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| The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another. |
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| Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life |
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| An item from the past (such as a dinosaur bone, or something made by human's in the past. |
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| the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another |
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| Started in Iran in 1800s. Bahai is based on two people. Bahai doesn't take the Qur'an literally. They don't believe in angels or devils. heaven or hell are not places they are condition of the soul. All religions come from the same source. |
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| Observable actions of responses of humans or animals |
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| specific ideas that people hold to be true |
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| The acquisition of two languages that use different speech sounds, vocabularies, and grammatical rules. |
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| a world religion or philosophy based on the teaching of the Buddha and holding that a state of enlightenment can be attained by suppressing worldly desire |
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| The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct. |
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| The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |
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| a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages |
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| Cultural determinism is the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. This supports the theory that environmental influences dominate who we are instead of biologically inherited traits. |
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| the spread of cultural elements from one society to another |
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| Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. |
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| The subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space. |
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| Heartland, source area, innovation center, place of origin of a major culture |
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| the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
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| the practice of judging a culture by its own standards |
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| the process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
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| A related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a society's behavior or activity (may be assoc. with religious beliefs or business practices). |
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| An area in which people have many shared culture traits |
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| A collection of interacting elements taken together shape a group's collective identity. Includes traits, territorial affiliation, shared history, and more complex elements, like language |
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| A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban |
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| philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events |
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| a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation; also a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession |
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| the migration of religious or ethnic groups to foreign lands despite their continued affiliation with the land and customs of their origin |
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| derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites |
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| environmental determinism |
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| the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development |
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| A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. |
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| belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group |
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| A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used. |
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| culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
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| When many people who live in a land space share at least some of the same folk customs. |
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| the composite culture, both material and non-material, that shapes the lives of folk societies |
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| a demarcated area of the Earth |
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| A famous geographer that wrote about cultural diffusion about the same time as Carl sauer |
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| The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places |
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| a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme beingof many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a |
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| the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason |
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| the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other |
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| indo european language family |
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| Family of languages with the greatest number of speakers, spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of southwestern and southern Asia. |
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| the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life |
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| A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate |
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| the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud |
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| the mental faculty or power of vocal communication |
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| Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin |
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| group of languages with more commonality than a language family (indicates they have branched off more recently in history) |
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| a common language used by speakers of different languages |
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| Many languages spoken by a small group of people. |
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| the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features |
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| Mahayanaone of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone |
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| the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded |
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| The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture |
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| spread of an idea through people, in which the phenomena weakens or dies out at its previous source ... moves like a "Slinky" (e.g., spread of the Spanish Flu toward the end of World War I). |
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| common use of two or more languages in a society or country |
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| Human creations, such as values, norms, knowledge, systems of government, language, and so on, that are not embodied in physical objects |
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| rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
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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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| an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages |
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| ulture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
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| eformers who protested some practices of the catholic church |
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| an awareness of being a part of a group of people living in a culture region |
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| The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
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| This branch of Christianity arose because of the Roman's split by Diocletian. |
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| He wrote about diffusion in Agriculural Origins and Dispersals. |
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| n animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans |
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| member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs |
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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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| The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |
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| The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. |
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| one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam |
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| smaller landscapes that symbolize a bigger area or category. iconic landscapes, i.e. the state capitol symbolizes WI. every landscape can symbolize something, but these are focal points for people's attention |
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| designs that stand for other things or ideas |
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| the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections) |
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| The Buddhist yana whose path is the transformation of neurotically confused emotions into their enlightened equivalents. |
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| The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source. |
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| the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language |
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| the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language |
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| cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact |
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| A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. |
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