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geography final 3

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three main clusters are home to about 60% of the world's people. Where are they?   Europe. Indian Subcontinent. East Asia.  
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What is the RNI of the world? What if the RNI were negative?   1.2%, population would be decreasing  
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Tonybee's theory   challenge and response; environmental determinist  
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Kenyan's theory   Propinquity theory; proximity/nearness, time of dryness forced people to live in close proximity to each other near oasis's; environmental awareness  
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Braidwood's theory   Cultural culmination theory; mutation, 2 types of wheat: moral- stood straight, held seed tightly immoral- loose and not held tightly; harvested moral wheat b/c most efficient; stumbled upon agriculture accidently  
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Carl Sauer   1) agriculture was independently invented by different people in different places; 2) women discovered agriculture; 3) people with leisure time developed agriculture 4) necessity not mother of invention  
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other theories   1) food shortage theory- shortage of food so people grew it 2) margin theory - agriculture developed where hard to obtain food 3) climate change- after ice age, agriculture began  
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landscapes of popular culture   consumption - malls; leisure/amenity- perks; Elitist - high end golf courses; immorality - las vegas, adult stores, highly debatable  
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problems with diffusion of popular culture   1) will folk culture survive? - they are adapting too, people are always changing 2) dominance of western perspectives 3) less responsive to environmental diversity  
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basic beliefs of anabaptists/plain people   1) adult baptism 2) shunning (varies) 3)social separation from world 4) reject violence and weapons 5) refusal to swear oaths 6) submission (humility and simplicity)  
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inherent value hypothesis   We do not follow-some languages are inherently more attractive than others; certain ways of being "nicely spoken" are biologically wired into us.  
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social connotations hypothesis   follow. favor a view proposing that the pleasantness or unpleasantness of a language variety is a time honored social convention; pleasantness of a language variety are contingent on the social attributes of the speakers of it;  
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