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

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Acculturation   show
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show The complete blending of an ethnic group into the host society resulting in the loss of all distinctive ethnic traits.  
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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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show is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture  
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Cultural landscape   show
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show A collective of culture regions sharing related culture systems: a majorworld area having sufficient distinctiveness to be perceived as set apart from other realms in terms of cultural characteristics and complexes.  
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show A society's collective beliefs, symbols, values, forms of behavior and social organizations, together with its tools, structures and artifacts created according to the group's condition of life.  
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show formal, functional, vernacular (perceptual)-a formal or functional region within which common cultural characteristics prevail.  
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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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show Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another  
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Sequent Occupance   show
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Adaptive strategies   show
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show is both the process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social and aesthetic considerations  
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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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show Oral traditions of a folk culture, including tales, fables, legends, customary observations and moral teachings.  
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Material culture   show
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Nonmaterial culture   show
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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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show A Language derived from a pidgin language that has acquired a fuller vocabulary and become the native laguage of its speakers.  
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Dialect   show
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show The border of usage of an individual word or pronunciation.  
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show A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication that has a spoken and usually a written expression.  
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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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Linguistic diversity   show
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monolingual   show
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show The common use of two or more languages in a society or country.  
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Official language   show
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Pidgin   show
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show The place names of a region or, especially, the study of place names.  
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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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Animism   show
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show A universalizing religion, primarily of eastern and central asia, based on teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha that suffering is inherent in all life but can be relieved by mental and moral self-purification.  
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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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Exclave   show
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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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Hinduism   show
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Interfaith boundaries   show
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Islam   show
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Jainism   show
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Judaism   show
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Landscapes of the Dead   show
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Monotheism/polytheism   show
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Mormonism   show
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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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Religious architectural styles   show
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show This is where most religions are born. Most major religions have come from the Middle East near Israel, but a few have come from India too. This is important to HG because where religions are created, civilizations are too.  
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Religious conflict   show
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show This refers to the origin and meaning of the names of religions. This is important to HG because many names mean significant things including beliefs of cultures  
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show Place or space that people infuse with religious meaning.  
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Secularism   show
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Shamanism   show
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Sharia Law   show
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Shintoism   show
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show a sect of Hinduism  
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show Adherents to the largest branch of Islam, called the orthodox or traditionalis. believfe in the effectivemess of family and community in the solution of life's problems and differ from the Shiites.  
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Shiites   show
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show believed to have been founded by Lao-Tsu and based upon his book entitled "Tao-te-ching" focused on the proper form of political rule and on the oneness of humanity and nature.  
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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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show A belief system that espouses the idea that there is one true religion that is universal in scope. Adherents of universalizing religious systems often believe that their religion represents universal truths.  
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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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Enfranchisement   show
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Gender gap   show
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infanticide   show
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Longevity gap   show
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Maternal mortality rate   show
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show a ward, quarter, or district of a city or town in a Spanish-speaking country  
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Chain migration   show
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show is the evolutionary process by which an individual modifies his personal habits and customs to fit in to a particular culture  
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Cultural shatterbelt   show
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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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show a small area occupied by a destinctive minority culture  
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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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show the spatial distribuions and interactions of ethnic groups and of the cultural characteristics on which they are based.  
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Ethnic neighborhood   show
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show affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture  
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show conviction of the evident superiority of one's own ethnic group.  
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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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show a measure of degree to which members of a minority group are not uniformly distributed among the total population.  
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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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