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Which was the first major world religion founded on the belief in only one god?

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Judaism

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Which is the oldest major world religion?

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Hinduism

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Folk culture is defined as what?

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The way of life of a small, isolated community

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What controls folk culture, and what is strongly resisted?

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Tradition; change

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Aspects of folk culture are:

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  • Folk lore (oral traditions: genealogy & creation stories)
  • Folk medicine
  • Folk art/music/dance
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No pure folk cultures exist in the US due to:

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  1. Mass communication
  2. Industrialisation (mass production)
  3. Urbanisation (mass living)
  4. Mobility
  5. Public education
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“Urban-based mass population” is known as what?

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Popular culture

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Popular culture abandons old ______ and conforms to new ones.

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Trends

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In popular culture, is self-sufficiency decreased or increased?

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Decreased

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Popular culture is more dependent on what industry?

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Service industry

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What sort of technology is increased because of popular culture?

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Industrial technology

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Mass production leads to __________.

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Uniformity

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Popular culture began, in general, with the invention of what?

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Printing press

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Uniformity is perpetuated by what?

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  1. The franchise

2. Commercial advertising

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Cultures make a distinct ________ on the landscape as they fashion the raw material of ________________________.

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Impression; the natural landscape

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Certain landmarks take on special significance in the __________, _______________, & ____________ of a country.

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Identity; emotions; politics

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Why is there a distinct difference in the layout of fields and cities as one flies over North America?

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They stem from different land survey systems.

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Systems for claiming and allotting land was the task of what?

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A charter group

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What was the land division system brought to the US from England?

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The metes-and-bounds system

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Which group established land division policies in the Atlantic Seaboard colonies?

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The English

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What was the metes-and-bounds systems based on?

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The layout of the land, including landform or water features, trees, and rocks.

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What are topographic road patterns?

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Routes controlled by the contours of the land.

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The Public Land Survey System (Township and Range) was adopted in what year?

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How many acres were given as free land under the Homestead Act?

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The French tradition of public land survey is known as the ___________ system
Long-lot
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Which other country's colonists introduced a similar style of French land survey in New Mexico & Texas?
Spain
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In much of the world, farmers historically lived in small, agricultural villages creating a ________________.
Clustered, rural population
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The French & Hispanic long lots encouraged _____________________________ along river or road frontage.
The alignment of closely-spaced farmsteads
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The New England villages had a distinctive pattern of ________ _______ & __________ __________.
Nucleated agricultural villages; fragmented farms
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The pattern of streets, blocks, and lots exerts a major influence on the ________ & _________ ________ of urban settlements.
Feel; social life
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How long ago, and by whom, was the rectangular grid system devised?
The Greeks; 5th century BC
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The best known rectangular street grid is in what city?
Manhattan / New York
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Language is defined as what?
Communication of ideas, attitudes, or intent through signs, sounds, or gestures
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There are how many languages & dialects estimated worldwide? Sub-Saharan Africa? Europe? Papua New Guinea?
6000 1500 200 800
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In the past, there were many thousands of languages due to what two factors?
Isolation & minimal interaction
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The language spoken by the most people as a first language is what?
Mandarin
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The language spoken by the most people globally is what?
English
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Language development consists of what two actions?
Borrowing: taking words from other languages Coinage: creating completely new words or phrases
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Language has spatial variations due to:
Diffusion, isolation, time-distance decay
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Dialect is made up of differences in what?
Pronunciation; vocabulary; speed; rhythm.
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Dialects serve as a __________. Dialects denote _______________. Dialects denote _______________. Dialects may denote ______________.
Territorial identity Insiders vs. outsiders Social class Education level
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Accent is defined as what?
Sound of the mother tongue/first language
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Language diffusion is a result of what two things?
Migration & conquest.
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English has roots in which languages?
German, French, Scandinavian, Latin, Greek
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When two languages are mixed, they create what kind of language? When that language is learned as a first language, it is then called what?
Pidgin; creole
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Toponyms are what?
Place names
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Toponomy is:
The study of place names
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Religion is defined as what?
An organized system of faith or worship with belief in one or more supreme beings
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What is perhaps the strongest aspect of a culture?
Religion
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Development and diffusion of religion is ________.
Spatial
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Religions are what sort of innovations?
Cultural
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Universalizing religions are characterized by what aspects?
Open to all Membership drive, recruitment Symbolic commitment Global
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Ethnic religions are characterized by what aspects?
``` Members only by birth or adoption of lifestyle Strong cultural identification Territorial Does not recruit members (Judaism, Hindu, Shinto) ```
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Tribal religions are characterized by what aspects?
``` Close ties to nature/the environment "Animists" - life exists in all objects "Shaman" Geographically isolated, but changing (Africa, once 100% tribal; now 40% Muslim, 50% Christian, 10% still tribal) ```
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The four varieties of supernatural beliefs are what?
Ritual; contagious magic (an act with something that has come into contact with a person or animal); sequential magic (belief that events occur associated with a sequence or specific number; superstitious); divination (forecasting future events).

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