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Cultural Geography

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acculturation   show
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animism   show
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show any item that represents a material aspect of culture  
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Buddhism   show
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show system in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the caste system in their next life through their actions, or karma.  
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Christianity   show
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show a pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it  
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cultural complex   show
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show obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of the three  
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show the subfield of human geography that looks at how culture spreads over time  
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show locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose  
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cultural trait   show
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culture   show
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show a particular religious group, usually associated with differing Protestant belief systems  
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dialect   show
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diaspora   show
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ecumene   show
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environmental determinism   show
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ethnic cleansing   show
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show an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background  
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ethnic religion   show
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ethnicity   show
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show religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system  
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show refers to a constellation of cultural practices that form sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional societies in which they developed  
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fundamentalism   show
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genocide   show
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show a segregated ethnic area within a city  
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show religion in which members are numerous and widespread and their doctrines might appeal to different people from any region of the globe  
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hinduism   show
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show language family including he Germanic and Romance languages that is spoken by about 50% if the world's population  
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show a monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one God, Allah, and the Muhammad was Allah's prophet. Islam is based in the ancient city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad  
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Judaism   show
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show this occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since languages first developed, but the process of language extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years  
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show a collection of may languages, all which came from the same origin tongue long ago, that have since evolved different characteristics  
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language group   show
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lingua franca   show
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literacy   show
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local religion   show
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show a racial or ethnic group smaller than and differing from the majority race or ethnicity in a particular area or region  
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show a person of a particular faith that travels in order to recruit new members into the faith represented  
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monotheism   show
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multicultural   show
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show language in which all government business occurs in a country  
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pidgin   show
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pilgrimage   show
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show the worship of more than one god  
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show dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties  
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race   show
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show any languages derived from latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian  
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shaman   show
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show language area that spreads through most of Southeast Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Korean  
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show traditions that are borrow from both the past and present  
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show place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams  
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tradition   show
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universalizing religion   show
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