Chapter 7 Flashcards

The Earth and Its Peoples

85457711	Silk Road	Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.	0
85457712	Sasanid Empire	Iranian empire, established ca. 226, with a capital in Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia. The Sasanid emperors established Zoroastrianism as the state religion	1
85457713	Stirrup	Device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively.	2
85457714	Sahel	south of the Sahara; literally "coastland in Arabic.	3
85457715	Savanna	Tropical or subtropical grassland, either treeless or with occasional clumps of trees	4
85457716	Sub-Saharan Africa	Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara	5
85457717	Steppes	Treeless plains, especially the high, flat expanses of northern Eurasia, which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass	6
85457718	Trans-Saharan caravan routes	Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara	7
85457719	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.	8
85457720	Ethiopia	East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.	9
85457721	Bantu	Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages.	10
85457722	Armenia	One of the earliest Christian kingdoms, situated in eastern Anatolia and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language.	11