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39 Cards in this Set
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Ashkenazim
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Jews who spoke Yiddish
eastern Europe dominated mirgation during Holocaust |
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Sephardim
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northern Africa and western Europe and Liberia
prominent place in Spanish commerce, educcation and industry |
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Santeria
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"The worship of the saints"
widespread formof African folk Catholicism focuses outwordly on Cahtolic saints, they are really images of Yoruban gods called orishas has sorcery and animal sacrifice believe that theycan cause the event to happen the orishas can possess the believer and may engage in violent or physical behaviors before collapsing |
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Voodoo
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means god or spirit
Haiti and the French Antilles African gods called loas Used by Toussaint L'Ouverture to begin Haitian slavve uprising two cults, houmfort/temple and rada |
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folk Catholicism
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African origin
consist of pre-Conquest ceremonies and experiences viewed as paganistic and Satanic |
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Evangelicos
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Most Charismatic and Fastest growning of all the denominations
Assemblies of God and Church of God Pentecostal faiths 2/3-3/4ths of the Protestant pop Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons some do baptism by immersion and laying on of hands Most value healing |
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Nepotism
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practice of giing jobs and appointments to relatives regardless fo their qualifications
hinders society leads to bribery |
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Amoral familism
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Describes such societies where "right" and "wrong" actions come to be defined only on the basis of whether they result in immediate gain or punishment to the individual and his or her family, rhater than on the impact of the actions of the larger community over time.
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The Amoral Familism 7
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1. No one will work further the interest of the groupr or community except as it is to his or her private advantage to do so
2. Organizations based on selfless ervice and sacrifice will be difficult to establish and maintain 3. the law is wantonly disregarded when there is no fear of punishment 4. Officeholders take bribes whenever possible, the public assumes that officeholders take bribes, whether they do or not 5. Claims of persons declaring their desire to render public good are regarded as fraudulent 6. There is a shortage of both leaders and followers in public affairs because no one will take the initiative and no one will follow, except as it is to their private advantage to do so 7. Support for benficial community projects will come only from those who believe that they will personally gain from them, all others will attempt to defeat the projects |
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Ahijados
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godchildren
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compadrazgo
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Godparent
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Romulo Gallegos
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wrote Dona Barbara
was a passionate novel of the life on the Venezuelan Llanos |
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la dignidad de la persona
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one's individual self-worth or personal dignity
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Enclaves
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The largeholdings
haciendas, estancias, and plantations |
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agroforestry
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Selective planting and harvesting of woody and some non-woody without altering the composition and structure of the forest
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plantation forestry
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planting large areas to a single tree species in the hope of reaping commercially sustainable harvests of wood, food, or industrical productsin rainforest, central and southern Chilie
containe pine, teak, eucalyptus, gmelina, acacia mangium |
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grassification
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the rapid expansion of cattle ranching and the pastures that support it
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Jose Hernandez
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Epic Poem, Matin Fierro
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Ricardo Guiraldes
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Don Segundo Sombra
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Jose Eustasio Rivera
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The Vortex
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Mario Vargus Llosa
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The Green House
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Alejo Carpentiers
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The Lost Steps
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Claude McKay
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Banana Bottom
sensitive account of Caribbean peasant life |
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Euclides da Cunha
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Rebellion in the Backlands
Brazil's Serta |
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J. Lins do Rego
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Plantation Boy
Northeast Sugar |
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Jorge Amado
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Gabriela, Cloves and Cinnamon
Atlantic cacao regions |
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four forms of medieval Catholic devotion
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1. Relics
2. images of saints 3. Virgin Mary worship 4. images of Christ |
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Liberation theology
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Christian and Marxist thought
perceives poverty as a structual rather than as an individual problem, define sin as oppression of the poor by the elites and righteousness as helping the poor overcome their explited condition Basic Ecclesial Community or CEB |
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Old World plants introduced
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wheat, barley, rice olives, grapes, figs, citrus, chickpea, sugar cane, bananas, coconut, mango, coffee, nutmeg, castor bean, cottom, horses, donkeys, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, chickens
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aparceria
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form of sharecropping in old haciendas
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trapiche
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animal-powered grindstone mill
produced from the juice was dark brown and had leaves in it, declining since 1700s, still some exsit that create panela |
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panela
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brown sugar loaf made in trapiche
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trapiches
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water or wind powered mills
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centrales
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corporate-owned steam powered complexes for sugar
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zafra
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dry season harvest period
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Sigatoka leaf blight
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1930s
can be killed with copper sulphate |
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Henry Meiggs Keith
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American railroad bilder contracted by Costa Rica to make a line frommeseta central to Limon
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Cavendish bananas
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more disease resistant than other kinds of bananas, less tasteful
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ejidos
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common grzing land, usually outskirts of a Spanish settlements
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