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| adoption of the culture traits of surrounding cultures. |
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| belief that objects have a discrete spirit. |
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| a human made item from the past |
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| when one culture completely absorbs a different culture |
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| new faith founded in Iran |
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| observable actions or responses of humans. |
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| ideas that people hold to be true |
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| ability to speak more than one language |
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| religion that teaches that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire |
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| code for moral conduct based on family loyalty |
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| when almost all individuals and areas outward from the source region are affected. |
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| mother tongue that originates from a pidgin |
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| the belief that cultural influences determine the behaviors of people |
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| spread of cultural ideas from one society to another |
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| emphasizes human environment interactions |
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| looks at how cultures vary over space |
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| place of origin of a culture |
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| the modification of the natural landscape by human activities |
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| practice of judging a culture by it's own standards |
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| process in which one generation passes culture to the next |
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| common culture traits that make a group in an area distinct from others. |
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| area marked by culture that distinguishes it from other regions |
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| group of interconnected culture complexes |
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| single element of normal practice in a culture |
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| religion that emphasized a simple, honest life. |
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| usage or vocabulary that is a characterisitic of a specific group of people; language branches |
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| forced exodus from lands of origin |
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| Durkheim's sacred and profane |
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sacred: the religious, transcendent world
profane: secular, everyday world |
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| derived from Byzantine church- adhering to Byzantine rights. |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life |
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| appeals primarily to one group of people living in one place |
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| belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group |
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| languages once in use but no longer spoken |
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| traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas |
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| when many people who live in a land space share at least some of the folk customs |
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| the composite culture, both material and non material, that shapes the lives of folk society |
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| a demarcated area of Earth |
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| famous geographer who wrote about cultural diffusion |
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| Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons |
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| body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and theory that opposing aspects are part of one truth |
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| doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason |
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| the term for a trait with many cultural hearths ind. of each other |
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| Indo-European Language Family |
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| Family with largest number of speakers. Spoken in Europe, European settlement and South West and south Asia. |
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| Religion of Muslims that govern way of life. |
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| Boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. |
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| monotheistic religion of Jews that has it's spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Toran |
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| power of vocal communication |
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| group of languages with shared but fairly distant origin |
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| group of languages with more commonality than a language family. |
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| common language used by speakers of different languages |
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| many languages spoken by a small group of people |
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| the study of geographical distribution of linguistic feautures |
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| 1/2 great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation |
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| economic/ political theories of Marx and Engels that holds human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change. Capitalism is bad |
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| includes a wide range of concrete human creations |
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| where the spread of culture traits is slow enough that they weaken in the area of origin by time |
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| religion that worships one God |
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| ability to communicate in 2 or more languages. |
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| consists of abstract concepts of values, beliefs, and behaviors. |
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| the rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of it's members. |
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| language endorsed and recognized by the government as the one everyone should use. |
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| an amalgamation of languages that borrows several words from other languages |
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| culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits. |
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| reformers who protested some practices of the Catholic church |
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| an awareness of being part of a group of people living in a culture region |
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branches : large and basic divisions within a religion
denominations: division of branches unite groups
sects: relatively small groups that don't affiliate with main stream |
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| the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another |
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| this branch of Christianity arose because of the Roman's split by Diocletiean |
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| He wrote about diffusion in agricultural origins and dispersal's |
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| ethnic religion that has the belief of animism |
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| branch of Islam makes up 16% of Muslims |
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| Universalizing religion doctrines of monotheistic religion found in India |
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| language used for official gov't buisness |
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| form of expansion diffusion |
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| 83% of all muslims- main branch of Islam |
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