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| assimilate or cause to assimilate a different culture, typically the dominant one |
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| absorb or integrate and use for one's own benefit |
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| adjusting to a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language |
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| Locations on the earth's surface where specific cultures first arose. |
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| the study of the relationship between a culture group and the natural environmental it occupies |
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| the way people categorize their culture, sometimes by the way they dress and what they eat |
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| the earth's surface as modified by human action |
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| the entire region that displays the characteristics of a culture |
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| the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of society |
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| A region within which common culture characteristics prevail |
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| an area inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common, such as language, religion, or system of livelihood. |
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Areas served by business and economic activities. (the local cable or power company)
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| Using language or customs native to a region. ("Dixie"or "Midwest") |
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| the spread of a culture element or some other phenomenon |
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| The idea that innovation spreads outward from the hearth. |
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| the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or place. |
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| the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population. |
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| the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse. |
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| the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another. |
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| Study of how, why and what rate new technology spread throughout a culture. |
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| Diffusion of a process with negative side effects |
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| theory that a place is occupied by different groups of people, each group leaving an imprint on the place from which the next group learns |
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| the unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment |
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| Anglo-American landscape characteristics |
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| An American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English |
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| the look of housing, effected by the available materials, the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time |
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| part of the physical landscape that represents material culture; the landscape created by humans |
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| isolated group that has had long-lasting culture traits that have not changed substantially over time |
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| Food that is traditionally made by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture |
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| houses that reflect cultural heritage, current fashion, functional needs, and the impact of environment. The form of each house is related in part to environmental as well as social conditions |
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| songs that tell a story or convey information about daily activities such as farming, life cycle events, or mysterious events such as storms and earthquakes |
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| consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, and customs that are the traditions of that culture, subculture, or group |
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| the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people |
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| the oral traditions, songs, and stories of a culture group along with its beliefs and customary behaviors |
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| cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, western societies |
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| distinct system to land surveying |
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| to indicate originality within a culture or long-term part of an indigenous society. It is the opposite of modernized, superimposed, or changed; it denotes continuity and historic association |
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| A language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue |
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| Local or regional characteristics of a language |
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| The border of usage of an individual word or pronunciation |
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| Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin |
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| a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary |
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| roup of languages with more commonality than a language family (indicates they have branched off more recently in history) |
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| An existing, well established language of communication and commerce used widely where it is not a mother tongue. |
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| a way of representing the amount of living languages operating in the world today |
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Monolingual:A society's or country's use of only one language of communication for all purposes.
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Multilingual:The common use of two or more languages in a society or country. |
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| A governmentally designated language of instruction of government, of the courts, and otehr official public and private communication |
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| When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary |
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| The place names of a region or, especially, the study of place names. |
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| A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade |
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| A religion that is particular to one, culturally distinct, group of people |
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| a portion of territory of one state completely surrounded by territory of another or others, as viewed by the home territory |
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| a portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct. |
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| a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture |
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| The Chinese art and science of placement and orientation of tombs, dwellings, buildings and cities. Structures and objects are positioned in an effort to channel flows of sheng-chi in favorable ways. |
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| (in Chinese thought) a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy |
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| the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime. |
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| the boundaries between the world's major faiths, such as Christianity, Muslim, and Buddhism. |
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| The certain areas where people have commonly been buried |
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| The worship of only one god |
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| The worship of more than one god. |
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| If physically and financially able, a Muslim makes a pilgrimage to Makkah |
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| It is the religion of 1.3 billion people in the world. It is the predominant religion of the Middle East from North Africa to Central Asia |
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| A religion that actively seeks converts and has the goal of converting all humankind. |
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| the belief that after this life you will come back in another life either as a plant, animal, or a human life. So basically what you do in this life will affect what your next life is like. |
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| the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction. |
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| a temple or sacred building, usually a pyramid like tower and typically having upward-curving roofs over the individual stories |
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| a Muslim temple or place of public worship |
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| a building for public Christian worship |
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| this is the conflicts between religions |
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| Sunnis and Shi'is do not disagree religious issues. The rift between the two, rather, developed along historical and political lines, on the question of who was to be the legitimate leader of the Muslim community after the passing of the Prophet Muhammad. |
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-Muslims believe in one God
-Hindus believe in many gods.
*Muslims can marry four women if they can care for all of them equally
*Hindus can only marry one woman
~both Islam and Hinduism teach love and tolerance. both are peaceful religions. |
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| This is where most religions are born |
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