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| to take in and utilize as nourishment |
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| law or rule in different country |
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| adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group |
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| residential pattern where a newly married couple lives independently in anew location |
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| neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area |
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| transformation of goods and services into a commodity |
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| the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions |
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| processes that seem to accelerate the experience of time and reduce the significance of distance during a given historical moment. |
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| restructuring of a place or territory that has experienced deterritorialization |
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| properties uniquely representing the combined work of nature and of man |
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| divide up the world into a number of different scales |
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| different word for globalization and localization. |
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| regions that contain houses built for cultural purposes |
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| the spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread |
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| human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning |
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| community built to human scale preserves itself and its place |
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| physical objects people have about their culture |
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| nonphysical ideas people have about their culture |
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| form of diffusion in which an idea spreads by trickling down from larger to smaller adoption units |
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| distinctive set of culture traits, ideas and technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those characteristic |
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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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| A large and fundamental division within a religion. |
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| The class of distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law. |
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| set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. |
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| A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. |
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| The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church. |
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| A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. |
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| Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion |
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| During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. |
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| A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control. |
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| An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion. |
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| The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god. |
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| A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. |
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| A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes. |
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| Belief in or worship of more than one god. |
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| A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination. |
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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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| The boundaries between the world’s major faiths. |
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| The boundaries within a major religion. |
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| The service and worship of God or the supernatural. |
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| A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations. |
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| Form of a tribal religion that involved community acceptance of a shaman, a religious leader, healer, and worker of magic who, through special powers, can intercede with and interpret the spirit world. |
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| A worldwide movement, originating in the 19th century that sought to establish and develop a Jewish nation in Palestine. Since 1948, its function has been to support the state of Israel. |
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| Japans main religion, believes in two major gods |
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| chinese teachings of confucius |
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| one of 4 major branches of christianity |
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| region of middle east where major religion is Shi'a |
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| sacred places in a religion |
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| When a person is at on with a religion |
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| variety of related topics such as philosophical and religious traditions and concepts that have influenced East Asia for over two millennia and the West for over two centuries |
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| a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible |
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| a set of beliefs and practices originating from the bible |
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| the religion articulated by the Qur’an |
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| architectural features of Islamic mosques |
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| rules that islamic people should follow |
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| religious duty of Muslims |
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| set of beliefs and practices from Buddha |
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| ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. |
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| several forced expulsions of Israelites from what is now the states of Israel |
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| world's second largest Christian communion |
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| world's largest Christian church |
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| systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group |
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| belief in a strict adherence to a set of basic principles |
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| particular variety of a language that has been given either legal status |
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| variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers |
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| specific type of language border |
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| relationship between languages in which speakers of different but related languages can readily understand each other without intentional study or extraordinary effort |
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| range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area, differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close |
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| group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor |
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| major division of a language family |
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| a systematic change over time in the pronunciation of a set of sounds in a language |
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| unattested, reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European languages |
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| techinique ued to track sound shifts back towards the original language |
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| Language that is used no more |
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| Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to recreate the language that proceeded the extinct language |
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| proposed language family that includes many of the indigenous language families of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America |
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| 2 languages spliting apart |
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| dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia |
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| idea that the proto-indo-european language family was spread through the conquest of neighboring states, and as they were conquered they adopted the conquering state's language |
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| branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all the languages that descend from Latin |
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| group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European language family. coming from Germany |
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| group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages |
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| language systematically used to communicate between persons not sharing a mother tongue |
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| simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common |
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| stable language that originated from a mixture of various languages |
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| places that only speak one language |
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| places that speak more than one language |
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| language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other territory |
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| Language spoken in many parts of the world: English |
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