World Cultures semester
Terms
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- five themes of geography
- location, place, movement, human environment interactions, region
- salt flat
- when all the water in a lake is evaporated and all that is left is chemical salt
- rwandan tribes
- hulu, tutsi, and twa; study notes
- customs
- folkways, mores, traditions, and laws
- coloreds
- racial mixing; limited rightsand education, can vote,
- apartheid
- a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites
- cultural trait
- a behavioral characteristic of a people, such as language, skill, or custom, passed from one generation to another
- diffusion
- spreading of ideas, inventions and patterns
- norm
- standards that society sets and accepts
- ethnocentrism
- belief that one's ethnic, religious, or political groups are superior to others
- race
- physical and genetic makeup
- culture
- all the ways of life that the society creates
- PLO
- Palestine Liberation Organization- is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."[
- mores
- necessary to the welfare of society, what they recognize as o.k. customs
- state
- an idependent unit that occupies a specific territory and has full control of it's internal and external affairs
- cartographer
- map maker
- topography
- representaion of natural and man made features on the earth
- boer
- dutch(afrikaner) make up the first class w/
- communism
- form of government where one person is the dictator and everyone one gets the same amount of money for different work
- rub-al-kali
- largest sandy dessert
- israel
- the only jewish state in the world, 1948
- folkways
- rules of ordinary behavior, dress, courtesy, utensils
- society
- people who share a common culture, usually a in a territory
- pull factor
- reasons that someone would want to come to a country
- oasis
- a place where water makes surface in the dessert and is very fertile
- thematic map
- shows climate, vegetation, natural resources, population density, economic activity, historical trends, movement, etc...
- traditions
- customary acts, events, holidays handed down for generations
- human right
- the rights that every human is born with
- canopy
- the dense mass of leaves and branches that form the top layer of the rain forest
- anglo
- british(English) make up the first class w/
- absolute location
- the exact coordinates of a spot, longitude and latitude
- blacks
- indiginous tribe members; suitable only as slaves no educations, next to no rights, ruled by a white person
- indians/asian
- step above blacks; indentured servants
- culture
- a collection of shared agreements that shape the way people think, feel, and act.
- laws
- deliberately created and enforced by officials, strengthen norms rules
- map projection
- a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude