This includes the Language and Religion vocabulary, plus the Geographers to Know.
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| 5850694899 | Creole | A pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language of a group of a people | 0 | |
| 5850694900 | Dialect | Variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines | 1 | |
| 5850694901 | Dispersal | Movement of individuals away from centers of high population density or from their area of origin | 2 | |
| 5850694902 | Agricultural theory | A theory that proposes that Proto-Indo-European diffused westward through Europe with the diffusion of agriculture | 3 | |
| 5850694903 | Conquest theory | Theory that proposes that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues | 4 | |
| 5850694904 | Renfrew theory | A theory that claims that from Anatolia (present-day Turkey) diffused Europe's Indo-European languages | 5 | |
| 5850694906 | Extinct language | A language that was once used by people on a daily basis but now is not used at all | 6 | |
| 5850694907 | Global language | A common language used for trade and commerce around the world | 7 | |
| 5850694908 | Indo-European languages | Languages that stem from the 4 indo-European branches ex. Spanish, French, Russian, Hindi, English | 8 | |
| 5850694909 | Illiteracy | The inability to read or write | 9 | |
| 5850694910 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs | 10 | |
| 5850694911 | Language | A set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication | 11 | |
| 5850694912 | Language convergence | When two people's languages have consistent spatial interaction and they collapse into one language | 12 | |
| 5850694913 | Language divergence | When the language breaks into dialects due to the lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language, continued isolation creates discrete new languages | 13 | |
| 5850694914 | Language family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 14 | |
| 5850694915 | Language group | A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary | 15 | |
| 5850694916 | Lingua franca | A language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce | 16 | |
| 5850694917 | Linguistic diversity | The assortment of languages in a particular area | 17 | |
| 5850694918 | Literacy | The ability to read and write | 18 | |
| 5850694919 | Monolingual | Countries in which only one language is spoken | 19 | |
| 5850694920 | Multilingual | Countries in which more than one language is spoken | 20 | |
| 5850694922 | Official language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents; also used in countries with linguistic fragmentation to tie the people together | 21 | |
| 5850694923 | Pidgin | When people speaking two or more languages are in contact with each other and they combine parts of their languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary | 22 | |
| 5850694924 | Sound shift | A slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily or through a language family from the present backward toward its origin | 23 | |
| 5850694925 | Standard language | A language that is published, widely distributed, and purposefully taught | 24 | |
| 5850694926 | Toponymy | The study of the origins and meaning of place-names | 25 | |
| 5850694927 | Trade language | A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other | 26 | |
| 5850694928 | Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, such as thunderstorms and earthquakes, have discrete spirit and concious life | 27 | |
| 5850694929 | Atheism | Belief that there is no deity or god | 28 | |
| 5850694930 | Diaspora | The spatial dispersion of members of any ethnic group | 29 | |
| 5850694931 | Evangelical | Concerning religious belief, commonly Protestant, that emphasizes personal salvation, individual and voluntary religious commitment, and the authority of scripture | 30 | |
| 5850694934 | Extremism | A person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, one who resorts to or advocates extreme action, sometimes violence | 31 | |
| 5850694935 | Feng Shui | Chinese art and science of placement and orientation of tombs, dwellings, buildings, and cities. Structures and objects are positioned in an effort to channel flows of sheng-chi in favorable ways | 32 | |
| 5850694936 | Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect) | 33 | |
| 5850694937 | Genocide | Deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder | 34 | |
| 5850694938 | Hajj | A pilgrimage to Mecca, made as an objective of the religious life of a Muslim | 35 | |
| 5850694939 | Interfaith boundaries | Boundaries between the world's major faiths | 36 | |
| 5850694940 | Intrafaith boundaries | Boundaries within a single major faith | 37 | |
| 5850694941 | Jihad | A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | 38 | |
| 5850694942 | Mormonism | Founded by Joseph Smith, who claimed he was visited by God, and in 1830 he published a document called The Book of Mormon. He said it was a translation of a set of gold tablets he had found in the hills of New York, revealed to him by an angel of God | 39 | |
| 5850694943 | Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes | 40 | |
| 5850694945 | Reincarnation | Belief in the rebirth of souls | 41 | |
| 5850694946 | Religion | A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities | 42 | |
| 5850694947 | Ethnic religion | A religion where adherents are born into the faith and converts are not actively sought | 43 | |
| 5850694948 | Universalizing religion | A religion that actively seeks converts because they view themselves as offering belief systems of universal appropriateness and appeal | 44 | |
| 5850694949 | Religious conflict | Conflict based on religious differences | 45 | |
| 5850694950 | Religious culture hearth | The site or region where a religion originated | 46 | |
| 5850694951 | Religious landscape | The landscape effected by a religion; places of worship, arrangements for the dead, etc. | 47 | |
| 5850694952 | Religious toponym | This refers to the origin and meaning of the names of religions | 48 | |
| 5850694953 | Sacred space | An area that has special religious significance or meaning that makes it worthy of reverence or devotion | 49 | |
| 5850694954 | Secularism | An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civic affairs and public education | 50 | |
| 5850694955 | Shamanism | An animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | 51 | |
| 5850694956 | Shari'a law | The system of Islamic law, sometimes called Qu'ranic law. Unlike most western systems of law that are based on legal precedence, shari'a is based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Quran | 52 | |
| 5850694957 | Theism | Belief in a deity or deities | 53 | |
| 5850694958 | Monotheism | Belief in one god | 54 | |
| 5850694959 | Polytheism | Belief in more than one god | 55 | |
| 5850694960 | Zionism | A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine | 56 | |
| 5850694963 | George Renfrew | Composed the theory that claims that from Anatolia (present-day Turkey) diffused Europe's Indo-European languages | 57 |
