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AP Human Geography Chapter three Culture,language, religion,ethnicity,gender

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show The adoptin by an ethnic group of enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially.  
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Assimilation   show
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show when a new group adapts to their surroundings  
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show The core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties  
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show the study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments they occupy.  
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Cultural identity   show
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Cultural landscape   show
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Culture realm   show
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Culture   show
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Cultural region   show
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Expansion Diffusion   show
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show Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones. The most common form of relocation diffusion involves spreading of innovations by immigrants.  
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Innovation adoption   show
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Maladaptive diffusion   show
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show Refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey  
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Adaptive strategies   show
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Architectural form   show
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show That part of the physical landscape that represents materrial culture; the buildings, roads, bridges, and similar structures large and small of the cultural landscape.  
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show The body of institutions, customs, dress, arifacts, collective wisdoms, and traditions of a homogeneous, isolated, largely self-sufficient and relatively static social group.  
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Folklore   show
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show The tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles and technologies.  
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show The oral traditions, songs and stories of a culture group aloong with its beliefs and customary behaviors.  
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popular culture   show
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survey systems   show
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show to indicate originality within a culture or long-term part of an indigenous society. It is the opposite of modernized, superimposed, or changed; it denotes continuity and historic association.  
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Creole   show
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show a distinctive local or regional variant of a language that remains mutually intelligible to speakers of other dialects of that language, a subtype of a language.  
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show The border of usage of an individual word or pronunciation.  
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Language   show
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Language family   show
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show a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary  
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Lingua franca   show
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show is simply one which is in wide use as a primary form of communication by a specific group of living people. 5,000 - 10,000 different types  
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show A society's or country's use of only one language of communication for all purposes.  
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multilingual   show
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Official language   show
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show An auxillary language derived, with reduced vocabulary and simplified structure, from other languages. Not a native tongue, used for limited communication among people with different languages.  
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Toponymy   show
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show A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade  
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show A belief that natural objects may be the abode of dead people, spirits, or gods who occasionally give the objects the appearance of life.  
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Buddhism   show
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Cargo cult pilgrimage   show
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Christianity   show
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Confucianism   show
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show A religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exclusive to it. Such a religion does not seek converts.  
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show A portion of a state that is separated from the main territory and surrounded by another country.  
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Enclave   show
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fundamentalism   show
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Geomancy   show
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show The muslim pilgrimige to Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad.  
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show One of the oldest religions in the modern world, dating back over 4,000 years and originating in the Indus Valley  
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show Boundaries within a single major faith.  
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Islam   show
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Jainism   show
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show a monotheistic, ethnic religion first developed among the Hebrew people of the ancient Near East; its determining conditions include descent from Isreal, the Torah and tradition.  
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show visible regional variables, for different religions and cultures dispose of their dead in different manners  
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show belieg in one god/ believe in many gods  
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show a term used to describe religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is important because a lot of people around the world practice Mormonism  
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muslim pilgrimage   show
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proselytic religion   show
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show after this life you will come back in another life either as a plant, animal, or a human life. So basically what you do in this life will affect what your next life is like.  
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Religion   show
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show These are the styles of architecture created by the religions. For example, Christians have always made temples, and Buddhists have always made a lot of religious statues.  
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Religious culture hearth   show
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show this is the conflicts between religions. One of these is Israel-Palestine. This consists of Roman Takeovers, Muslim conquests, and the crusades. This affects HG because there has been a lot of bloodshed over Religious Conflict  
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Religious toponym   show
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show Place or space that people infuse with religious meaning.  
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Secularism   show
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show Community faith in traditional societies in which people follow their shaman-a religious leader, teacher, healer and visionary. At times an especially strong shaman might attract a regional following. However, most shamans remain local figures.  
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show The system of Islamic law, sometimes called Qu'ranic Law. Unlike most Western systems of law that are based on legal precedence, Sharia is based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Qu'ran.  
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show Located in Japan and related to Buddhism Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship.  
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Sikhism   show
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Sunni   show
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Shiites   show
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Taoism   show
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show A stat whose government is under the control of a ruler who is deemed to be divinely guided, or of a group of religious leaders as in post-Khomeini Iran.  
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Universalizing   show
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show The religion states that active participation in life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. This active participation is a central element in Zoroaster's concept of free will  
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show In the context of arranged marriages, disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom(the dowry)have, some extreme cases, led to the death of the bride.  
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show the franchise is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right  
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show unbalanced sex ratio or economic gap between the sexes  
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show is the practice of intentionally killing an infant  
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show is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy "  
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Maternal mortality rate   show
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barrio   show
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show the tendency of people to migrate along channels, over a period of time, from specific source areas to specific destinations.  
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cultural adaptation   show
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show a politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict.  
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show A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.  
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show a conflict between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism.  
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ethnic enclave   show
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show a group of people who share a common ancestry and cultural tradition, often living as a minority group in a larger society.  
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show a sizable area inhabited by an ethnic minority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region and often excercises some measure of political and social control over it  
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Ethnic landscape   show
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show a voluntary community where people of like origin reside by choice  
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show affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture  
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ethnocentrism   show
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show a forced or voluntarily segregated residential area housing a racial ethnic or religious minority.  
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show a society combining ethnic contrasts: the economic interdependence of those groups  
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race   show
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segregation   show
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show a measure of the perceived degree of social separation between individuals, ethnic groups, neighborhoods or other groupings; the voluntary or enforced segregation of two or more distinct social groups for most activities.  
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