World History Vocabulary 2
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- a government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure, a governmant controlled by religious leaders
- theocracy
- the fine soil carried in the water of rivers
- silt
- a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by ancient egyptians to make a paper llike material for writing on
- papyrus
- an ancient egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent sounds and ideas
- hiroglyphics
- a belief in many gods
- polytheism
- a process of embalming and drying a corspe to prevent it from decaying
- mummifacation
- a massive stucture with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in egypt as burial places for old kingdom pharaohs
- pyramid
- a king of ancient egypt considered a god as well as a political and military leader
- pharaoh
- a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single leader
- empire
- a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their kings, in exchange for their loyalty, military serive, and protection of the people who live on the land
- feudalism
- the historical pattern of the rise, decline, and repacement of dynasties
- dynastic cycle
- a series of rulers from a single family
- dynasty
- the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another
- cultural diffusion
- a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an idependent political unit
- city-state
- the bringing of water to crop fields by means of canals and ditches
- irrigation ditches
- a skilled worker such as a weaver or a potter, who makes goods by hand
- artisan
- the development of skills in a paricular kind of work, such as trading or record keeping
- speicialization
- a form of trade in which people exchange goods or services woth out the use of money
- barter
- a long lasting pattern of orginization in a community
- institution
- the act of moving from one place to settle in another
- migration
- a wondering herder
- pastoral nomas
- the taming of animals for human use
- domestication
- a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plants and foods
- hunter-gatherer
- a member of a group, that has no pernament home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water
- nomad
- the ways in which people apply knowledge, tool, and inventions to meet their needs
- technology
- before written records
- pre-history
- the average span fromt he time of a child to the birth of their child, about twenty five years
- generation
- a peoples unique way of life
- culture
- a designated span of time "era"
- period
- before christs birth
- b.c.