a world religion or philosophy based on the teaching of the Buddha and holding that a state of enlightenment can be attained by suppressing worldly desire.the fusion of originally different inflected forms.the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.smaller landscapes that symbolize a bigger area or category.A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.An area in which people have many shared culture traits.The physical manifestations of human activities.a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages.a common language used by speakers of different languages.group of languages with more commonality than a language family.reformers who protested some practices of the catholic church.A famous geographer that wrote about cultural diffusion about the same time as Carl sauer.

Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact.an awareness of being a part of a group of people living in a culture region.the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life.is the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behaviora.l.Culturalhearths Heartland, source area, innovation center, place of origin of a major culture The subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space.Human creations, such as values, norms, knowledge, etc.Observable actions of responses of humans or animals.Many languages spoken by a small group of people.Belief that objects, such as plants have spirits.The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.The acquisition of two languages that use different speech sounds, vocabularies, and grammatical rules.Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.the process by which one generation passes culture to the next.the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features.A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.The Buddhist yana whose path is the transformation of neurotically confused emotions into their enlightened equivalents.the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other.This branch of Christianity arose because of the Roman's split by Diocletian.the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language.derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites.A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban.a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India.

the spread of cultural elements from one society to another.

The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine empire.The adoption of cultural traits, such as language.They don't believe in angels or devils.an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans.A culture that evolved along the coast of northern Peru around 2000 years ago, and built architecturally impressive sites, made decorative pottery, and created ornamental objects out of gold, silver, and copper.In southern Arizona and New Mexico, a culture very similar to the Hohokam, and is known for their detailed black-on-white pottery bowls.Civilization on the island of Crete, began around 4,200 years ago.A warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. A monumental structure in Mohenjo-Daro composed of mud bricks, is nearly 48 feet high and contains public baths, residences, and places for large groups to gather.A circular, semisubterranean structure used for ceremonial purposes among some southwestern agriculturalists.A means of keeping track of trade and tribute by using cotton cords tied with knots to represent counts of items.

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