AP Human Geo Unit 4 Vocab and Map Practice

Monthetistic

Belief in one god

Polytheistic

Belief in many Gods

Assimilation

Minority loses distinct cultural traits

Cultural Appropriation

Dominant culture steals element of folk culture and benefits from it

Neolocalism

Seeking out culture and reinvigorating it in response to uncertainty of the modern world

Globalization

Process heightening interactions and deepening relationships across country borders.

Animism

Traditional/indigenous religion where animals/objects are significant

Ethnic Religion

Religion in which people are born into; Don’t actively seek converts

Universalizing Religions

Religion believed to have universal applications in which followers actively seek converts

Cultural Landscape

Visible human imprint on landscape

Placelessness

The loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape; one place looks like the next

Reterritorialization

Twist parts of culture that is applicable to their culture and make it into their own

Commodification

People profiting off of others culture

Standard Language

Variant of language that is promoted as a norm in a country; exp. In their Schools, media, government

Dialect

Variants of standard language along regional/ethnic lines

Isogloss

Geographic boundary where language features occur

Creolized Language

A Language that began as a combination of 2+ languages, but later adopted by people

Language divergence

New languages eventually formed from one language

Fundamentalism

A strict adherence to a basic set of principles, often religious

Secularism

Rejection of religion

Pilgrimage

Purposeful travel to a sacred site for religious reasons

Conquest Theory

Ideas that early speakers of Proto-Indo European left hearth and moved westward on horseback, then overpowered prior inhabitants and began diffusion of Indo-European language

Lingua Franca

Language used as a common means of communication between people with different native languages

Capital of Egypt

Cairo

Capital of Türkiye

Ankara

Israel Capital

Jerusalem

Lebanon capital

Beruit

Syria capital

Damascus

Jordan capital

Amman

Saudi Arabia capital

Riyadh

Iraq capital

Baghdad

Kuwait capital

Kuwait City

Yemen capital

Sana’a

Oman capital

Muscat

United Arab Emirates Capital

Abu Dhabi

Qatar capital

Doha

Bahrain capital

Manama

Iran capital

Tehran