Cultural landscapes, language, religion, and cultural diffusion as tested on AP Human Geography.
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- What is cultural diffusion?
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The spread of cultural traits from one place to another through time.- Define hierarchical diffusion.
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Diffusion that spreads from larger cities to progressively smaller cities and villages.- What is contagious diffusion?
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Diffusion that spreads from one place to adjacent places, moving outward like an expanding wave.- Define stimulus diffusion.
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Diffusion in which a cultural trait is modified by the receiving culture to suit local needs.- What is relocation diffusion?
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Diffusion that occurs when people move from one place to another, taking cultural traits with them.- What is a cultural hearth?
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A place where cultural traits originate and from which they diffuse outward.- Define cultural region.
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An area unified by a shared cultural trait, practice, or characteristic.- What is acculturation?
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The process by which individuals adopt traits of another culture while retaining their original culture.- Define assimilation.
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The process by which individuals from one culture completely adopt traits of another culture and abandon their original culture.- What is ethnicity?
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A group of people sharing a common cultural heritage, ancestry, language, or religion.- Define a language family.
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A group of languages derived from a common ancestral language.- What is a lingua franca?
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A language adopted for communication between people who do not share a native language.- Define a pidgin language.
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A simplified language with basic vocabulary and grammar used for trade between speakers of different languages.- What is a creole language?
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A pidgin language that has become the native language of a community.- What is an isogloss?
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A geographic boundary line marking the limit of a linguistic feature, such as dialect pronunciation.
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