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24 Cards in this Set
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Sacred symbol of Buddhism
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Wheel of the law or wheel of life
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Buddha taught that perfect peace and happiness could be gained by following
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“The Middle Way” and the Noble Eightfold Path.
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Shintoism: once the state religion of
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Japan, and is still widely practiced in the country.
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A wooden gate called a _____ is ththe symbol of Shintoism
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Torii
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Confucianism: stresses
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moral behavior and respect for ancestors and government authority, but does not teach a belief in a god or in life after death.
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Animism: the belief that all things in nature-
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living and non-living-contains god or spirits.
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Language is the essence of
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culture
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Naming place is closely related to
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claiming place
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The central region of Antarctica contains ice sheets over (x miles thick)
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2 miles
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In 1991, 24 nations agreed to ban nuclear tests, military activity and oil and mineral exploration on
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Antarctica
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One way in which geo-linguists often simplify the mapping of languages is by
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grouping them into language families: tonges that are related and share a common ancestor.
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Most cultural groups have their own distinctive form of speech, either a separate language or
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Dialect
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About ______ language and many more dialects are spoken in the world today.
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6,000
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Top 5 Spoken languages in the World:
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chinese(mandarin), spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese
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T/F Although there are thousands of languages and dialects in the world, they can be grouped into a few lingustic families.
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True
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The indo european language family represents around ____ the worlds population.
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half
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Nearly extinct languages account for _ % of the worlds total existing languages.
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6
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Mountain areas are often linguistic shatter belts because
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the rough terrain provides refuge and isolation.
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A dialect is a form of a spoken language peculiar to a region or
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social group.
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Resolute, Canada is the worlds
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coldest place
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Country with the longest Coastline
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Canada
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Most of Canada's people live along the
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Southern Boarder
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The people of Quebec are increasingly a culture island where only
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French
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The Canadian prairie, which extends from Manitoba to central Alberta, is the center of a
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rich wheat belt
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