AP Human Geography: Unit 3 Vocab – Flashcards
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Adapting SOME of the traits of the more influential culture.
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Acculturation
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Adopting ALL of the traits of the more influential culture-->changing to be like the majority.
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Assimilation
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The idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties
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Cultural Core/Periphery Pattern
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The combination of the cultural traits that is in a group that spreads over an area.
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Cultural Realm
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The unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment; those aspects of culture that serve to provide the necessities of life- food, clothing, shelter, and defense.
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Adaptive Strategies
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The part of the physical landscape that represent material culture; the buildings, roads, bridges, and similar structures large and small of the cultural landscape
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Built Environment
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Items in a society.
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Material Culture
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What the material items mean.
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Non-Material Culture
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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
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Folk Culture
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Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
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Popular Culture
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Folk Housing are building styles that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area. Pop Housing are building styles that become popular and are made in mass productions. Sentence: Folk Housing goes by tradition and Pop Housing goes by what's in style. Example: F: amish houses P: legacy park houses
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Housing (Folk and Pop)
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A mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
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Creole
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The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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Dialect
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A family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects,[1] including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India, and historically also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia.
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Indo-European Languages
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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
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Isogloss
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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
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Lingua Franca
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The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
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Official Language
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An artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
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Pidgin
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The study of the origins and meaning of place-names.
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Toponymy
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A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other.
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Trade Language
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The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls
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Animism
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The teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth.
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Buddhism
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A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior
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Christianity
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Focus on one ethnic group and generally have not spread into other cultures. Do not seek converts outside group; tend to be spatially concentrated; main exception is Judaism.
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Ethnic Religions
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Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect).
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Fundamentalism
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the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah.
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Hadj
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A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms.
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Hinduism
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Boundaries between the world's major faiths.
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Interfaith Boundaries
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The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran.
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Islam
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A religion based on four principles;injure no life, tell the truth, do not steal, and own no property. Believe that everything in the universe has a soul and therefore should not be harmed.
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Jainsim
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A monotheistic religion that originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. The Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud.
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Judaism
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The certain areas where people have commonly been buried.
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Landscapes of the Dead
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The belief in a single God.
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Monotheism
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The belief in more than one god.
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Polytheism
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Founded by Joseph Smith, who claimed he was visited by God, and in 1830 he published a document called The Book of Mormon. This term is used to describe religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is practiced around the world, but is concentrated in Utah.
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Mormonism
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A term that describes a universalizing religion.
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Proselytic Relgion
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The place where a religion is born.
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Religious Cultural Hearths
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This refers to the origin and meaning of the names of religions. This is important to human geography because many names mean significant things including beliefs or cultures.
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Religious Toponyms
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The place where religious figures and congregations meet to perform religious ceremonies. It is a place or space people infuse with religious meaning.
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Sacred Space
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A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.
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Secularism
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The code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed.
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Sharia Law
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Religion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship.
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Shintoism
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The doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam.
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Sikhism
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Syncretic Relgion
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A government controlled by religious leaders.
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Theocracy
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A religion that attempts to appeal to all people no matter place or culture.
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Universalizing Relgion
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A system of religion founded in Persia (6th cent) by Zoroaster. Taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end. Influenced Judaism and Christianity.
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Zoroastrianism
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A Spanish-speaking neighborhood.
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Barrio
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A politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict. It is a zone of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups.
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Cultural Shatterbelt
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The mass expulsion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area.
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Ethnic Cleansing
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A small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture.
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Ethnic Enclave
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The concept of the place (cultural geography) to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with.
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Ethnic Homeland
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A classification based on cultural characteristics. Qualities or affiliations resulting from racial or cultural ties.
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Ethnicity
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Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
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Ethnocentrism
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A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.
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Ghetto
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Identity with a group of people who are descended from a common ancestor.
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Race
