Chapter 7 AP World History Vocab Networks of Communication and Exchange Flashcards
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| 5348774350 | Silk Road | Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and iran |  | 0 |
| 5348774351 | Parthinians | Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 BCE. and 226 ce | 1 | |
| 5348774352 | Sassanid empire | Iranian emoire, established ca. 224, with a capital in Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia; established Zoroastrianism |  | 2 |
| 5348774353 | Stirrup | Device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively; evidence of the first use of these was among the Kushan people of northern Afghanistan in approximately the first century ce |  | 3 |
| 5348774354 | Indian Ocean Maritime System | In premodern times, a network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries in the from Africa to Indonesia |  | 4 |
| 5348774355 | Trans-Saharan caravan routes | Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the sahara |  | 5 |
| 5348774356 | Sahel | Belt south of the Sahara; means "coastland" in arabic |  | 6 |
| 5348774357 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Portion of the African continent lying south of the sahara |  | 7 |
| 5348774358 | Steppes | Treeless plains, especially the high, flat expanses of Norton Eurasia, which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass |  | 8 |
| 5348774359 | Savanna | Tropical or subtropical grassland, either treeless or with occasional clumps of trees |  | 9 |
| 5348774360 | 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 |
| 5348774361 | "Great traditions" | Historians term for a literate. Well institutionalize do complex of religion and social beliefs and practices adhered to by diverse societies over a broad geographical area |  | 11 |
| 5348774362 | "Small tradition" | Historians term for a localized, usually no literate, set of customs and beliefs adhered to by a single society | 12 | |
| 5348774363 | Bantu | Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the people speaking these languages |  | 13 |
| 5348774364 | Armenia | One of the earliest christian kingdoms, situated in eastern Anatolia and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language |  | 14 |
| 5348774365 | Ethiopia | East Africa highland nation lying east of the Nile River |  | 15 |