or more gods | 74 | |
5031849945 | animistic | worshiping of inanimate objects | 75 | |
5031849946 | universal religion | religion that is very common because many people are converted to it | 76 | |
5031849947 | ethnic religion | religion practiced by one culture or ethnic group | 77 | |
5031849948 | Hinduism | 3rd most popular religion worldwide that believes in Vedas, karma, and reincarnation | 78 | |
5031849949 | caste system | social class system | 79 | |
5031849950 | Buddhism | religion created from those who questioned Hinduism created by Siddhartha | 80 | |
5031849951 | Shintoism | Japanese religion that is related to Buddhism | 81 | |
5031849952 | Taoism | Chinese philosophy created by Lao-Tsu | 82 | |
5031849953 | Feng Shui | art and science of organizing living spaces to channel natural life forces | 83 | |
5031849954 | Confucianism | philosophy of life | 84 | |
5031849955 | Judaism | belief system of the Jews | 85 | |
5031849956 | diaspora | spatial dispersion of an ethnic group | 86 | |
5031849957 | Zionism | belief that Jews shouldn't absorb into other societies | 87 | |
5031849958 | Christianity | most popular religion worldwide that is stemmed off of Jesus in the Mediterranean | 88 | |
5031849959 | Eastern Orthodox | Stem of Christianity created when the Ottoman Turks defeated the Serbs | 89 | |
5031849960 | Roman Catholic | stem of Christianity that is the most dominant which was caused by the division in Western and Eastern Roman empire | 90 | |
5031849961 | Islam | 2nd most popular religion worldwide that is followed by Muslims who believe in Allah. This religion was created by Muhammad | 91 | |
5031849962 | Sunni | greater majority of Muslims | 92 | |
5031849963 | Shi'ite (pronounced "Shia") | Muslims concentrated in Iran | 93 | |
5031849964 | Shamanism | African religion that follows Shaman | 94 | |
5031849965 | pilgrimage | travelling to a religious site to pay respect | 95 | |
5031849966 | sacred sites | places that are infused with religious meaning | 96 | |
5031849967 | minaret | tower where prayers are made for Muslims | 97 | |
5031849968 | hajj | Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca | 98 | |
5031849969 | interfaith boundaries | boundaries between the world's major faiths | 99 | |
5031849970 | intrafaith boundaries | boundaries within a major faith | 100 | |
5031849971 | genocide | attempts to destroy an ethnic group | 101 | |
5031849972 | ethnic cleansing | to cleanse a territory of an ethnic group | 102 | |
5031849973 | religious fundamentalism | wanting to return to the basics of their faith | 103 | |
5031849974 | religious extremism | violent religious fundamentalism | 104 | |
5031849975 | Vedas | sacred text of Hinduism is _____ | 105 | |
5031849976 | Ganges River | sacred site of Hinduism is ______ | 106 | |
5031849977 | Cambodia | Hindu temple location | 107 | |
5031849978 | stupas | sacred sites of Buddhism | 108 | |
5031849979 | Torah | sacred text of Judaism | 109 | |
5031849980 | Abraham | founder of Judaism | 110 | |
5031849981 | Jerusalem | sacred site of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism | 111 | |
5031849982 | bible | sacred text of Christianity | 112 | |
5031849983 | Bethlehem | other sacred site of Christianity besides Jerusalem | 113 | |
5031849984 | Protestant | 3rd split of Christianity in the 1400's | 114 | |
5031849985 | Qu'ran | sacred text of Islam | 115 | |
5031849986 | Muhammad | founder of Islam | 116 | |
5031849987 | Mecca and Medina | sacred sites of Islam | 117 | |
5031849988 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 118 |
AP Human Geography: Culture, Identity, Language and Religion Flashcards
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