AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocabulary

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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 a characteristic of human action that's acquired by people socially and transmitted via various modes of communication?

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Culture trait

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What is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings?

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Architecture

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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 the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture?

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Ethnocentrism

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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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What is something that is relating to language or linguistics?

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Linguistic

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What is the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape?

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Sequent occupancy

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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 style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?

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Postmodern Architecture