AP World History Vocab Chapter 7 Flashcards

88627164	Silk Road	caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central asia and Iran.	0
88627165	Parthians	Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 CE.	1
88627166	Sasanid Empire	Iranian empire, established ca. 226, with a capital in Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia. these emperors established Zoroastrianism as the state religion. Islamic Arab armies overthrew the empire ca. 640.	2
88627167	stirrup	Device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively. first evidence of the use of these was among the Kushan people of northern Afghanistan in approximately the first century CE.	3
88627168	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.	4
88627169	trans-Saharan caravan routes	trading network lining north Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara.	5
88627170	Sahel	belt south of the Sahara; literally "coastland" in Arabic.	6
88627171	sub-Saharan Africa	portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara. with dramatically different environments.	7
88627172	steppes	treeless plains, especially the high, flat expanses of northern Eurasia, which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. they are good lands for nomads and their herds. living on these promoted the breeding of horses and the development of military skills that were essential to the rise of the Mongol Empire.	8
88627173	savanna	tropical or subtropical grassland, either treeless or with occasional clumps of trees. most extensive in sub-Saharan Africa but also present in South America.	9
88627174	tropical rain forest	high-precipitation forest zones of the Americas, Africa, and Asia lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.	10
88627175	"great traditions"	historians' term for a literate, well-institutionalized complex of religious and social beliefs and practices adhered to by diverse societies over a broad geographical area.	11
88627176	"small traditions"	historians' term for a localized, usually nonliterate, set of customs and beliefs adhered to by a single society.	12
88627177	Bantu	collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages.	13
88627178	Armenia	one of the earliest Christian kingdoms, situated in eastern Anatolia and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of this language.	14
88627179	Ethiopia	east African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.	15