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Conquistadores
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Sixteenth-century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas
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from Colorado to Argentina
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Moorish
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a combination of Spanish and North African architecture
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Fortification
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a defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a place against attack
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You haven’t studied these terms yet!
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Select these 58
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Monasteries
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Religious community where Christians called monks gave up their possessions and devoted their lives to serving God.
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Architecture
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the art of designing buildings
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opaque
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impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
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Diffusion
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The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
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Missionary
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An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.
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Universalizing Religion
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A religion that attempts to appeal to all people
not just those living in a particular location.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
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relocation diffusion
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The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
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Agglomeration
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A process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. The term often refers to manufacturing plants and businesses that benefit from close proximity because they share skilled-labor pools and technological and financial amenities.
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Assimilation
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the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another (many times forced)
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Hearth
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The region from which innovative ideas originate
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Cultural Trait
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an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture
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sequent occupance
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the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place
each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
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Trade port
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A city along the ocean where boats come in and out filled with merchandise.
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Ethnicities
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ethnic groups that share a common culture or ancestry
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Infilling
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new development that is placed on vacant or undeveloped land within an existing community
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Greenbelt
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A ring of land maintained as parks
agriculture
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Suburbanization
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The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.
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multi-ethnic
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A state that contains more than one ethnicity
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ethnic language
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living language connected specifically to one ethnic group
spoken primarily by that ethnic group in their home region(s)... may also be a nationalist language if ethnic group has their own country... ex: Icelandic
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agriculture
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farming
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suburban sprawl
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- spread of suburbs away from the core city
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Redlining
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A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
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sense of place
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The feeling that an area has a distinct and meaningful character
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cultural relativism
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not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
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Acculturation
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The adoption of cultural traits
such as language
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cultural diffusion
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The spread of ideas
customs
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Ethnocentrism
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Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
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spatial pattern
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pattern that arranges points by location
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Distinctive
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clearly different from others of the same kind
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proximity
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(n.) nearness
closeness
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Secular landscape
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Not having to do with religion
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densely
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Closely packed together
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Political
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relating to government
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Migration
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Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
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Uniculturalism
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Encourages integration
where cultural identities are lost in time
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Contagious Diffusion
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The rapid
widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
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reverse hierarchical diffusion
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diffusion up a hierarchy
such as from a small town to large cities
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Expansion Diffusion
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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.
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pidgin language
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A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca
used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
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lingua franca
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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
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cuisine
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style of cooking
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Composition
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the makeup of something
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Dominant
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most important
powerful
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space-time compression
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The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place
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Segregated
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Ethnically separated
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Enclaves
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Any small and relatively homogenous group or region surrounded by another larger and different group or region
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homogeneous
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of the same kind
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heterogeneous
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(adj.) composed of different kinds
diverse
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Mosque
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A Muslim (Islam) place of worship
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ethnic religion
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A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.
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Sikhism
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religion that blended elements of both Islam and Hinduism
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belief system
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a set of principles or tenets which together form the basis of a religion
philosophy
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Ethos
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credibility
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prejudice
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preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
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Stereotyping
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Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which that person belongs
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Culture traditionally practiced by a small
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popular culture
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Culture found in a large
heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
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