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AP Human Geo
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Geography
12th Grade
11/05/2012

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Custom
Definition
the frequent repetition of an act to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people
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Folk Culture
Definition
culture traditionally practiced by a small homogeneous rural group living in relative isolation
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Habit
Definition
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual
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Popular Culture
Definition
Culture founding a large, heterogeneous society that shoves certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
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Taboo
Definition
A restriction on behavor imposed by social custom
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Terrior
Definition
The contribution o a location's distinctive physical features to the very food tastes
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British Received Pronunciation

(BRP)

Definition
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard on the united kingdom
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Creole or Creolized Language
Definition
A language that results from mixing of a colonized language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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Dialect
Definition
A reginal variety of a language distingushed by vocabulary, spelling, and pronucation.
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Ebonics
Definition
Dialect spoken by some African Americans
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 Extinct Language
Definition
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
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Franglais
Definition
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language
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Ideograms
Definition
system of writing used in China and other East Asia countries in which even symbol represents an idea or concept
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Isoglass
Definition
A boundary that separates regions in which difficult languages usages predominate
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Isolated Language
Definition
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
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Language
Definition
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
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Language Branch
Definition
A collcetion of languages related through a common ancestor that existict several thousand years ago
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Langauge Family
Definition
collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor language between recoded history
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Langauge group
Definition
collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display few differences in grammar
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Lingua Franca
Definition
A language mutually understood and community used in the trade by people who have different native languages
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Literary Tradition
Definition
A language that is written as well as spoken
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Official Language
Definition
Language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publicationof documents
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Pidgin Langauge
Definition
A form o speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of Lingca Franca, used to communicate
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Spanglish
Definition
combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans
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Standard Language
Definition
form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications
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Vulgar Latin
Definition

A form of Latin used in delay conversation by accident Romans as opposed to the standard dialect, which is used for official documents 

 

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Animism
Definition
Belief that objects such as plants and stones have a discrete spirit and conscious life
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Autonomous Religion
Definition

 

A religion that does not have a certain authority but shares idea and coperates informailly

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Branch
Definition
A large and fundamental division within a religion
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Caste
Definition
The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law
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Cosmogony
Definition
A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
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Denomination
Definition
a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and adimistrative body
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Diocese
Definition
basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church
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Ethnic Religion
Definition
a religion with relatively concentrated spatial distribution -- principles are likely to be based in physical characteristics
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Fundamentalism
Definition
literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles at religion
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Ghetto
Definition
in the middle ages a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by --
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Hierarchical Religion
Definition
A religion in lunch a central authority exercisers a high degree of control
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Missionary
Definition
An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion
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Monotheism
Definition
Doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god
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Pagan
Definition
A followers of polytheistic religion in ancient times
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Pilgrimage
Definition
A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes
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Polytheism
Definition
Beleif in or worship of one or more Gods
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Sect
Definition
a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
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Solstice
Definition
Time when the sun is farthest from the equator
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Universalizing Religion
Definition
A religion attempts to appeal to all people not just those living in a particular location
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Apartheid
Definition
laws in South African that physically separated difficult races into affect geographic areas
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Balkanization
Definition
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
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Balkanized
Definition
a small area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stude states
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Block busting
Definition
a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell houses at low prices to stop colored people from moving in
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Centripetal force
Definition
An attiude that tends to unify people and enchance support for a state.
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Ethnic cleasing
Definition
Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly remorces a less powerful one in order to create ethnical homogeneous region
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Ethnicity
Definition
Identify with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits
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Multi-ethnic state
Definition
state that contains more than one ethnicity
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Multinational state
Definition
state that contains two or more ethnic group within traditions of self-determination
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Nationalism
Definition
loyalty and devotion to particular nationality
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Nationality
Definition
Identity within a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a place
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Nation state
Definition
A state whose territory corresponds to -- occupied by a particular ethnicity as the crude birthrate minus crude death rate
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Race
Definition
Identity with a group at people descended from a common ancestor
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Racism
Definition
Belief that race is the primarily determination of human traits are capacities
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Racist
Definition
A person who subscribes to beliefs of a racism
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Self-determination
Definition
concept of that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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Sharecropper
Definition
A person who works field rented from a land owner and pays the rent
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Triangular Slave Trade
Definition
A practice in the 18th century in Cuhicch Europe transported slaves from Africa to Carbeias
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