Chapter 9 AP World History Flashcards
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7510095234 | Maoris | residents of New Zealand; migrated to New Zealand from Society Islands as | 0 | |
7510098040 | Mana | the power of Hawaiian ali'i ; emanated from their lineages and enabled them to extract labor nor tribute from their subjects. | 1 | |
7510102523 | Kamehameha 1 | the event where people fought series of wars backed by British weapons and advisers resulting in unified Hawaiian kingdom by 1810; as king he promoted economics change encouraging Western merchants to establish export trade in Hawaiian goods. | 2 | |
7510106665 | Polynesia | islands contained in a rough triangle whose points are lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island. | 3 | |
7510109901 | Austronesian | a family of 30 related languages found in Philippines , Indonesia, and southeast Asia; people of this linguistic group migrated throughout the Pacific. | 4 | |
7510109902 | Yamato | a Japanese clan that gained increasing dominance in the 4th and 5th centuries C.E.; created imperial cult around Amaterasu and Shinto; brought most of the lowland plains of the southern islands under control. | 5 | |
7510112545 | Jomon culture | created by early migrants to Japan after 3000 B.C.E.; hunting-and-gathering people, produced distinctive pottery form. | 6 | |
7510115184 | Slavs | an Indo-European group in Russia and the Balkans that ultimately dominated much of eastern Europe from the Balkans northward. | 7 | |
7510127809 | Celts | inhabited most of Britain and Ireland; organized in small regional kingdoms; featured mixed agricultural and hunting economies; replaced in most places by Germans | 8 | |
7510127810 | Bantu | originated in eastern Nigeria in west Africa; migrated into central and southern Africa using rivers- particularly the Congo Basin; village dwellers who depended on agriculture and fishing. | 9 | |
7510134388 | Yoruba | city-states developed in northern Nigeria c. 120 C.E. ;lle-lfe featured artistic style possibly related to earlier Nok culture; agricultural societies supported by peasantry and dominated by ruling family and aristocracy. | 10 | |
7510138234 | Sahel | the extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of Sahara; a point of exchange between the forests to the south and northern Africa. | 11 | |
7510140280 | Transhumant | a form of pastoralism common to the Mediterranean basin and the Sahara; involves moving from one region to another according to the season. | 12 | |
7510145229 | Pygmies | one of few pure hunting societies left in Africa following Bantu migration. | 13 |