Exam 2 Flashcards

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What criteria do most cultures define race.

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Culture and ethnicity

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What is the cultures assumption about the differences between men and women.

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Gender

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Slaves in the US were counted as How Much of a person. With regards to representation of the House of Reps.

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3/5 of a white person

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What is the cause of residential segregation in the US today.

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Class ? Double check

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In the 2000 census, what % percentage of the US population claimed two or more races.

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2.4 but it says 2010. Table 5.1

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How do gangs in the US and Ireland mark their territories ?

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graffiti and murals

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What is Russia’s position on religion today?

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Orthodox Christianity, Russian Orthodoxy

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About how old is the Hindi religion.

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Over 4000 years ago. One of the oldest religions.

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What are judges in Pakistan required to wear

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beard

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In what country did Buddhism begin.

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India

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How did Sikhism come about

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confrontation of Hinduism and other faiths led to a compromise religion; Sikhism.

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In what country did Confucianism begin

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China

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What country is Shia Islam most dominate

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Iran. Azerbaijan, southeastern Iraq, western Afghanistan and Pakistan

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What was the significance of the Peace of Westphalia

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it marks the beginning of the modern state system in 1648. It created the Holy Roman Empire.

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Where did the rise of the modern state idea begin

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Ancient Rome and Greece

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16
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What is Kurdistan

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a stateless nation that covers 6 states

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What is Yugoslavia a prime example of

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a country thrown together and left with diversity. chaotic aftermath of WWI

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Which country did not join the League of Nations and helped use it’s downfall.

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USA

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The Marshall, post WW II, major function was to revive what region

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Europe

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In what region did urbanization begin

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Egypt, Mesopotamia and India

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At its height in the ancient world, what was the population of Athens

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250,000

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What helped Rome to grow

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The Romans beat the Greeks and took their land. They created cities and roads.

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Where did the manufacturing city begin

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Great Britain

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What is the core of city called.

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? Central Business District - within the region or state

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What are the modern ideas of development relate to

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meaning that something is still growing in technology, production and socioeconomic.

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What does the word development imply

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progress

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What is the organization that is headed by an American, headquarter in Washington DC and charged with combating poverty in the third world called.

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World Bank

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Who are most likely to be victims of malaria

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children under 5

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Who owns most of the hotels in peripheral countries

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? multinational corporations

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What part of Africa is either arid or semi arid leading to desertification.

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Subsahara Africa 2/3 of the country

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What were the events that occurred in the last 50yrs to make English an international language? What makes it the international language now? What makes English the liqua Franca? Advantages of speaking English… What do critics say.

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5 reasons English became the lingua Franca: Commerce, trade, higher education, travel, internet. Events: as other nations economy grow they use English as the general language for commerce. US is the strongest country politically and therefore diplomas learn to speak English to get the message across. Elite send kids to US to learn English and bring home to teach. Americans travel so other countries needed to learn English for tourism. The internet started out strictly English. All these things make English an international language, a lingua franca. But some think not so cuz mandarin is spoken by more than 3xs the # of ppl. Also many who claim to speak English are speaking pidgin, mixture of two or more language w memorized phrases.

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What is Esperanto? What was its purpose and why did it fall? What about language can pull people together people and isolate those who can’t speak it? Use Amish or Fr. Canadian as a example..how do they use dialect to keep them separate?

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It’s a made up language by LL Zamenhofin in 1905. He wanted ppl to be together as a country after the wars and thought a language would bring them together.cuz language is attached to culture and ppl unwilling to give up there language it failed. Only 100k spoke it. Amish do not speak English around Non Amish as a way of keeping us isolated from their world. They use Penn Dutch when they want to communicate to their own kind.

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Where do you find alphabets? Where ideograms? How does each form work? How are they different? Advantages and disadvantages of each.

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Western Hemisphere. Greeks started the Roman Alphabet. Eastern hemisphere Chinese created ideograms. Alphabet-ea letter represents a sound, phonics. But most words cannot be said phonetically and must be memorized. Adv-easy to teach, but some letters cover several sounds. Spelling and pronunciation is a problem. Ideograms- each picture represents a thought or idea. Teach by memorizing the picture in an order. Gives beauty to language. But each picture can have more than one meaning.

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What is animism and who practices it? How do they view the world and their place in it? How do they view morality? What is right and wrong? How do they explain why bad things happen to ppl?

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The belief that all things animate and inanimate have a spirit and a soul. First religion. Foraging societies practiced it. all things demand respect and disrespect is the cuz of mischief and misfortune. Every action there is a reaction-consequences. Animist fear most is chaos, it leads to disaster, without control there is no order. They believe in deities, and if u upset something than anything can come back and strike you anytime. They tried to make sure they never upset anything so the world would not end.

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What are he major Western Religions? How do they begin with a tutelary folk religions and then become a folk and two universal religions? How do they deal with morality? Differences and similarities? What is their perception of God?

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Started as Judaism, a folk religion, and broke off into Christianity and Islam. Began with a tutelary divinities ( god of place). Each village had its own god and was to protect them from others. For the Hebrews followed Abraham. Ten commandment given to Moses making it a moral religion. Folk religions are religions of your culture. Jewish=Jews. People started to follow Jesus, a prophet who said he could talk to god. They transform into Christianity, a universal religion. Anyone can join and ethnicity doesn’t matter. The second wife broke off into the dessert and her descendant, Mohammed goes into a cave and creates the Koran. His version of the commandments, the sacred stone. He unites all Arab tribes under one religion names Islam. 2nd universal religion. Bible you read, Koran you recite. 10 commandments - 5 pillars. God is 3O’s. Omni potent, omnipresent, omniscient.

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What is ethnicity and how does it help to define ppl? What is nationalism? How is it different from ethnicity? What causes difficulties between the two? Example? What is racism? How is it different from ethnocentrism?

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Is the culture of a group of ppl. History and their beliefs. Nationalism is the same except it’s tied to a piece of land. Like I am Italian. Ppl foot to call land there own.

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What are the major eastern religions and how did they develop. Which are folk religions. How did Confucianism play a part. How do they deal with morality. Perception of god.

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Hinduism-oldest religion, animistic in origin, has many gods. Is a folk religion.
Buddhism-developed by protests. Prince Siddartha saw poverty, illness and death and needed to find himself. He does and they call him Buddha. Became a universal religion.
Confucianism-began by a teacher named Kung Fu Tze who set up a moral social code that all should follow just because.
Asia has folk/ethnic religions. China- Taoism. Japan - Shinto.
Morality in the East- they are not moral religions, more concernd with getting through life. They used Confucianism as there morality.
There is no god..