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Human Geography
European Themes of Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud |
| Christianity | A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament |
| Islam | A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims. |
| Cyrillic Alphabet | An alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages |
| Germanic Language Family | subgroup of Indo-European language family. German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, English. |
| Romance Languages | Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian. |
| Slavic Languages | Languages that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago. |
| Roman Alphabet | writing system developed by the Romans and commonly used by many Romance and Germanic languages today (e.g., A B C D E F G) |
| arable | suitable for growing crops |
| urban | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town. |
| permafrost | permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground |