All vocab terms for units 1-4 in Barron's
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| Anthropogenic | show 🗑
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| Cartography | show 🗑
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| show | The study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments they live in
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| Cultural Landscape | show 🗑
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| Earth System Science | show 🗑
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| Environmental Geography | show 🗑
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| show | The head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C.; he was one of the first cartographers. Performed a remarkably accurate computation of the earth's circumfrence. He is also credited with coining the term geography
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| Fertile Cresent | show 🗑
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| Geographical Information Systems | show 🗑
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| show | A set of satellites used to help determine location andywhere on the earth's surface with a portable electronic device
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| show | Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place
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| show | Inventor, diplomat, ploitician, and scholar, his classic work, MAN AND NATURE, OR PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION, provided the first descriptions of the extent to which natural systems ha been impacted by human actions
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| show | The physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activities
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| Nomothetic | show 🗑
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| W.D. Pattison | show 🗑
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| show | The realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of the earth's surface
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| show | Roman geographer-astronomer and author of GUIDE TO GEOGRAPHY which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude
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| show | Data associated with a more humanistic approach to geography. often collected through interviews, empirical observations, or the interpretation of texts, artwork, old maps, and other archives
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| Quantiative Data | show 🗑
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| show | A period in Human Geography asociated with the wide-spread adoption of mathematical models and statistical techniques
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| Region | show 🗑
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| show | The study of geograohic regions
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| show | Observation and mathematical measurement of the earth's surface using aircraft and satellites. The sensors include both photographic images, thermal images, multispectral scanners, and radar images
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| show | Geographer from the University of California at Berkeley who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results from interaction between humans and the physical environment.
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| Sense of Place | show 🗑
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| Spatial Perspective | show 🗑
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| show | The concept of using the earth's resources in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing the earth's ability to provide for future generations
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| show | The study of the earth's integrated systems as a whole, instead of focusing on particular phenomena in a single place
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| show | Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a Geographical Information System to understand and analyze a spatial relationship
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| Absolute Location | show 🗑
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| show | The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place
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| Azimuthal Projection | show 🗑
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| Breaking point | show 🗑
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| Cartograms | show 🗑
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| show | A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area
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| show | An image of a portion of the earth's surface that an individual creates in his or her mind.
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| Complementarity | show 🗑
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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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| Contagious Diffusion | show 🗑
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| Coordinate System | show 🗑
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| Distance Decay Effect | show 🗑
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| Dot maps | show 🗑
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| show | The spread of ideas, innovation, fashion, or other phenomena to surrounding areas through contact and exchange
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| Friction of Distance | show 🗑
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| Fuller Projection | show 🗑
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| show | The actual shape of the earth, which is rough and obulate, or slightly squashed
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| show | A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other
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| Hazards | show 🗑
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| Hierarchial Diffusion | show 🗑
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| International Date Line | show 🗑
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| Intervening Opportunities | show 🗑
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| show | Map line that connects point of equal or very similar values
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| show | A relatively small ratio between map units and ground units. Higher resolution
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| show | The angular distance north or south of the equator defined by lines of latitude or parallels
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| Law of Retail Gravitation | show 🗑
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| Location Charts | show 🗑
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| show | The angular distance east or west of the equator. Meridians
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| Map Projection | show 🗑
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| show | A true conformal cylindrical map projection. Useful for navigation because it maintains accurate direction
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| Meridian | show 🗑
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| Parallel | show 🗑
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| Peters Map Projection | show 🗑
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| show | A map that displays individual preferences for certain places
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| Prime Meridian | show 🗑
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| show | A thematic map in which the size of a chosen symbol indicates the relative magnitude of some statistical value for a given geographical location
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| Reference Map | show 🗑
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| Relaive Distance | show 🗑
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| Relative location | show 🗑
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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| Resolution | show 🗑
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| show | Projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors
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| show | The ratio between the size of an area on a map and the actual size of that same area on the earth's surface
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| Site | show 🗑
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| show | The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area and the connections and interdependencies within that system
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| Small-scale | show 🗑
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| Spatial Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | When a trait of one culture prompts invention or innovation in another
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| show | A type of map that displys one or more variables within a specific area
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| show | The idea that distance between some places is acutally shrinking as technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction between those places
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| Topographic maps | show 🗑
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| Topological space | show 🗑
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| Transferability | show 🗑
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| Visualization | show 🗑
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| show | A model used in population geography that describes the ages and number of males and females within a given population; also called a population pyramid
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| show | The number of people living in a given unit area
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| Baby Boom | show 🗑
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| show | Period during the 1960s and 70s when fertility rates dropped as large numbers of women sought higher levels of education and more competetive jobs causing them to marry later in life
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| show | The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can sustainably support
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| show | Small county subdivisions delineated by the US Census Bureau as areas of relatively uniform population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions
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| show | The migration event in which individuals follow the migratory path of preceding friends or family members to an existing community
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| show | Number of deaths per thousand children within the first five years of life
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| show | A population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and consequently treated as a statistical unit
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| Crude Birth Rate | show 🗑
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| show | The number of deaths per year per 1000 people
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| show | An equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population within a particular time period taking into account both natural increase and net migration
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| show | A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time
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| Demography | show 🗑
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| show | The ratio of the number of people who are either too old or too young to provide for themselves to the number of people who must support them through their own labor
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| Doubling Time | show 🗑
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| Emigration | show 🗑
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| Exponential Growth | show 🗑
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| show | The migration event in which individual's are forced to leave a country against their will
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| Generation X | show 🗑
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| show | The process of individuals moving into a new country with the intention of remaining there
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| Internal Migration | show 🗑
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| show | Any forces or factors that may limit human migration
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| Life expectancy | show 🗑
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| Thomas Malthus | show 🗑
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| Maternal Mortality Rate | show 🗑
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| Migration | show 🗑
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| Natural Increase Rate | show 🗑
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| show | Advocacy of popluation control programs to ensure enoguh resources for current and future populations
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| Overpopulation | show 🗑
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| show | A ratio of human population to the area or cropland used in less developed countries dominated by subsistence agricultre
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| show | A measurement of the number of persons per unit land area
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| Population Geography | show 🗑
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| show | A model used in population geography to show the average age and sex distribution of a population
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| Pull Factors | show 🗑
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| Push Factors | show 🗑
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| Refugees | show 🗑
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| Rust Belt | show 🗑
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| show | US reguion mostly conprised of southeastern and southwestern states which had grown more dramatically since WWII
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| Total Fertility Rate | show 🗑
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| Voluntary Migration | show 🗑
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| show | Proposal to end population growth through a variety of official and nongovernmental family planning programs
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| Acculturation | show 🗑
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| Animism | show 🗑
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| show | System of belief that seeks to explain ultimate realities for all people such as the nature of suffering and the path toward self-realization
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| Caste System | show 🗑
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| Christianity | show 🗑
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| Creole | show 🗑
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| show | The group of traits that define a particular culture
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| Cultural Extinction | show 🗑
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| show | The subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space
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| show | Locations on the earth's surface where specific cultures first arose
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| show | The dominance of one culture over another
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| show | The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture such as language religion ethinicity social institutions and aspects of popular culture
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| show | A total way of life held in common by a group of people including learned features such as language ideology behavior technology and government
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| Custom | show 🗑
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| Denomination | show 🗑
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| Dialect | show 🗑
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| show | People who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity
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| show | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions
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| show | A constructed international auxiliary language incorporating aspects of numerous linguistic traditions to create a universal means of communication
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| show | The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethinicity from a country or region either by forced migration or genocide
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| show | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
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| Ethinic Religion | show 🗑
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| show | Refers to a group of people who share a common identity
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| show | Religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system
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| show | Refers to constellation of cultural practices that form the sights. smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional societies in which they developed
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| show | The strict adherence to a particular doctrine
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| show | A premediated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group
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| show | A segregated ethnic area within a city
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| Global Religion | show 🗑
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| Hinduism | show 🗑
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| Islam | show 🗑
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| show | Geographical boundary lines where different linguistic features meet
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| show | The first major monotheistic religion. It is based on a sense of ethnic identity and its adherents tend to form tight-knit communities wherever they live
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| show | This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people
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| Language family | show 🗑
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| show | A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
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| show | an extermely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other more complex languages usually used for quick and efficent communication
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| Literacy | show 🗑
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| Local religion | show 🗑
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| show | A person of a particular faith that travels in order to recruit new members into the faith represented
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| show | The woship of only one God
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| show | Language in which all government business occurs in a country
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| show | Language that may develop when two groups of people with differing language meet
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| Pilgrimage | show 🗑
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| Polytheism | show 🗑
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| show | Dynamic culture based in large heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individulaism, innovation, and change.
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| show | A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns, or genetically inherited characteristics
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| show | Any of the languages derived from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, and Romanian
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| Shaman | show 🗑
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| show | Language area that spreads through most the Southeast Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese Japanese Burmese Tibetan and Korean
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| show | Traditions that borrow from both the past and present
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| show | Place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements terrain features and streams
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| show | Religion that seeks to unite people from all over the globe
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