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| position of things in relation to other things |
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| absolute location of a place or activity described y local relief, landform, and other physical characteristics |
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| relative location of a place or activity in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the larger régional or spatial system of which it is part |
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| Relative/relational direction |
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| far west, middle east, old south |
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| A region marked by relative uniformity of characteristics, such as the Scottish Highlands. The variations within the region are less than variations between the region and other areas |
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| A type of region characterized by its function such as a city-region or a drainage basin |
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| ideantity sharing. American Midwest, ameican northeast, etc. |
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| Maps and scale (small scale, large scale) |
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| neighborhood, etc. physical thins. |
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| a single distinguishing feature of regular occurance within a culture. – chopsticks. |
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| a related set of culure traits – e.g. food prep |
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| – a formal or functional region within which common cultural characteristics prevail. It may be based on single cultural traits, complexes, or other aspects. |
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| a nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those charateriscis and the cultural landscape features they imply. |
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| The spread of cultural innovation through person to person contact, moving wave-like through an area and population without regard to social status |
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| Innovations spread from one important person to another or from one urban center to another, temporarily bypassing persons of lesser importance and rural area |
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| a genuine invention sparked by an idea that diffused in from another culture. The invention of a unique Cherokee writing system by Sequoyah around 1821 after seeing English is an example. |
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| - when people move and take their culture with them. |
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| – the central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, reigion, etc. |
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| family structure, other institutions. |
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| develop or be developed so as to make possible international influence or operation |
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| sharing a culture, based on race, religion, etc. |
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| assimilate or cause to assimilate a different culture, typically the dominant one |
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| take in ideas, or cultures and understand fully. |
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