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unit 3.4 Flashcards

1
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A universalizing religion practice all over the world that worships the Christian trinity and originated in Rome.

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Roman Catholic

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group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family

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Romance Languages

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3
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the place where religious figures and congregations meet to perform religious ceremonies.

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Sacred Place

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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.

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Sect

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The idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on earth, not to accommodate the prescriptions of a deity and promises of a comfortable afterlife.

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Secularism

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The range of traditional beliefs and practices that claim the ability to cure, heal, and cause pain to people.

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Shamanism

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the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim.

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Sharia Law

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the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad.

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Shiite

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A language composed of the Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages

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Sino-Tibetan

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an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words.

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slang

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Languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian) that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago.

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Slavic Language

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the structures and organizations of a culture which influence social behaviour

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Sociofact

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13
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Hispanic Language

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Spanish

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A group of people who speak the same language.

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Speech Community

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The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.

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Standard Language

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A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad

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Sunni

17
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the blending of cultures and ideas from different places.

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Syncretism

18
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The manner in which words are arranged into sentences.

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Syntax

19
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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

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Taboo

20
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The contribution of a location’s distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

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Terrior

21
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an independent state that is completely surrounded by the borders of another state

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The Vatican

22
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an independent state that is completely surrounded by the borders of another state

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The Vatican

23
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the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism’s oldest existing school.

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Theraveda

24
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another word for name, but is specific to locations

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toponym

25
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A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other.

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Trade Language

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Traditional customs, beliefs, or methods are ones that have existed for a long time without changing.

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Traditional Religion

27
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ethnic or regional religious customs under the umbrella of an organized religion, but unique to a specific tribe.

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Tribal Religion

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the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another

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Uniform landscape

29
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offer belief systems that are attractive to the universal population

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Universalizing Religion

30
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the branch of Buddhism practiced primarily in Tibet and Mongolia.

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Vajrayana

31
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An area that people believe exist as part of their cultural identity

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Vernacular

32
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an international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel.

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Zionism

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