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AP Human Geography. Culture

Culture - answer the behaviors and belied characteristics of a particular group

Cultural Landscape - answer a geographic area the includes cultural resources and
natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior

Sequent-Occupancy - answer notion that successful societies leave their cultural
imprints on a place each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

Carl Sauer - answer Argued that cultural landscapes should be the focus of human
geography

Derwent Whittlesey - answer Coined sequent-occupancy

Irredenta - answer a region that is related ethically/historically to one country, but is
ruled by another

Irredentism - answer policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion aimed
at a national group living in a neighboring country

Language - answermeans of communicating by sounds and/or symbols

Franglais - answerterms or expressions borrowed from the English language, A term
used by the French for English words that have entered the French language.

Culture Hearth - answerplace of origin of a major culture

Civilization - answera society in an advanced stage of development

Cold War (1945-1991) - answerperiod of time after WWII where nuclear threats and
confrontation were high between the USA and USSR, rather than actual warfare

Dialect - answerthe language/vocabulary of a specific group of people

Colonialism - answerattempt by one country (usually hegemonic power) to establish
settlements and to impose its economic and cultural principles in another country

Hegemonic Power - answerone main power controlling everything else

Imperialism - answerpolicy of extending rule over other countries

, Balkanization - answerprocess of division of a region/state into smaller regions/states
that are often hostile with each other

Ideograms - answera character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating
the sounds to say it (e.g. - Chinese, Korean, Russian)

Mesopotamia - answersite of several ancient civilizations in present day Iraq

Mesoamerica - answersite of several ancient civilizations in present day Mexico and
Central America

Ottoman Empire - answerMuslim empire that controlled southeastern Europe, the
Middle East, and most of North Africa between the 16th - 18th centuries

Supranationalism - answermethod of decision making in multi-national political
communities

Carrying Capacity - answerpopulation size an environment can sustain/take care of

Cultural (Spatial) Diffusion - answerthe spread of ideas, knowledge or innovation from
its origin to other cultures and areas where they are adopted

Expansion - answeran idea or innovation developed in a source area, remain strong
there, and also spreading (a type of diffusion)

Contagious - answernearly all adjacent individuals are affected (a type of diffusion)

Hierarchical - answermain channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are
susceptible to or adopting what is being diffused (a type of diffusion)

Stimulus - answeran idea of innovation is not immediately adopted, yet does have an
impact (a type of diffusion)

Relocation Diffusion - answerrequires the actual movement of individuals who have
already adopted the idea or innovation and carry it to a new location where they
disseminate it (a type of diffusion)

Migrant - answerthe idea or innovation loses its strength/population at the site of the
origin (a type of diffusion)

Accultration - answerprocess in which one culture substantially changes through
interaction with another (one-way transfer)

Transcultration - answertwo-way exchange of culture traits between societies in close
contact

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