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secularism   religion is less-significant to communities  
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animism   all objects are animate and have souls/feelings/are alive  
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universalizing religions   believed to appeal to universal populus (everyone) due to offering a belief system that benefits all (ex: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism)  
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ethnic religions   you must be born into faith; no converts (ex. Hinduism)  
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top 5 religions in the world   1) Christianity, 2)Islam, 3) Hinduism, 4) Buddhism, 5) Sikhism  
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origin/diffusion of Islam   diffused fromm Christianity; kings used armies to spread religion along Arabian Penninsula; 1.3 billion followers  
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Hinduism   conglomeration of beliefs characterized by great diversity of gods and goddesses, karma, reincarnation, and a caste system  
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Judaism   monotheistic religion; Zionism; about 5 million Jews in Europe & 5 million in Asia  
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diaspora   the diffusion of Judaism  
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fastest growing religion in the world   Islam  
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caste system   system of layers based on categorizing people by their class  
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lingua franca   a common language adopted between speakers whose native languages are different; used commercially  
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dialect   variants of a standard language based on regional/ethnic lines  
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mutual intelligibility   two people can understand each other when speaking  
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1993 Top 5 Languages of the World   1) Mandarin, 2) English, 3) Spanish, 4) Hindi, 5) Russian  
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2004 Top 5 Languages of the World   1) Mandarin, 2) English, 3) Hindi, 4) Spanish, 5) Arabic  
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2011 Top 5 Languages of the World   1) Mandarin, 2) Spanish & English, 3) Arabic, 4) Hindi, 5) Portugese & Bengali  
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backward reconstruction   traces migration back to "home" to discover the original source of the spoken language  
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deep reconstruction   completely recontructs a former language after backwards reconstruction  
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Nostratic language   the ancient ancestor of Proto-Indo-European language, as well as the Kartvelian languages, Uralic-Altaic landuages, the Dravidian languages of India, and the Afro-Asiatic lanuages of Arabia  
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language divergence/convergence   how languages are created  
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pidgin language   two languages combine structures into a simplified vocabulary  
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descriptive toponyms   Rocky Mountains, Chicago (Stinking Onions)  
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Associative toponyms   Mill River (a mill was on the river), Springfield (a spring was in the field)  
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Incident Names   Battle Creek, Bloody Ridge, Cut and Shoot  
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Possessive Names   Castro Valley, Pittsburg  
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Commemorative (commemorating someone well-known or in honor of a famous person)   St. Louis, San Jacinto, Houston, Seattle (named after Chief Seattle), Austin, Pennsylvania (Penn's woods), Illinois (after the Illini Indians)  
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Commendatory (praising)   Pleasant Valley, Greenland  
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Manufactured (made up names)   Tesnus ('Sunset' spelled backwards), Reklaw ('Walker' spelled backwards), Iraan (Ira and Ann named the town after each other), Truth or Consequences  
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Mistaken (historic errors in identification or translation)   West Indies (not west of the Indies and not Indies)  
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Shift Names (relocated name or names from settler's homeland; sometimes religious)   Athens (Greece and Texas), Palestine (Middle East and Texas), New Mexico (settlers named new home after previous home), Zion, Chapel Hill, Jerusalem  
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Post-Colonial Toponyms   toponyms named after colonial times  
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Postrevolutionary Toponyms   toponyms named after revolutionary times  
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memorial toponyms   Washington, Jacksonville  
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Commodification toponyms   agriculture-based toponyms  
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weird toponyms   Kdajfkldhfgjaghj, NY  
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Body Part/Bathroom Humor Toponyms   Broken Knee, Bended Elbow  
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Hinduism food laws   no cows  
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Jewish food laws   Kosher laws  
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Islam food laws   Halal  
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Western religions think...   linearly, seeking converts  
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Eastern religions think...   cyclically, not seeking converts  
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barrio   neighborhood  
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largest ethnic minority   hispanics  
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French Language Laws   any languages presented must also be presented in French  
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lingua franca debate   whether English will still be the lingua franca in 2100  
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housing types   bungalo, single/double pile, ranch, & irregular mass  
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religious hearths   where religions begin and remain based out of  
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Noah Webster   wrote the first dictionary  
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basques   Non-Indo-European languages  
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standard language   most-spoken language  
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official language   government enforced language  
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disposal of the dead   burial, cremation, & exposure  
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identifying against   using one's natural culture to critique and understand the culture of another (to observe how they are different)  
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syncretic   borrowing beliefs from other religions  
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orthodox church   suppressed in the 20th century; one of three major branches of Christianity; revivial in Soviet areas  
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