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| Process when the less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of the more influential one. |
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| Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. |
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| Concrete human creations, which reflects, values, bleiefs, and behvaiors. |
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| When the dominant culture completely absorbs the less dominant one. |
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| A religion founded in Iran (1863) by Husan Ali (called Bahullah) teaching the essential worth of all religions, the unity of all races, and the equality of the sexes. |
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| Manner of behaving or acting |
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| Something believed; an opinion or conviction about something |
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| The ability to speak two languages fluently |
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| Religion; originated in India by Buddah and later spread to parts of southeast Asia |
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| System of ethnicities, education, and state manship taught by confucius and his diciples. |
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| a form of espansion diffusion in which an innovation spreads across contagious space. |
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| a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish ancestry. |
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| a perspective that emphasizes human culture as ultimately more important than physical enviornment in shaping human actions |
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| early cultural hearths were centers for innovation and invention, and their non-material and material culture spread to aread around them through a process called cultural diffusion |
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| field that studies the relationship between the natural enviornment and culture |
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| transformation of the lnd and the ways that humans interact with the enviornment and an important component of the human geography course. |
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| the areas where civilization first began that radiated the customs, innovations, and ideologies that culturally transformed the world. |
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| the modification of the natural landscape by human activities |
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| is the practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards |
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| the process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
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| consists of common values, beleifs, behaviors, and artifacts that make a group in an area distinct from others |
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| an area marked by culture that distinguishes it from other regions |
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| a group of interconnected culture complexes |
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| a single attribute of a culture |
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| a type of Buddhism belief system |
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| a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. |
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| the jews living in countries outside Israel |
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| Durkheim's sacred and profane |
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| Durkheim's theory; the sacred represents the interest of the group, the profane involves individual concerns |
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| Orthodox Catholic Church; 2nd largest Christian Chruch in the world |
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| enviornmental determinism |
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| belief that the physical enviornment, especially the climate and terrain, actively shapes cultures, so that human responses are almost completely molded by the enviornement. |
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| religion that appeals primarily to one group of people living in one place |
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| the oractice if judging another culture by the standardsof one's own culture |
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| language that has not been put to use, and is not practiced anymore |
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| controlled by tradition, and its resistance to stay is strong, most groups are self-sufficient and most of their supplies tend to be homemade. |
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| when many people who live in a land space share at least some of the same folk customs |
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| is the composite culture, both material and non-material, that shapes the lives if folk societies, such as those in rural areas in the early settlement of the U.S. |
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| a culture region that can represent an entire culutre system that interwines with its locational and enviornmental circumstances. |
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| famous geographer that wrote about cultural diffusion. |
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| the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
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| a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia |
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| ideology-with roots in Ancient Greece and Rome, which rmphasizes the baility of human beings to guide their own lives |
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| development that can be traced to a specific civilization |
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| Indo-European Language Family |
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| divided into 8 branches that are related to a common ancestor |
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| the religion of the muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the prophet of Allah |
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| a boundary that seperates regions in which different language usages predominate |
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| the monotheistic religion of the Jews |
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| 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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| a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor that existed long before recorded history |
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| a group of languages that have similar pronunciation adn grammatical structures, and even closer languages |
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| a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
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| a condition in which many languages are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people |
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| is the study of speech areas and their local variations by mapping word choices, pronunciations, or grammatical constructions |
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| one of the two major traditions of Buddhism |
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| the political and ecnomic theories of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engles, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism |
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| this type of culture includes a wide range of concrete human creations called artifacts |
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| is a type of diffusion when something is prevalent in its hearth for a breif period, but then dies in its hearth by the time it spreads outward to other areas |
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| the act of using multiple languages |
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| this type of culture consists of abstract concepts of values, beliefs, and behaviors. |
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| A shared expectation of behaviors that connotes what is considered culturally desirable and appropriate |
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| the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of buisness and publication of documents |
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| a grammatically simplified form of a langugae, used for communication between people not sharing a common language |
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| culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
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| followers of any of the Western Christian Churches that are seperate from the other Churches |
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| identification with a specific geographic region of a nation |
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| religion: branches,denominations,sects |
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| terms that seperate a religion into different categories and groups |
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| the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another |
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| members of the Roman Catholic Church; different branch of Christianity |
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| Focused on the movement of people, goods, and ideas (agricultural origins and dispersals) |
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| an ethinic religion in which people follow their Shaman, a religious leader and teacher who is believed to be in contact with the supernatural |
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| Second largect denomination of Islam and adherents of Islam |
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| a monotheistic religion founded in a punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak |
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| the form of a language used for official buisness, education, and mass communication |
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| The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected |
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| one of the two main branches of Islam- understanding its acceptance of the first three caliphs |
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| presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic and cultural levels of geographic meanings |
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| a thing that represents/stands for something else-material object representing something abstract |
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| the process of the fusion of old and new |
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| a multifacted system of Buddhist thought and practice which evolved over several centuries |
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| the more conservative of the two major traditions of Buddhism |
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| the effect of distance and time on cultural or spatial patterns |
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| study of place names-interest in linguistic geography |
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| an internal part of a local culture and society |
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| decribes the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures |
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| a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location |
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