Vocabulary
Chap 12
Culture
Political
100
Literacy
What is The ability to read and write
100
2 benefits that LDC sercive providers offer financial services.
low taxes privacy laws
100
What is it called when more people dress the same worldwide more than how they are culturally?
Globalization
100
What are modern examples of nation states?
China and Iceland
200
Lingua Franca
What is An extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other, more complex languages usually used for quick and efficient communication.
200
identify clustered settlements
everyone lives in a small area where farms are close
200
What is the difference between habit and custom
A habit is performed by a certain person and a custom is performed by a group.
200
What is the largest ethnic group in China and the world?
The Han
300
Dialect
What is Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from the parent form.
300
Define city state.
a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland
300
Anything created by humans which give information about the culture of its creator
Artifact
300
What does the Heartland theory say?
If you control Asia and europe, you can rule the world
400
Animism
What is Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, doctrine in which the world is seen as being infused with spiritual and even supernatural powers.
400
Identify basic economic activities.
exported goods, mining, retail, construction
400
What is a behavior restricted by social custom?
Taboo
400
What are the 3 types of cultural boundaries
geometric, religious, linguistic
500
Acculturation
What is The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.
500
Social heterogeneity means that you feel
Lonley and Isolated in a crowd
500
Contemporary diffusion of sports shows spread of
Popular Culture
500
What is the problem with multinational states
There are a lot of centrifugal forces present that could lead to devolution and maybe dissolution