AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocabulary

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What is the movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities?

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Urbanization

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An ethnic, polytheistic religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shinto

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Hinduism

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What is architecture characterised by the use of local materials and knowledge, usually without the supervision of professional architects?

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Traditional architecture

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What is a type of religion that typically stays in one region?

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Ethnic religion

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Which is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition?

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Ethnicity

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What is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another?

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Cultural relativism

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What is a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history?

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Language family

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What is a landscape that is altered/changed by human activity?

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Cultural landscape

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A particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period.

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Culture

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What is the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact?

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Globalization