human geo
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- migration
- A change in residence intended to be permanent.
- Pull factors
- Positive conditions that effectively attract people to new localtions
- Push factors
- Negative conditions that induce people to leave their home and migrate some place new
- nomadism
- Movement among a definite set of places
- transhumance
- A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures
- guest workers
- Legal immigrant who has a work visa
- refugees
- People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country
- quotas
- Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year
- language families
- Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin
- standard language
- the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life
- dialects
- Local or regional characteristics of a language.
- isogloss
- seperate places of diff uses of language
- lingua franca
- tongue spoken in mediterranean ports; common language
- toponyms
- Place name
- monotheistic
- one God
- polytheistic
- many gods
- Universalizing religions
- seeking converts, find it in diff countries
- ethnic religion
- focus on one ethnic group doesnt try to recruit
- Hinduism
- One of the oldest religions in the modern world believes in many gods
- Hinduism's 3 major gods
- Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva
- caste system
- The strict social segregation of people
- Islam
- The youngest of the major world religions, Islam is based on the teachings of Muhammad
- 5 pillars
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1. declaration of faith
2. prayer 5x toward mecca
3. alms giving
4. ramadan - fasting
5. haj - pilgrimage to mecca atleast once in life - koran
- mohammed's disciples wrote muslims follow this; holy book
- Mecca
- cultral hearth - muslims pray to - mohammed was born here
- crusades
- atempt to protect christian routes to the holy land. they slaughtered muslims but were defeated in the end.
- pilgrimage
- Voluntary travel to a sacred site
- Indonesia
- largest muslim population
- Sunni
- leadership is elected
- Shiite
- leadership direct line from mohamed
- ganges
- river considered sacred and holy to muslims they bathe in it.
- Political geography
- A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization.
- state
- A politically organized territory that is recognized by the international community.
- nation
- a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes.
- centripetal
- Forces that tend to unify a country -> <-
- centrifugal
- Forces that tend to divide a country <- ->
- Devolution
- process by which regions within a state demand and gain political strength
- multinational state
- State with more than one nation within its borders
- stateless nations
- Nation that does not have a state (Kurds)
- land locked
- country is surrounded by land