AP Human Geo - Unit 7 Test

A repeated act that becomes a characteristic of an individual

A repeated act that becomes a characteristic of a group

A collection of habits and customs

Culture practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group that live in isolation

Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that still shares certain habits

Distinct parts of a culture you can see and touch

Food, Architecture, Clothes, Performances

Beliefs, Practices, and Values

Language, Religion, Social norms of women

Combination of cultural features that makes a region unique from others

A culture banning the consumption or use of foods, animals, etc.

The influence on a place as successive societies leave their cultural imprint

The collapse of two languages into one from spatial interaction

When a new language is formed due to lack of interaction

Immigrants lose their culture and adopt their new host culture

The adoption of behaviour patterns of the surrounding culture

Adopting particular customs to popular culture

Cultural values that unify people

Cultural values that seperate people

A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

Languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence

Languages within a branch that share a common origin in the recent past, with few differences in grammar and vocabulary

Variety of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling, and pronounciation

Indo-European

Germanic

West Germanic

A branch from the Indo-European Family that includes the languages, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese

Has the second most amount of speakers, and the most spoken language, Mandarin.

Celtics lived in England

Angles, Saxons, and Jutes pushed Celtics into Ireland and Cornwall

Norman William the Conqueror and the French invade England in 1066.

The Anglosphere, which is the countries that now speak English through colonialism, Ireland, North America, Australia, Philippines

A theory of the spread of the Indo-European language, Kurgan people at Russian Steppe migrated West and conquered Europe

A theory of the spread of the Indo-European language, farmers in Anatolia, Turkey spread the language through agricultural terms and concepts

Language used by people who have different native languages

A symbol that represents a word instead of a sound

A mix of French and English

New objects discovered after settlers arrived in North America have different spellings, pronunciations, or are completely different words

Settlers were Puritans from East Anglia in SE England, and the characteristic of dropping the r is still shared with the English

Come from SE England, but are mainly prisoners, servants, and political/religious refugees

More diverse, N England, Scots, Irish, German, Dutch, and Swedish

Language used by an international organization to communicate in daily conversations

The form of a language used for official government, business, education, and communication

Boundary that separates regions with different language usages

A form of language that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca

The result of mixing a colonizers language with the current native language

The ability of people communicating in two ways to understand each other without familiarity or effort

A language that children are no longer learning, and the remaining speakers use it less frequently

A language unrelated to any other language

A religion that attempts to appeal to all people across the globe

Concentrated at a single location, and belief is based on certain physical characteristics where the adherents are located

The belief that god does not exist

The belief that the existence of god cannot be proven or disproven

The belief that objects such as plants and stones, or events like earthquakes have a spirit and life

The belief in one god

The belief in multiple gods

A persons identification, and how they relate to their surroundings

Large and fundamental division within a religion

Division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single body

A local assembly of people brought together for common religious worship

Jesus

Siddhartha Gautama

Muhammad

Unknown, somewhere in India

Abraham, likely mythical, Israel

World wide

South, Central, Middle East, Indonesia, North Africa

South East Asia, Japan

India, Nepal, Bangladesh

Israel, United States

Church, Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre

Mosque, Mekah (Masjid al-Haram), Madinah, Jerusalem

Pagoda, Sankasya, Shravasti, Lumbini, Kushinagar, Vaishali, Rajgir, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath

Temples for their gods

Jerusalem

A solar calendar, but Easter is on the Sunday after the first full MOON after Spring Equinox

30 year lunar calendar, months correspond to moon phases

Lunisolar calendar, different branches celebrate holidays on different days

Lunisolar, three major holidays are related to agricultural seasons

Nirvana is attainable only by Monks, found in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos

Nirvana is attainable by all, found in Japan, Korea, Vietnam

Jerusalem

Christianity, Islam, Judaism

Holy leaders related to a successor to Muhammed. Live predominantly in Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen

Holy leaders are selected on merit. Live predominantly in Africa, Indonisia, South and Central Asia

50-300 CE: Missionaries spread through Europe

1500-1900 CE: Colonists spread to Americas, Australia, Africa

Religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally

A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control

Set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.

Religious sect that uncompromisingly follows the foundations of a faith

A fundamentalist group that advocates their way by means of violence

Government whose authority is derived from a deity

Germany, Scandinavian countries (minus Finland), UK, Austria, Switzerland

East Europe (Including Russia)

Hierarchical diffusion, from MDC to MDC

Alter environment to match cultural preferences

They adapt to whatever happens, and the natural landscape is part of their culture

Because of what the landscape allowed. In India, cows were needed to plow the fields.

English and Maltese are mixing on the island of Malta

Norwegian branches off of Swedish because of a mountain range separating the two languages