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AP HUG VOCAB 6
Vocabulary for AP Human Geography Ch 6
Question | Answer |
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Animism | belief that objects, such as plant and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life |
Ethnic Religion | A religion with relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principals are likely based on physical characteristics of a particular location in which its adherents are concentrated |
Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes |
Autonomous Religion | A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally |
Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principals of a religion (or religious branch, denomination, or sect) |
Polytheism | belief in or worship of more than one god |
Branch | a large and fundamental division within a religion |
Ghetto | During the middle ages, a neighborhood set up by law to be inhabited only by Jew, now used to denote a section of a city in which members of a minority live because of social, legal, or economic pressure |
Sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination |
Caste | the class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to law |
Solstice | time when the sun is farthest from the equator |
Hierarchal Religion | A religion in which a central authority exercises a degree of control |
Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe |
Missionary | an individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion |
Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body |
Universalizing religion | a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location |
Diocese | the basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church |
Pagan | a follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times |
Monotheism | the doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god |