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Unit 1
world history
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History
9th Grade
10/11/2013

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Tolerance
Definition
Acceptance and appreciation of difference
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Culture
Definition
The way a particular group of people has adapted to its environment and background.
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Culture Region
Definition
A place where people share the same culture
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Anthropologist
Definition
A type of social scientist who undertakes a comparative study of human societies and cultures and their development.
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Cultural Traits
Definition
Activities and behaviors that a certain group of people repeatedly practice
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cultural traits are related
Definition
cultural traits tend to influence each other or be related to each other
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Diffusion
Definition
A culture trait that spreads to some other cultures.
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Innovation
Definition
A new idea that is accepted by a culture.
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cultural traits change over time
Definition
This is exactly what it says. Because of social, political, and economic reasons not to mention advancing technology, cultural traits change. For example, the government of China today is much different than it was 20 years ago.
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Acculturation
Definition
A certain culture changes a great deal when it meets another culture.
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Cultural Background
Definition
the aspects of a culture that the members of the cultural group must adapt themselves to
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Background Trait
Definition
The traits of the culture that have been around for a long time and we have to adopt if for surviving today.
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Artifact
Definition
The things that are made by people.
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Values
Definition
A principle or standard that a group holds to be important
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Customs
Definition
The usual way of acting
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Traditions
Definition
A set of values and customs that are passed down over a long period of time from generation to generation.
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Socialization
Definition
The process by which people are taught their culture.
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Cultural Selection
Definition
Each culture chooses its traits from the “cultural spectrum” that are a best fit for their people
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cultural spectrum
Definition
The cultural spectrum is the vast variety of cultural traits that each culture can choose from
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About Cultural Selection
Definition
Each culture has to choose the traits that are compatible with the others, they have to be functional in the society.
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Cultural Integration
Definition
Cultural Integration is the way cultural traits are merged with each other to preserve diversity and create a larger variety in culture.
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Benedict & Integration
Definition
What Benedict is trying to say in the section of reading on integration is that all cultural traits are linked to each other.
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Benedict & Integration 2
Definition
Benedict concludes that to further explore the significance of each individual person.
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How to view other cultures
Definition
All cultures are equal and should be judge fairly.
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???? Viewing others
Definition
Just some cultures choose to do something slightly different, and no people can judge a culture unless they have been a part of the said culture.
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Cultural bias
Definition
cultural bias is the human tendency to believe that your own culture is "norman" and that other cultures are wrong or inferior.
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People's preference
Definition
have bias while looking at other cultures
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Making the familiar strange in order to make the strange familiar means
Definition
looking at your own culture as though you were an outsider--that is, as though it were strange--so that other cultures which appear strange will seem more similar to your own.
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??? About bias
Definition
this is because one wouldn't understand the reason behind something a culture does unless they were a part of the culture.
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What basic human qualities do these societies have in common
Definition
1. They are all self-sufficient. 2. They have their transportation. 3. They all value family. 4. They all have their shelters.
5. They all have hand made things.
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traits that differ
Definition
1. They own different level of technology. 2. They eat different food. 3. They wear different kinds of clothes.
4. The structures of their societies are different. 5. They speak different languages
Term
History
Definition
the study of past
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Something about culture
Definition
All cultures are made up of what people in it say and do.
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Why doesn't a certain culture chooses all traits?
Definition
Cultures have to be limited to their ideas and cultural traits because if they choose more what they need the culture will end up falling apart.
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Why doesn't a certain culture chooses all traits? 2
Definition
If cultures choose all the traits that group would end up splitting and becoming several different group of contradictions.
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Historiography
Definition
The study of how history is written.
Term
Empathize
Definition
People picture themselves into the past situation.
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Observe
Definition
Not only see what happened in the past, but understand this certain event happened.
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About blindness, why we are "blind"?
Definition
We are not in the past situation.
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Why do people need to select in history?1
Definition
People don't have enough time to study everything happened in the past.
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Why do people need to select in history?2
Definition
People just need to choose the events which have impact on us which means the events that shape our society and culture.
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Why do people need to select in history?3
Definition
Some events which were recorded by previous people were not actually correct and we need to select the right ones and filter out the bias.
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Why do people need to study history?1
Definition
To train the ability in people's minds to identify and filter out the bias.
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Why do people need to study history?2
Definition
Because studying history promotes tolerance.
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Why do people need to study history?3
Definition
Because studying history helps to learn ourselves.
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How to get the right conclusion?1
Definition
Looking at multiple sources.
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How to get the right conclusion?2
Definition
Gathering more evidence.
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How to get the right conclusion?3
Definition
People need to filter out the bias.
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What question are historians trying to answer?
Definition
What happened in the past and why did they happen?
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What does the answer rely on?
Definition
The answer relies on the evidence which is abstracted from sources( primary and secondary sources)
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Something about sources
Definition
Sources are often biased and not completely accurate.
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What people should do?
Definition
People should detect the bias and filter the bias out(part of historical thinking)
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What is bias?
Definition
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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What does the bias cause?
Definition
Bias will cause the distortion of the events that happened in the past.
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Word choice (diction)
Definition
One way to detect and filter out bias is through the careful scrutiny of word choice.
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Bias Through Omission
Definition
Is the bias because important information is not reported or is reported incompletely to people. When important news is omitted, people get a skewed or biased perspective
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Bias Through Sources
Definition
The bias which is created by using the inappropriate use of Sources, and the wrong way of using these sources.
Term
what factor appears to cause bias? 1
Definition
Geography
Term
what factor appears to cause bias?2
Definition
Objectivity
Term
what factor appears to cause bias?3
Definition
Institutional affiliations
Term
what factor appears to cause bias?4
Definition
The medium.
Term
Something people can to in order to filter out the bias
Definition
Combine multiple source.
Term
Christian
Definition
a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Jesus Christ and his teachings.
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muslim
Definition
a follower of the religion of Islam
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Islam
Definition
the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
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Chronology
Definition
The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.
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Source
Definition
People can take something away from this stuff.
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Primary source
Definition
the source which is written by the witness
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Secondary Source
Definition
The source which is not written by the witness.
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Evidence
Definition
Something is used by historians to come to a balanced judgment on issues that concern them
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questions
Definition
A part of the historical thinking, asking questions in order to filter out the bias and judge an event objectively.
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Fact
Definition
Real things in history.
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Opinion
Definition
A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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Hypothesis (theory)
Definition
A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
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Interpretation
Definition
What people get after filtering out the bias from sources.
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causation
Definition
The belief that events occur in predictable ways and that one event leads to another
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Generalization
Definition
The conclusion bases on little evidence.
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