ap world history Flashcards

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32792332	paleoanthropologist	A student of the earliest humans and the setting in which they lived	32792332
32792333	myth	an interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but has a deep moral message	32792333
32792334	caste	a hierarchical ordering of people into groups,fixed from birth,based on their inherited ritual status and determining whom they may marry and with whom they may eat	32792334
32792335	teleology	(philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes	32792335
32792336	homo erectus	the most widespread of all prehistoric hominds of the most similar to humans evolved about smill years ago and became extinct 100,000 years ago	32792336
33683706	paradigm	a model of reality representing one viewpoint	33683706
33683707	exogamy	the practice by which a person is compelled to choose a marital partner from outside his or her own group	33683707
33683708	shaman	in the religious beliefs of some asian and american tribal societies	33683708