APHUGS Flashcards

Indo - European Language Family

Broken down into major languages, Albanian, Celtic, Germanic, and Italian. Has a complex tree encompassing a wide variety of both current and extinct languages

Language

One of the oldest, most geographically diverse, and most complex cultural traits on Earth.

Multiculturalism

The presence of or the support for the presence of multiple and distinct cultural and/ or ethnic groups within a society.

Religion

set of teachings that imply a value system, including some notion of the sacred, and include ideas about the place of human beings in the universe.

Ethnocentrism

to evaluate other cultures against the standards of one’s own, implying superiority of one’s ethnic group.

Ethnic Cleansing

the effort to rid of a country or region of everyone particular ethnicity either through forced migration or genocide

Genocide

premeditated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group.

Cultural Traits

specific customs that are apart of everyday life, including language, religion, ethnicity, and social institutions

Christianity

the world’s most widespread religi

Spread of Islam

it diffused by relocation diffusion to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Exclaves

a bounded territory that is part of a particular state but is separated from it by the territory of a different state

Enclaves

any small and relatively homogenoeus group, region, or state surrounded by another larger and different group, region, or state

Perforated States

a state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state

Devolution

transfer of some central powers to regional or local governments

Challenges to the Modern State

globalization and the rise of transnational cooperations threaten state authority as economic power is increasingly centered on corporations rather than countries.