Unit 3 Part B Vocab.

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Language Branch

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A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archeological evidence

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Language Family

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A collection of languages related through a common ancestor long before recorded history; no archeological evidence

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Language Group

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A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary

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Agnosticism

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The belief that the existence of God cannot be proven or disproven empirically (with evidence)

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Animism

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The belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have discrete spirit and conscious life

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Atheism

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the belief that God does not exist

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Caste

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The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu person is assigned, according to religious law

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Cosmology/Cosmogony

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A set of beliefs concerning the origin of the universe

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Fundamentalism

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Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or congregation)

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Ghetto

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During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic discrimination