Ap world history fall final vocab Flashcards
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116014511 | pastoralism | the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock | 0 | |
116014512 | shifting cultivation | plots of land are cultivated temporarily then abandoned so the soil can regain fertility | 1 | |
116014513 | courage cultures | war-like males bond to each other by strong ties of personal loyalty and they place emphasis on personal honor and physcial courage | 2 | |
116014515 | gilgamesh | a legendary sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythical stories | 3 | |
116014517 | iliad | epic poem by homer that is the sequal to the iliad and it deals with odysseus and his many adeventures on his journey home | 4 | |
116014519 | odyssey | epic poem by homer that is the sequal to the iliad and it deals with odysseus and his many adventurees home | 5 | |
116014521 | analects | collection of moral and social teachinging of confucius | 6 | |
116014523 | aeneid | an epic written by virgil, tells the adventures of aeneas after the trojan war,provides an illustrious historical background for roman empire | 7 | |
116014525 | bishops | ordained or consecrated members of the christian clergy entrusted with posisitons of authority and oversight | 8 | |
116014527 | vedas | large body of texts originating in ancient india composed in vedic sanskrit and contains the oldest scriptures of hinduism. | 9 | |
116014529 | yellow turbans | led revolt emperor ling of han | 10 | |
116014531 | sufis | muslims who represent the mystical dimensoin of islam; seek direct expirience of allah | 11 | |
116014533 | sahel | ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transisiton betwee n the sahara dessert in the north and the sudanian savannas in the south | 12 | |
116014535 | griots | story tellers in west africa that perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village | 13 | |
116014537 | ethnocentrism | tendency to believe that ones ethnic or culturual group is centrally important and that all other groups are measured in relation to ones own | 14 |