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study guide #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hunter gatherer | a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals |
| clan | a group of people descended from a common ancestor |
| nomad | a member of a group that has no permanant home wandering from place to place |
| domesticate | the taming of animals for animal use |
| artifact | a human made object such as a tool |
| fossil | a dead organism found underground |
| fertile cresent | an arc of rich land |
| irrigation | the storage of water |
| centralized government | a goverment in which power is concentrated in a central authoirity to which local goverment are subject |
| dynasties | a series of rulers |
| Hammurabi's Code | a well preserved anicent code |
| pharaoh | a king of ancient egypt considered a god as well as a polictical and military leader |
| ten commandments | the devine rules of conduct given by god to moses from mount sinai |
| monotheistic | belief in one god |
| polytheistic | belief in many gods |
| diaspora | the dispersal of the jews from their homeland in judea |
| exile | the state of being barred from one natives country |
| torah | the first five books of the hebrew bible |
| cuneiform | a system of writing with symbols wedged shaped |
| hieroglyphics | an ancient egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to respresent ideas and sounds |
| pictographs | graphs with pictures |
| bureucracy | a system of department and agenies formed to carry out the work of goverment |
| cyrus | king of persian empire |
| royal road | a road in the perian empire streching over 1600 miles from susa in persia to sardis in antolia |
| aryan | an indo european poeple who about 1500 bc began to migrate into the indian subcontinent |
| caste system | one of the four classes of people in the social system |
| gupta empire | the second in india founded by chandera gupta |
| migration | the act of moving from one place to settle in another |
| mauryan empire | the first empire in india founded chandragupta maurya in 321 bc |
| religious toleration | a recogotion of poeple right to hold diffiring religous belifs |
| brahma | a hindu god considerd he created of the world |
| enlightenment | in buddism a state of perfect wisdom in which one understands basic truts about the universe |
| karma | good and bad deeds |
| reincarnation | a soul is reborn |
| shiva | a hindu god the destroyer of the world |
| vishnu | a hindu god the presever of the world |
| eightfold path | tuaght by the budda the path must follow to achieve |
| four noble truths | the four basic belifs that form the foundation of buddism |
| nirvana | selfisness and pian |
| ancestor worship | worship of ancestors |
| filial piety | respect for parents |
| mandate of heaven | a tridition of chimnease philosipcla concept concerning the legimacty of rulers |
| porcelain | a white verified translusent ceramic |
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