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| Roles specifically assigned to men or women in a culture. |
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| Referring to a city setting, usually has a high population density and diverse cultures. |
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| Mountain range that runs through western Russia and is considered to be the dividing line between Europe and Asia. |
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| Containing a mix of peoples and culture. |
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| Divisions of a cultures people based on wealth, power and prestige |
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| Refers to how easy or hard it is to change one’s social class within a culture. |
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| Region where people share common cultural characteristics. |
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| Area defined by one function that may cross political boundaries. Often they are organized around a focal point such as a city. |
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| Based on people's attitudes and emotion about a place. Ex: The "deep south" |
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| Region that at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
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| Canal that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea and shortens the traveling distance between Europe and Asia. |
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| Applies to all of the Americas south of the United States. It has 4 main areas, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies (Caribbean) and South America. |
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| An important human-made feature in this region that goes through the isthmus of Panama joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and serves as a major route for international trade. |
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| The areas of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Many different ethnic groups with animistic, Christian, and Islamic religions; many affected by the slave trade and colonization. |
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The Pacific Islands of New Zealand
(colonized by the British) and other smaller nations like Tahiti that are spread across the South Pacific. |
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| The movement of greater numbers of people into cities. |
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| Human factors affect where people settle, like having a capital city at a central location; location along transportation routes; new technology can override physical barriers, and natural resources can attract settlers to an otherwise unfavorable area. |
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| How many people live in a given area. |
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| A visual that compares the number of males in a society and it includes the average ages of its members. Each group will be represented by a different bar. |
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| A slum settlement where poor people live in dwellings made from scrap materials -such as plywood, corrugated metal and plastic sheets. |
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| 73. Push and Pull Factors |
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| the majors reasons for migration that either "push" people out of their old location while "pull" factors lure migrants to a new location. Ex: push- poverty, politcal conflict, environmental factors, oppression. Ex: Pull- freedom, economic opportunity (jobs) cultural ties. |
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| oncern how people organize into groups, such as religious groups. |
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| when they need to migrate due to being persecuted for being members of a particular ethnic group. Ex: Rwandans needed to flee to neighboring countries to avoid being massacred |
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| 76. Religious Persecution |
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| when religious minorities have to leave a place due to their beliefs. |
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| 77. Environmental Factors |
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| migration due to the environment, like a drought, crop failures, floods, fires, earthquakes that force people to migrate. |
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| when a migration is forced such as the Atlantic Slave Trade. This migration has accompanied war and the persecution of people throughout most of history. |
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| natural features that were once a migration to human migration. Examples are mountains, deserts or dense forests. |
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| a natural feature where people used to be able to walk from one land mass to another, like across the Bering Strait now that used to be a land bridge from Asia to North America ( Alaska area) |
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| how something diffuses or spreads |
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| (Cultural Diffusion) when ideas, products, and even cultural traits can spread from one culture to another. |
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| when new plants, animals, ideas and even diseases were exchanged between the peoples of the Americas and those of Europe. |
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| when different cultures exchange ideas and become more similar. |
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| when different cultural influences cause an area to divide into separate parts. |
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| an epidemic over a wide geographic area. |
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