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AP Human Geography Flashcards: Cultural Patterns

Study Cultural Patterns in AP Human Geography with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

What is the significance of a cultural hearth?

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It is the origin of cultural traits or innovations. These areas generate innovations that spread globally.

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AP Human Geography: Cultural Patterns and Processes

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Secondary source excerpt (about 105 words): Major world religions show clustered spatial patterns shaped by historical origins, diffusion routes, and later state policies. Christianity has multiple major concentrations, including much of the Americas and parts of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting colonial-era diffusion and later demographic change. Islam forms a large contiguous zone from North Africa through Southwest and South Asia, with additional concentrations in Southeast Asia. Hinduism is strongly concentrated in India and Nepal, while Buddhism is prominent in parts of East and Southeast Asia. These patterns overlap in many places, producing religiously mixed regions rather than perfectly separated blocks. Which religion is most strongly concentrated in a single core area centered on India?
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