Vocabulary words
Terms : Hide Images
| 212433998 | Agrarian | relating to rural matters | 0 | |
| 212433999 | Agriculturists | Generate their own foods from planting | 1 | |
| 212434000 | Archaeology | the study of the remains of past cultures | 2 | |
| 212434001 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 3 | |
| 212434002 | Asceticism | rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | 4 | |
| 212434003 | Austronesian | the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia | 5 | |
| 212434004 | Bureaucracy | nonelective government officials | 6 | |
| 212434005 | Brahman | any of several breeds of Indian cattle | 7 | |
| 212434006 | Brahmins | priests | 8 | |
| 212434007 | Caste | (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus | 9 | |
| 212434008 | Cataracts | Waterfalls | 10 | |
| 212434009 | Civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 11 | |
| 212434010 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 12 | |
| 212434011 | Domestication | accommodation to domestic life | 13 | |
| 212434012 | Dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | 14 | |
| 212434013 | Economic Specialization | individuals or groups of people who concentrate on one product or service | 15 | |
| 212434014 | Egalitarian | a person who believes in the equality of all people | 16 | |
| 212434015 | Erosion | (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) | 17 | |
| 212434016 | Foraging | the act of searching for food and provisions | 18 | |
| 212434017 | 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 | |
| 212434018 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 20 | |
| 212434019 | 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 (p.64) | 21 | |
| 212434020 | Indo-European | A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia | 22 | |
| 212434021 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 23 | |
| 212434022 | Loess | a fertile deposit of windblown soil | 24 | |
| 212434023 | Maize | corn | 25 | |
| 212434024 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 26 | |
| 212434025 | Matriarchal | relating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family | 27 | |
| 212434026 | Mercenary | a person hired to fight for another country than their own | 28 | |
| 212434027 | Metallurgy | The science and technology of metals | 29 | |
| 212434028 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. (179) | 30 | |
| 212434029 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 31 | |
| 212434030 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) | 32 | |
| 212434031 | Nomad | a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | 33 | |
| 212434032 | Obsidian | black volcanic rock | 34 | |
| 212434033 | Oracle Bones | cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated | 35 | |
| 212434034 | 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 | 36 | |
| 212434035 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 37 | |
| 212434036 | Patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 38 | |
| 212434037 | Pharaoh | the title of the ancient Egyptian kings | 39 | |
| 212434038 | Pictographs | picture symbols | 40 | |
| 212434039 | Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 41 | |
| 212434040 | Samsara | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth, reincarnation | 42 | |
| 212434041 | Sati | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. | 43 | |
| 212434042 | Savannah | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | 44 | |
| 212434043 | Self-Sufficient | able to provide there own needs | 45 | |
| 212434044 | Varna | (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) | 46 | |
| 212434045 | Vedas | Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 47 | |
| 212434046 | Veneration | respect or awe inspired by the dignity, wisdom, dedication, or talent of a person | 48 | |
| 212434047 | Zoroastrianism | dual gods of equal power to form early monotheism; Persian; cosmic struggle over good and bad; those that do good go to heaven and bad go to hell; influenced Judaism and Christianity | 49 |
