6th grade vocab
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- monsoon
- seasonal wind pattern that causes wet and dry seasons
- history
- study of the past
- government
- ruling system of a land
- imports
- goods brought in from other regions
- inherit
- to receive from an ancestor by legal succession or will
- labor
- factor of production which does the work
- maize
- corn
- legislative branch
- branch of government which makes the laws
- landforms
- natural features of the land's surface
- inoculation
- injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help build up defenses to a disease
- nonviolence
- avoidance of violent actions
- longitude
- imaginary grid lines on a map showing distance east or west
- Great Wall of China
- barrier made of walls across China's northern frontier
- ice ages
- long periods of freezing weather
- monarch
- ruler of a kingdom or empire
- land
- factor of production which represents natural resources
- irrigation
- way of supplying water to an area of land
- hieroglyphics
- ancient Egyptian writing system that used picture symbols
- influence
- power affecting a person, thing, or course of events
- Judaism
- religion of the Hebrews; it is the world's oldest monotheistic religion
- Islam
- religion based on the messages of Muhammad is believed to have received from God
- meditation
- deep, continued thought that focuses the mind on spiritual ideas
- monarchy
- kingdom or empire
- masonary
- stonework
- noble
- rich and powerful person
- hinduism
- main religion of India; it teaches that everything is part of a universal spirit called Brahman
- merchants
- traders
- oasis
- wet, fertile area within a desert
- jihad
- to make an effort or to struggle; has also been interpreted to mean holy war
- Muslim
- follower of Islam
- meridian
- lines of longitude
- Messiah
- in Judaism, a new leader that would appera among the Jews and restore the greatness of ancient Israel
- legend
- map key
- migrate
- to move to a new place
- observatories
- buildings used to study astronomy; Mayan priests watched the stars from these buildings
- land bridge
- strip of land connecting two continents
- mosque
- building for Muslim prayer
- missionaries
- people who work to spread religious beliefs
- lords
- people of high rank who owned land but owed loyalty to their king
- hemisphere
- one half of the earth
- judicial branch
- branch of government responsible for interpreting the Constitution
- innovation
- act of introducing something new
- monotheism
- belief in only one god
- Hindu-Arabic numerals
- number system we use today; it was created by Indian scholars during the Gupta dynasty
- method
- means or manner of accomplishing something
- metropolis
- large city and the surrounding areas
- papyrus
- long-lasting, paper-like material made from needs that the ancient Egyptians used to write on
- latitude
- imaginary grid lines on a map showing distance north or south of the equator
- hunter-gatherers
- people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
- obelisk
- tall, pointed, four-sided pillar in ancient Egypt
- Legalism
- belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled