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show shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society  
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culture trait   show
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show the art or science of building  
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show practice of assessing a culture by it's own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one's own culture .  
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show evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares to one's own cultural norms  
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cultural landscape   show
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Linguistic   show
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show notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape  
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show traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places.  
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postmodern architecture   show
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show identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.  
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gender   show
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ethnic neighborhood   show
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indigenous community   show
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show state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.  
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show a collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value  
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centripetal force   show
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show forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state.  
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show spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another.  
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show when innovations spread to new places while staying strong in their original locations  
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show Occurs when numerous places or people near the point of origin become adopters  
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show Occurs when the diffusion innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power or high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern.  
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show Occurs when the innovative idea diffuses from its hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters.  
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show The process in which two or more languages converge and form a new language  
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Lingua Franca   show
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show when a more powerful country attempts to assert its power and influence over a weaker country.  
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imperialism   show
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trade   show
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show A relatively small ratio between map units and ground units.  
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show usually have higher resolution and cover much smaller regions than small-scale maps.  
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Urbanization   show
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show The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact.  
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show the idea that distance between places is, in effect, shrinking due to certain transportation and communities technologies  
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cultural convergence   show
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cultural divergence   show
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language family   show
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language dialect   show
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cultural hearth   show
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Indo-European language family   show
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toponym   show
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show A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.  
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Christianity   show
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islam   show
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show teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases  
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show the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam.  
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show A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location  
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hinduism   show
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judaism   show
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show the term used to describe the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society. It usually occurs when one society is controlled, either politically, economically, socially, or all of these, by another society.  
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assimilation   show
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syncretism   show
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show Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.  
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