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48 Cards in this Set
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Germanic tribe from southern Denmark
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Angles
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Germanic tribe from northern Denmark
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Jutes
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Germanic tribe from northwestern Germany
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Saxons
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Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life
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Animism
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A large and fundamental division within a division
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Branch
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The third world's major universalizing religion, has nearly 400 million adherents, who are mainly found in China and SE Asia
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Buddhism
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The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law
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Caste
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A monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the New Testament
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Christianity
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A building used for religious services and worship
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Church
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A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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Creolized Language
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A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administration body
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Denomination
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Can appear above or below a letter or in some other position
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Diacritical marks
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronounciation
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Dialect
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the process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
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Diffusion
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A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the product of common heredity and cultural traditions
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Ethnic Religion
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A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used
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Extinct Religion
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A group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity or co-residence
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Family
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Litelral interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
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Fundamentalism
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The region from which innovative ideas originate
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Hearth
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A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
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Hierarchical religion
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The ethnic religion with by far the largest number of followers
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Hinduism
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The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or a concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English
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Ideograms
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Large - Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, and Balto Slavic. Small - Albanian, Armenian, Greek, Celtic
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Indo-european language family
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A monotheistic, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
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Islam
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A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
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Isogloss
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A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
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Isolated languages
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A system of communincation through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
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Language
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family
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Language branch
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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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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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Language group
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The family tree is divided into two parts: The Centum languages, which are the western European languages, and the Satem languages, which are the eastern European and Asian languages
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Language tree/root
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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
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Lingua Franca
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A language that is written as well as spoken
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Literary Tradition
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An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion
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Missionary
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The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god
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Monotheism
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A place of worship for followers of Islam
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Mosque
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Creator of the first American dictionary and grammar books
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Noah Webster
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The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
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Official language
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A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times
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Pagan
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A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages
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Pidgin language
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A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes
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Pilgrimage
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Belief in or worship of more than one god
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Polytheism
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A branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all the languages that descend from Latin
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Romance languages
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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
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Sect
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The processes associated with the production and perception of sounds used in spoken language
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Speech
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The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications
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Standard language
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A structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites
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Temple
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A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
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Universalizing religion
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