APHUG Final #1
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doingthisforschool on January 23, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Formal Region | A region where one thing is the same everywhere within the boundary (shares one common characteristic) |
| Functional Region | A region focused on its central place (focal point) |
| Vernacular Region | A region that is part of their culutral identity |
| Expansion Diffusion | A pattern that originates in a central place then expands outwards in all directions |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | The pattern originates in a first order location then moves down to second order locations |
| Relocation Diffusion | The pattern begins at a point od origin and then crosses a significant physical barrier |
| Contagious Diffusion | The pattern begins at a point of origin and then moves outward to nearby locations |
| Stimulus Diffusion | A general idea diffuses and then stimulates the creation of new ideas |
| Stage 1 | High birth and death rates low life expectancy low RNI |
| Stage 2 | High birth rates decreasing death rates increasing life expectancy Highest RNI |
| Stage 3 | Lowering birth rates low death rates higher life expectancy lowering RNI |
| Stage 4 | Low birth and death rates highest life expectancy low or negative RNI |
| International Migration | When a group or a single person migrates out of their orignial country |
| Internal Migration | When a group or a single person migrates within the same country |
| What makes up a cultural landscape? | Artifacts, mentifacts, and sociofacts |
| What are the 4 major branches of the Indo-European family? | Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Romantic, and Balto-Slavic |
| Isogloss | The geographic boundry of a linguistic feature |
| Sino-Tibetan | Mandrin |
| Afro-Artisitc | Arabic |
| Austronesian | Vietnames |
| Dravidian | Tamil |
| Altaic | Turkish |
| Niger-Congo | Swanilii |
| Japanese | own language |
| Ravenstine's laws | 1. most migrants go short distances 2. people who migrate long distances tend to go to urban areas |
| Christianity | Distributed all over the world, 2.1 billion people practice it, universal, one god, believers= eternal life |
| Buddhism | Notheast India, about 400 million, universal, living things endure suffering, suffering leads to reincarnation |
| Daoism | China, southeast asia, 400 million, universal and ethnic, Dao means the way, live a balanced and virtuos life |
| Baha'i | Africa, Asia, 8 million, universal, one god, all gods preach from the same god, the whole world is a family |
| Confucianism | South Korea, Austrailia, Germany, Japan, China, 6 million, Ethnic, treat others with respect, learn from past, mistakes aren't sins |
| Hindusim | India, Nepal, I billion, Ethnic, has millions of gods and goddesses, release from rebirth |
| Judaism | U.S. Asia, Europe, Latin America, Ethnic, one god, 10 comandments, god's chosen people to believe in him |
| Islam | Saudi Arabia, Middle East of Africa and Asia, 3.1 billion, one god, give to charity, pray 5x a day, universal |
| Shintoism | Japan, 3 million, parts of buddhism, follows code of cofucianism, scared spirts take forms, ethnic |
| Sikhism | India, 23 million, universal, one god, all humans=equal, reincarted until found peace with god |
| Universal | not rooted in on specific culture or location attempt to appeal to all people can be taught and rejected salvation is indvidual, not communal often have a specific founder or event that religion is based on |
| Ethnic | You are born into it appeals to a specific group in a specific place It closely ties to specific places and historical events Most don't seek converters Group salvation Don't necessarily have a particular founder |
| Artifact | Material or physical things that relfect culture |
| Sociofact | The way in which a culture orginizes itself |
| Mentifact | The ideas, values, beliefs of a culture |
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