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Dodd's SS vocab
2014 First Semester Social Studies Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| history | the written and other recorded events of people |
| nomad | a person with no permanent home who moves from place to place in search of food, water or pasture |
| empire | many territories and people controlled by one government |
| prehistory | before history; the events in the period of time before writing was invented |
| domesticate | to adapt wild plants for human use; to tame wild animals and breed them for human use |
| bazaar | market selling different kinds of goods |
| covenant | a promise made by God; a binding agreement |
| Hammurabi | the king of Babylon from about 1792 to 1750 B.C., creator of the Babylonian Empire |
| absolute power | complete control over someone or something |
| exile | to force someone to live in another place or country |
| nubia | a desert region and ancient kingdom in the Nile River Valley |
| famine | a time when there is so little food that many people starve |
| hieroglyphics | a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others stand for sounds |
| papyrus | an early form of paper made from a reedlike plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta |
| dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family |
| surplus | more of a thing or product than is needed |
| civilization | a society with cities, a central government run by official leaders, and workers who specialize in certain jobs |
| city-state | a city that has its own independent government and often controls much of the surrounding land |
| cataract | a large water or steep rapids |
| artisan | a skilled worker who practices a trade, such as a jewelry making |
| polytheism | the belief in many gods |
| silt | the fine soil found on river bottoms |
| cuneiform | a form of writing that uses wedges and lines |
| monotheism | the belief in one god |
| scribe | in ancient civilizations, a specially trained person who knew how to read, write, and keep records |
| mummy | a dead body preserved in lifelike conditions |
| citadel | a fortress in a city |
| subcontinent | a large landmass that juts out from a continent |
| brahman | a single spiritual power that Hindus believe lives in everything |
| dharma | the religious and moral duties of Hindus |
| Wudi | the Chinese emperor who expanded the Chinese empire under the Han Dynasty |
| Silk Road | a chain of trade routes stretching from China to the Mediterranean Sea |
| Shi Huangdi | the founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor |
| mountain | a geographic feature that often separated civilizations from the rest of the world |
| river | a geographic feature that civilizations were settled around for farming, food, and transportation |
| tolerance | the acceptance of differences |
| loess | a yellow-brown soil |
| nirvana | the lasting peace that Buddhists seeks by giving up selfish desires |
| Confucius | a Chinese philosopher and teacher whose beliefs greatly influenced Chinese life |
| civil service | the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government |
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