APHUG Units 3-4

2. A belief system that rejects religion or religious considerations.
4. Family A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language.
6. Force A force that unifies a state (e.g., shared religion or language).
9. The blending of elements from different cultures into a new cultural form.
11. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.
13. A regional variation of a language with differences in pronunciation, spelling, or vocabulary.
15. Religion A religion associated with a particular ethnic group and spatially concentrated.
17. Force A force that divides people and countries.
18. Culture Culture found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits.
19. The fragmentation of a region into smaller, often hostile units.
20. The ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of outside forces.

1. Cultural change from interaction between cultures, with both maintaining distinct traits.
3. Religion A religion that attempts to appeal to all people globally.
5. The manipulation of political boundaries to favor one party or class.
7. When a minority group adopts the culture of a dominant group, losing their original identity.
8. State A country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination.
10. Landscape The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.
12. A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
14. Judging another culture by the standards of one’s own.
16. Culture Culture traditionally practiced by small, isolated, homogeneous groups.