Ap Human Geography Unit 3 Flashcard
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when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture
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Acculturation
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the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture
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Assimilation
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new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people
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Cultural Adaptation
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the place and location of a specific culture based on ecology
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Cultural Ecology
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the landscape in which people have affected by cultural means
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Cultural Landscape
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a group of culture traits
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Culture Realm
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group of culture realms, in formal, functional, and vernacular
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Culture Region
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expansion and relocation, expansion is the expanding, and relocating is moving
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Diffusion Types
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Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another
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Maladaptive Diffusion
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Refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey
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Sequence Occupancy
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strategies that make people adapt to the prevailing culture
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Adaptive Strategies
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a prevailing culture in a homogeneous population
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Folk Culture
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a culture that is always changing by a heterogeneous population
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Popular Culture
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a formalized pidgin language
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Creole
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variant of a language
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Dialect
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Romance and Germanic languages spoken by about 50% of the world's population
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Indo-European Languages
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geographical boundary lines where linguistic features meet
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Isogloss
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and group of languages with the same proposed hearth
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Language Family
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a grouping of languages by geographers based on similarities, etc.
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Language Group
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a section of a language family
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Language Subfamily
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an international language used for trade and commerce
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Lingua Franca
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mono- one language, multi- more than one language
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Monolingual/Multilingual
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the main language spoken by a country
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Official Language
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a language that is just a mix of several languages
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Pidgin
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a name for a place
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Toponym
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Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, the doctrine saying that the world is infused through spirits, and supernatural powers
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Animism
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a religion stating that there is no god, and that the path to happiness is self-realization
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Buddhism
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monotheistic religion that is most adopted in the world that believes in Christ
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Christianity
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the religion that follows a set of philosophies
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Confucianism
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religion that is adopted mainly by people of one race
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Ethnic Religion
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An enclave is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country; an exclave is one, which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory.
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Exclave/Enclave
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literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion.
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Fundamentalism
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is a method of prediction that interprets markings on the ground, or how handfuls of dirt land when someone tosses them. The Arabic tradition consists of sketching sixteen random lines of dots in sand.
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Geomancy
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the pilgrimage to Mecca for Islam followers, it's the fifth of the five pillars
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Hajj
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the two branches of the Muslim religion, divided by a conflict over the prophet
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Sunni/Shiite
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religion based on Chinese philosophy
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Taoism
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the spreading of a religion worldwide
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Universalizing
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is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster
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Zoroastrianism
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Created in India, approximately one billion followers. Unlike other religions, heaven isn't always the ultimate goal in life. Third largest in world behind Christianity and Islam. Talk about Karma (what goes around comes around.)
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Hinduism
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boundary that separates two religious views
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Interfaith Boundaries
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means the submission to the will of god, also monotheistic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a key religious figure
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Islam
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religion and philosophy originating in ancient India. Stresses spiritual independence and equality throughout all life
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Jainism
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It is the religion of ancient Hebrews, said to be one of the first monotheistic faiths
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Judaism
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mono- one god, poly-many gods
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Monotheistic/Polytheistic
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a branch of Amish Christianity that allows men to have several wives
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Mormonism
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If physically and financially able, a Muslim makes a pilgrimage to Mecca, they usually make the trip around Ramadan, this pilgrimage is also referred to as Hajj
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Muslim pilgrimage
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Referred to as a Universalizing Religion, which is an attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location
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Proselytic Religion
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birth after death
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Reincarnation
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this is the belief that humans should be based on facts and not religious beliefs
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Secularism
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this is the range of traditional beliefs and practices that claim the ability to cure, heal, and cause pain to people
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Shamanism
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it is the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles
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Sharia Law
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said to be the way of god. It is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami (a god). Not very significant anymore and lost importance to today
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Shintoism
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a combination of Hinduism and Islam
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Sikhism
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Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
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Acculturation
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the succession of one race into another
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Assimilation
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death of a wife over the families offer off to marriage
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Dowry Death
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an attempt to remove all the people of one race or ethnicity
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Ethnic Cleansing
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the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture
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Ethnocentrism
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suffrage
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Enfranchisement
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is the practice of someone intentionally causing the death of an infant
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Infanticide
