WHAP chapter 7 vocab (mr. seidel)
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| 245816976 | Silk Road | Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran. (p. 203) | 0 | |
| 245816977 | Parthians | Persian dynasty. Based in Iran and extended to Mesopotamia. Had very heavy calvary (horses and armored troops). Government followed the example of the Achaemenid administration. | 1 | |
| 245816978 | Sasanid Empire | Iranian empire, established ca. 226, with a capital in Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia. The Sasanid emperors established Zoroastrianism as the state religion. Islamic Arab armies overthrew the empire ca. 640. (p. 225) | 2 | |
| 245816979 | Stirrup | support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go | 3 | |
| 245816980 | Indian Ocean Maritime System | In premodern times, a network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia. (p. 207) | 4 | |
| 245816981 | Trans-Saharan Caravan Routes | Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara. | 5 | |
| 245816982 | Sahel | a strip of dry grasslands on the southern border of the Sahara; also known as "the shore of the desert" | 6 | |
| 245816983 | Sub-Saharan Africa | The region south of the Sahara Desert in Africa; includes some of the world's richest deposits of minerals, yet still remains one of the largest regions of undeveloped natural resources in the world. | 7 | |
| 245816984 | Steppes | wide rolling grassy plains that stretch from the Black Sea to northern China | 8 | |
| 245816985 | Savanna | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | 9 | |
| 245816986 | Tropical Rain Forest | a rain forest in a tropical area; Humans relied on tropical forests to provide a steady supply of wood, plants, animals, many of our first fruits, fibers, grains, medicines, cloths, resins, pigments, and other materials. Major trade routes, and empires developed to control the flow of resources. | 10 | |
| 245816987 | "Great Traditions" | historians term for a literate, well-institutionalized complex of religiouis and socila beliefs and practices adhered to by diverse societies over a broad geographical area | 11 | |
| 245816988 | "Small Traditions" | historians term for a localized, usually nonliterate, set of customs and beliefs adhered to by a single society | 12 | |
| 245816989 | Bantu | a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent | 13 | |
| 245816990 | Armenia | a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia | 14 | |
| 245816991 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea | 15 |
