Ap Flashcards

(31 cards)

1
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What are two basic groups of material culture?

A

Folk and popular culture

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2
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In which major religion is eating cow a taboo

A

Hinduism

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3
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Who invented lacrosse

A

Native Americans

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4
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Why do people in Thailand sleep with there heads faceing east?

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To avoid evil the direction of death

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5
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What is dowry?

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A gift from the family of the bride to a family of the groom (husband)

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6
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How many people speak English fluently?

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1/2 billion

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7
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What is the most spoken language?

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Mandarin (china)

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8
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How many people speak an Indo-European language?

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3.5 billion

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9
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What separates British English from American English?

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Pronunciation and spelling and vocabulary

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10
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Name the four major Indo European language branches

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Romance, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian

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What is the most spoken language under the Indo Iranian branch and where is it most spoken?

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Hindi in India

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12
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What is the largest lingua franca in the formal Soviet union

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Rushing

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13
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What original language did the Romans languages come from?

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Latin

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What to European romance languages are spoken by 90% of speakers outside of your?

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Spanish and Portuguese

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Explain how Spanish and Portuguese became the lingua franca in Latin America.

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These two languages diffuse to the Americas by Spanish and Portuguese exploration

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16
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How many languages are spoken in Nigeria

17
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Name three lingua franca’s and identify a word that language is dominance

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:English (North America west
:Europe),Arabic (the Middle East)
:Manderin (China)
:Russian (former Soviet states)

18
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No population of the world isChristian

19
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Belgium is divided into what two regions what is the language of each region?

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Northern bell gym is considered the region of Flanders and they speak Flemish (Dutch) seven Belgium is considered a division of Wallonia and they speak French

20
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What percent of Christians is Roman Catholic

21
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What percent of Christian is producing know

22
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What percent of Christian is orthodox

23
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What percentage of the population in the western hemisphere is Christian

24
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What’s the percentage of Christian and Latin America is Catholic?

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Where are Catholics clustered in Anglo America?
Southwestern at Northwestern USA in Canadian province of Quebec
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What are the three largest protestant denominations in the North America
Baptist,Methodist, Pentecostal
27
What percent of the worlds population follow Islam
Roughly 19 to 20% (1.3 billion)
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what are the two main branches of Islam
Sunni and Shiite
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What percent of muslims is Sunni?
Roughly 83%
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What is the oldest monotheistic religion
Judaism (3000)
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How many Jews are on this planet and where are they located
Roughly 14,000,000 6 million USA 4 million in Israel into million in the formal Soviet union and 2 million at elsewhere