AP Human Geography: Culture Flashcards

A geographic area that includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with interactions between nature and human behavior.

The notion that successful societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.

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<p>A region that is related ethically or historically to one country, but is ruled by another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion aimed at a national group living in a neighboring country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Means of communicating by sounds and/or symbols.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Terms or expressions borrowed from the English language used by the French.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The place of origin of a major culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A society in an advanced stage of development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A period of time after WWII where nuclear threats and confrontation were high between the USA and USSR, rather than actual warfare.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The language or vocabulary of a specific group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attempt by one country to establish settlements and impose its economic and cultural principles in another country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One main power controlling everything else.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Policy of extending rule over other countries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process of division of a region/state into smaller regions/states that are often hostile with each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Characters that indicate the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds to say it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Present-day Iraq.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Site of several ancient civilizations in present day Mexico and Central America.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Muslim empire that controlled southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and most of North Africa between the 16th and 18th centuries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Method of decision making in multi-national political communities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Population size an environment can sustain or take care of.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spread of ideas, knowledge, or innovation from its origin to other cultures and areas where they are adopted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An idea or innovation developed in a source area, remains strong there, and also spreads.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of diffusion where nearly all adjacent individuals are affected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to or adopting what is being diffused.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An idea or innovation is not immediately adopted, yet does have an impact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Requires the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea or innovation loses its strength or population at the site of the origin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process in which one culture substantially changes through interaction with another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two-way exchange of culture traits between societies in close contact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When two cultures come together and create a brand new culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The further from its source or the longer it takes, the less likely the innovation is to be adopted.</p> Signup and view all the answers