AP HuG vocab

226011254	culture	the specialized behavioral patterns, understandings, adaptations, and social systems that summarize a group of people's learned way of life.
226011255	artifact	the objects, tools, or instruments that enable us to feed, clothe, house, defend, transport, and amuse ourselves.
226011256	carrying capacity	the number of persons supportable within a given area by the technologies at their disposal
226011257	cultural convergence	the sharing of technologies, organizational structures, and even cultural traits and artifacts that is so evident among widely separated societies in a modern world
226011258	cultural divergence	the likelihood or tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar with the passage of time
226011259	cultural ecology	the study of the relationship between a culture group and the natural environment it occupies
226011260	cultural landscape	the earth' surface as modifies by human action as the tangible physical record of a given culture
226011261	cultural integration	the interlocking nature of all aspects of a culture
226011262	cultural system	broader generalization than a cultural complex and refers to the collection of interacting cultural traits and cultural complexes that are shared by a group within a particular territory
226011263	culture complex	individual culture traits that are functionally interrelated
226011264	culture hearth	used to describe such centers of innovation and invention from which key culture traits and elements moved to exert an influence on the surrounding regions
226011265	culture realm	a set of culture regions showing related culture complexes and landscapes that are grouped
226011266	culture region	a portion of the earth's surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics
226011267	culture trait	a unit of learned behavior ranging from the language spoken to the tools used or games played
226011268	diffusion	the process by which an idea or innovation is transmitted from one individual or group to another across space
226011269	diffusion barrier	any conditions that hinder either the flow of information or the movement of people and thus retard or prevent the acceptance of the innovation
226011270	environmental determinism	the belief that the physical environment exclusively shapes humans, their actions, and thoughts
226011271	expansion diffusion	the spread of an item or idea from one place to others
226011272	hunter-gatherer	preagricultural people dependent on the year-round availability of plant and animal foodstuffs they could secure with the rudimentary stone tools and weapons at their disposal
226011273	ideological subsystem	consists of ideas, beliefs, and knowledge of a culture and the ways these things are expressed in speech or other forms of communication.
226011274	independent invention	innovations developed in two or more unconnected locations by individuals or groups acting independently
226011275	innovation	changes to a culture that result from ideas created within the social group itself and adopted by the culture
226011276	mentifact	abstract belief systems that tell us what we ought to believe, value, and how to act
226011277	multilinear evolution	concept proposed by Julian Steward to explain the common characteristics of widely separated cultures developed under similar ecological circumstances
226011278	sociofact	economic, political, military, religious, kinship, and other associations that define the social organization of a culture
226011279	sociological subsystem	the sum of those expected and accepted patterns of interpersonal relations that find their outlet in economic, political, military, religious, kinship, and other associations
226011280	syncretism	the process of the fusion of the old and new
226011281	technological subsystem	composed of material objects, together with the techniques of their use, by which people are able to live
226011282	relocation diffusion	the innovation or idea being physically carried to new areas by migrating individuals or populations that posses it