History vocab 1-6
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| 210098895 | Agrarian | relating to rural matters | 0 | |
| 210098896 | Agriculturists | Generate their own foods from planting | 1 | |
| 210098897 | Archaeology | the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | 2 | |
| 210098898 | Aryans | Nomadic warriors from Central Asia who migrated into India around 1500 BCE. They are responsible for many aspects of current Indian culture including their language, sacred texts called the Vedas, and a system of government that later evolved into the caste system. | 3 | |
| 210098899 | Asceticism | the idea of self denial, self sacrifice, even self mutilation that was done to communicate with the gods and began to take the place of sacrifice in ancient India | 4 | |
| 210098900 | Austronesian | people who as early 2000 B.C.E. began to explore and settle islands of pacific ocean basin | 5 | |
| 210098901 | Bureaucracy | a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 6 | |
| 210098902 | Brahman | a single spiritual power that Hindus believe lives in everything | 7 | |
| 210098903 | Brahmins | special priests of the Indo-Aryan society who knew the proper forms and rules of their complicated religious rituals | 8 | |
| 210098904 | Caste | one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige | 9 | |
| 210098905 | Cataracts | dangerous whitewater rapids. A series of these were located to the south of Egypt protecting it from water invasion from this direction. | 10 | |
| 210098906 | Civilization | a form of culture characterized by cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology | 11 | |
| 210098907 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 12 | |
| 210098908 | Domestication | the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food | 13 | |
| 210098909 | Dynasty | a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time | 14 | |
| 210098910 | Economic Specialization | individuals or groups of people who concentrate on one product or service | 15 | |
| 210098911 | Egalitarian | A person who believes in the equality of all people | 16 | |
| 210098912 | Erosion | a gradual decline of something | 17 | |
| 210098913 | Foraging | A term for hunting and gathering | 18 | |
| 210098914 | Hammurabi's Code | A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties. | 19 | |
| 210098915 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 20 | |
| 210098916 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria | 21 | |
| 210098917 | Indo-European | People from around the the Black Sea and the Caspian sea; Between 2500 and 2000 BC, they migrated all over Eurasia; known as Hittites or Aryans, became ancestors of Romans and Greeks | 22 | |
| 210098918 | Karma | in Hinduism and Buddhism, the totality of the good and bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determine his or her fate after rebirth | 23 | |
| 210098919 | Loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | 24 | |
| 210098920 | Maize | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties | 25 | |
| 210098921 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China. | 26 | |
| 210098922 | Matriarchal | pertaining to rule or leadership by women or mothers | 27 | |
| 210098923 | Mercenary | a soldier who serves for pay in a foreign army | 28 | |
| 210098924 | Metallurgy | the science or art of metals. It includes the study of their properties and structure, the separation and refining of metals from their ores, the production of alloys, and the shaping and treatment of metals by heat and rolling. | 29 | |
| 210098925 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. | 30 | |
| 210098926 | Monotheism | the belief that there is only one God | 31 | |
| 210098927 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) also known as the New Stone Age | 32 | |
| 210098928 | Nomad | A member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water | 33 | |
| 210098929 | Obsidian | a green or black volcanic glass found in the Valley of Mexico and used to make razor sharp weapons. | 34 | |
| 210098930 | Oracle Bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 35 | |
| 210098931 | Paleolithic | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC also known as the Old Stone Age | 36 | |
| 210098932 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 37 | |
| 210098933 | Patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 38 | |
| 210098934 | Pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader | 39 | |
| 210098935 | Pictographs | pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing | 40 | |
| 210098936 | Polytheism | The belief in many gods | 41 | |
| 210098937 | Samsara | the wheel of rebirth or reincarnation; the this-worldly realm in which rebirth occurs | 42 | |
| 210098938 | Sati | Hindu custom that called for a wife to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre | 43 | |
| 210098939 | Savannah | a tropical or subtropical grassland containing scattered trees and drought-resistant undergrowth | 44 | |
| 210098940 | Self-Sufficient | able to provide for oneself without the help of others | 45 | |
| 210098941 | Varna | The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class, the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class, the Vaishya merchant/farmer class, and the Shudra laborer class. | 46 | |
| 210098942 | Vedas | sacred texts in the Hindu religion, they are a set of four collections of hymns and religious ceremonies transmitted by memory through the centuries by Aryan priests | 47 | |
| 210098943 | Veneration | extreme respect and reverence; worship | 48 | |
| 210098944 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion founded by Zoroaster; taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end | 49 |
