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| What is the largest ethnic group in America? |
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| What region of the USA does this ethnic group live? |
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| Florida, Texas, California, New Mexico |
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| What is the de facto second language of the United States? |
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| What is the English literacy rate of the largest ethnic group in the USA? |
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| What is the lingua franca of East Africa? |
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| What part of the western hemisphere is where contact betweeen English and African languages resulted in the development of a pidgin language? |
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| Carribean region; creole(language made) |
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| What language family is Esperanto a member of? |
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| Some monolingual states are.... |
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| Japan, Uruguay, Venezuela, Iceland, Portugal, Poland, Lesotho |
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| Describe the language mosaic of Belgium. |
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| Dutch-speaking in the North(flanders) and a French-speaking in the South(Wallonia), in center it is bilingual but majority is french speaking |
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| What is the official language of the USA? |
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| What language did Nigeria adopt as its official language? |
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| What country in the world has the most official languages? |
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| What do many former African colonies choose as their official language? |
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| English, French, or Portuguese |
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| A term derriving from "Frankish language" and applying it to a tounge spoken in ancient Mediterranean ports that consisted of a mixture of Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, and even some Arabic. Today it refers to a "common language," a second language that can be spoken and understood by many peoples, although they speak other languages at home |
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| Ethnic term first applied in the Caribbean region to the native-born descendants or the Spanish conquerors and their local consorts. |
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| In multilingual countries the language selected, often by the educated and politically powerful elite, to promote internal cohesion;usually the language of the courts and government |
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| A lingua franca that has been simplified and modified through contact with other languages |
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| A made-up Latin-based language, which its European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language |
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| Countries in which more than one language are in use |
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| The study of the origins and meaning of place-names |
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| Proccess describing the convergence of two or more languages, forming a separate, new language |
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| Countries in which only one language is spoken |
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| What is the most widely spoken Chinese dialect? |
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| What is the language most used as a second language? |
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| What country has the most amount of languages spoken in it? |
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| What is the most widely deispersed language family in the world? |
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| What is India's principle and largest Indo-European language? |
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| What is the 2nd largest language family in India? |
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| What is the correlation between Europe's linguistic and political organization? |
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| Approximately how many languages are spoken in the world today? |
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| Approximately how many language families exist in the world today? |
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| Why aren't languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara desert listed as major world languages? |
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| What is the most widely used Indo-European language today? |
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| Local or regional characteristics of a language;pronunciation variation as well as grammar and vocab |
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| A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs |
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| Peoples who speak their language but do not write it. No cultural preservation. |
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| The variant of a language that a country;s political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life. |
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| Languages that changed into different dialects because of time and isolation from the home source |
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| Linguistic diversification |
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| Spoken by half of the world |
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| Languages that are grouped that are thought to have a shared,fairly distant, origin |
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| The diversificatin of languages has long been charted through analysis of... |
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| Lagnuages of traditional, numerically smaller, and technologically less advanced peoples have been replaced, or greatly modified, by the languages of invaders. |
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| The predecessor of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit |
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| Proto-Indo-European Language |
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| The oldest,largest, and most widely distributed family;spread from the shore of Hudson Bay to the coast of Tierra del Fuego. |
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| If it is possible to deduce a large part of the vocab of on excint language, it may feasible to go even further and re-create the language that preceded it. |
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| Caused long-isolated languages to make contact. |
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| Subfamily of Austronesian; Became the forerunner of a large number of languages, including those spoken by the first settlers of Madagascar, the islands of Melanesia and Micronesia, Fiji, and New Zealand. |
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| The basic process of language formation and differentiation over time and space. |
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| The basic process of language formation and differentiation over time and space. |
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| The core of the pre-Proto-Indo-European language. |
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| Maori people of New Zealand speak what language? |
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| The 2nd oldest, next largest, but much less widely diffused language family; Spoken by Native Americans or northwest Canada and part of Alaska as well as by the Apache ad Navajo. |
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| Last language family to arrive in North America; Spoke along Arctic and near Arctic shores. |
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| An ancestral language gave rise to the Austro-Tai family of languages, and out of this family arose.... |
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| Cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which the forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning. These clearing are usually abandoned after a few years in favor of newly cleared forestland. Also known as shash-an-burn agriculture. |
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| Farmers who grow only enough food to survive. |
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| Hunting for your food in nature |
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| By applying simple agricultural techniques allowing humans to increase the carrying capacity of the Earth, and it fundamentally transformed human understanding and use of the environment; Plant and animal domestication, and subsistence farming. Bay of Bengal |
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| The 1st Agricultural Revolution |
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| When people extract something from the Earth;hunting and gathering, diamond mining, livestock herding |
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| Activities concerned with the conversion of raw materials into intermediate or finished products.Bronze and Iron age; Toys,pottery,buildings |
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| Economic activity concerned with information and the exchange of money or capital. |
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| Service industries; People who connect producers to consumers, thus facilitating commerce and trade who provide essential services in a complex society. |
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| First to analyze spatial character of economic activity; 4 zones:Market gardening and dairying->Forest-> Increasingly extensive field crops, grains->ranching,livestock |
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| The spheres of research and higher education. |
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| 17th and 18th century;Agriculture and Indsutrial Revolution;Understanding the spatial layout of agriculture(Von Thunen's rings);Boserup's Theory. |
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| 2nd Agricultural Revolution |
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| Adopted along the eastern seaboard, in which natural features were used to demarcate irregular parcels of land. |
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| A related influence on patterns of settlement and land use. |
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| System where the eldest son in a family-or, in exceptional cases, daughter-inherits all of a dying parents land. |
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| System that divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals. It reflects a particular approaach to surveying that was common in French America. |
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| A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across famlands of the U.S. interior. |
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| Township-and-range system |
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| Houses in which layout, contruction, and appearance have not been significantly altered by external influences over the past century. Such house may be modified over time WITHIN the culture, not borrowing from other cultures. |
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| Unchanged-traditional dwellings |
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| New building materials have been used or elements added that do not fundamentally alter their original structure or layout |
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| Modified-traditional dwellings |
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| Building materials, floor plans, and general layout are altered. elements of traditional house persist, modernization has taken over tradition. |
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| Modernized-traditional dwellings |
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| Houses with advanced technology, upward mobility, practicality, comfort, hygiene and large scale suburbanization.; Most common in U.S. |
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| Wood-frame construction;"saltbox" |
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| 1 room, log cabin,stone chimney, fire place at one end. Porch and 2nd floor added later. |
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| 1 story, smaller due to climate, built on raised platforms |
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| A general term for large scale, mechanized industrial agriculture that is controlled by corporate intrests. |
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| Faarming that ocurrs only in areas where the dry summer Meditteranean climate prevails. |
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| Meditteranean agriculture |
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| European colonial powers set up huge plantations for the cultivation of these; tea, cacao, coffee and tobacco |
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| When cash crops are grown on large estates. |
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| Successful recent development of higher yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries, which led to increased production per unit area and a dramatic narrowing of the gap between population growth and food needs. |
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| Rice that was able to be grown in a cycle of 110 days under warm conditions, producing 3 crops per year. It was bred from 13 parents to achieve genetic resistance against 15 pests. |
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| What is the relationship between the 2nd Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution? |
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| The Industrial Revolution helped spread the 2nd Agricultural Revolution around the world. |
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| What country is the world's leading exporter of rice? |
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| What colonial power established enormous tea plantations in Asia? |
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| Name 2 events that have boosted the demand for rubber? |
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| World Wae II and the invention of the automobile |
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| Farming was promoted in former colonial countries by who? |
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| Country that consumes over half of the world's annual production of coffee? |
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| What area of China has the strongest commercial agricultural production? |
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