ALL AP HUG KBATS

A state where the majority of power are distributed to the hands of central government officials

A line of latitude or longitude used to make a political barrier between 2 states

The transfer of power from a central government to a lower level of government (regional or local).

A meeting in 1884, with the intention of dividing up the continent of Africa among European imperial powers

When a powerful country gives weaker countries economic pressures that causes the weaker countries to be dependent on the powerful country.

A state that completely surrounds another state.

An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its wishes in another territory.

A state that is mostly compact but has an elongated extension.

The study of the connections between political relationships and the territories in which they occur.

A sovereign city that has a town and a surrounding countryside with the most power in its territory.

Defense of a space against encroachment by other individuals.

A state that has the same distance from the center to its borders.

A state with a long, narrow shape

A large group of people united by history and culture but do not have a common state that they call home

A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea

A state that has 2 or more ethnic groups that govern themselves and coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

A state that contains more than one ethnicity

A state that encompasses a very small land area.

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a certain ethnicity that is homogenous, and is distinct from its surrounding.

The act of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power.

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but displays a mix of autocracy and democracy

A country that is run according to the interests of a ruler rather than the people

A state that allocates strong power to units of local government within the country.

A boundary that is tangible/concrete and is often used as the political barrier between 2 states

A term used to describe the vernacular/non-tangible border between 2 different cultural groups.

A boundary that used to have meaning and can still be detected on the landscape.

Political barriers drawn in an area without regard for cultural divisions for the people living there.

A boundary between 2 states that is created before the area is populated by humans

A boundary that is established after the settlement in that area occurred.

A boundary between opposing groups that was made to stop wars/disputes and establish a clear separation between groups.

A zone of territory where no state has governing authority.

A region that has no local conflicts within states or between countries in the region, but have involvement of opposing great powers from outside the region.

A political movement that intends to reunite a nation or reclaim a lost territory.

Geographic locations when the flow of people and goods can be constricted in the event of a conflict.

The redrawing of the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts that happens every 10 years after the census results.

Defines the territory, rights and responsibilities of nations on the economic usage of the sea.

An alliance in 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European Countries.

An alliance that was made so that any countries in the alliance would defend each other if attacked by another country outside of the treaty.

A condition when there is equal strength between countries or alliances of countries.

An International organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.

A union of some European countries to promoted development within member states through economic cooperation.

An organization of African states established in 2002 to promote political and economic development.

A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.

Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group.

Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.

A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward.

Tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles, and technologies.

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.

The social process of replacing one cultural for another, usually from a minority to a majority.

The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.

The spread of cultural elements from one society to another.

The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from small to big

The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures usually minority cultures with disrespect.

When an aspect of two or more distinct cultures blend together to create a new custom, idea, practice, or philosophy.

A population composed of similar people

-A population that consists of people that have many different ethnic, racial, religious, or social backgrounds

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Cultural Syncretism

Collection of Languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and have similar grammar and vocabulary.

A daily used form of Latin spoken by ancient Romans, as opposed to the normal dialect.

Languages that were in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire.

A language that is a result of the mixing, of a colonizer's language of the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.

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

Dialect of English associated with upper class British living in London and is now considered standard in the U.K.

A language spoken daily by people of all ages in a population that has a literary tradition.

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

The language adopted for use by the government for road signs, stamps, money and more.

Mix of French and English.

A dialect spoken by some African Americans

A simplified form of a lingua franca that is understood by 2 people or more people that don't understand the same native language.

A language of international communication that is formed by mixing 2 different languages into a common language.

A language that is written as well as spoken.

A language that is unrelated to other language and is therefore not part of any language families.

A language that was daily used by people but is no longer in use.

Symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words.

An informal, often short-lived type of language used in place of standard words.

A language spoken daily by all ages, but lacks a literary tradition.

A mix of Spanish and English

A mix of German and English

The word-usage boundary that can be constructed for any word.

Relocation Diffusion

Terrior

Television and Internet

Acculturation

Industrial Revolution

Indo European and Sino Tibetan

The forced dispersion of people from their homeland, example Jews from Israel.

A large and fundamental division within a religion

A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body

Religions that appeal primarily to one group of people hiring in one place.

A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination

The belief that objects and natural events have a discrete spirit and conscious life

The migration to Israel by Jewish people.

A unit of land that a Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church watches over.

A unit of land that a priest from the Roman Catholic Church watches over and makes up a Diocese.

Conflict between people of the same religion.