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APHG Vocab 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pandemic | When a disease is prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area. |
| Place | Where something is and what it means. |
| Hearth | where and idea originates |
| Sequent Occupance | How people migrate after each other |
| Cartography | Map making |
| Formal Region | Areas in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area |
| Perceptual region | Area defined by people’s feelings and attitudes |
| Culture | the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group |
| Stimulus diffusion | when an idea is integrated or transmitted from one culture to another |
| Contagious diffusion | a cultural trait spreading across a population like a disease |
| Hierarchacal diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
| Culture trait | any trait of human activity acquired in social life and transmitted by communication. |
| Culture complex | a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait |
| Cultural barrier | barriers brought about by cultural differences |