Social Studies Final
needed for sspp students vut you are welcome to use this set though
Terms
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- ascendancy
- rise to a position of power
- agrarian
- most of their lives were related to farming
- prime minister
- the chief official appointed by the ruler of a country
- sphere of influence
- an area that is strongly influenced or dominated by a particular ruler or government
- sharia
- the Islamic law code
- terraces
- flat strips of level land
- Zheng He
- the leader of the expeditions was a court official
- mainland
- The major land area of a continent
- mita
- labor tax
- reincarnated
- born anew in another body after death
- meditation
- the emptying of the mind of thoughts in order to acheive spiritual development
- alms
- goods or money given to the poor or needy
- tyrant
- a cruel ruler who uses his power without any limits
- census
- a population survey
- griot
- professional storytellers and oral historians
- elite
- a small group of highly privilaged or skilled people
- Augustus
- also known as Octavian took this name which means 'great and holy one"
- feudalism
- a social system in which lords grant people land or other rewards in exchange for military service
- causeway
- a raised road across a body of water
- nomadic
- people who move from place to placewith no fixed home
- bureaucracy
- a system of government with many departments and bureaus all needed by appointed officials
- Zhu Xi
- a sholar-official who was the most famous Neo-Confucian thinker
- primary source
- a record that was created at or near the time of an event
- sutra
- scripture
- Hongwu
- China's founder of the Ming dynasty and the ruler of it
- constitution
- plan of government
- astrolabe
- an instrument that is designed to measure and plot the position of the stars
- despot
- a cruel tyrant
- consensus
- a general agreement among the members of a group of community.
- corruption
- the use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- savannah
- a broad grassland with scattered trees
- literacy
- the ability to read and write
- drought
- a prolonged period of little or no rainfall
- anthology
- a book of words by different writers
- land tenure
- the way land is owned and distributed
- archipelago
- chain of islands
- hierarchy
- a system for ranking members of a group according to their importance
- social mobility
- the ability to rise in society
- shogun
- supreme military commander
- shiites
- form of the largest minority Islam sect
- lineage
- a group of people who are related to a common ancestor
- Askia Muhammad
- a devout Muslim who took control of Songhai
- material culture
- consists of buildings, tools and other objects that shape how people live
- proverb
- wise sayings
- Abu Bakr
- a Muslim ruler
- basin
- a bowl shaped area, often with a lake at the bottom of it
- caliphate
- rule by a caliph
- chinampas
- floating gardens
- codex
- an ancient book that was written by hand
- Altiplano
- a high plain centered in Bolivia
- scholarship
- formal study and learning
- Mesoamerica
- a region extending from central Mexico into northern Central America
- Attila
- a leader, also a Hun's chief in about A.D. 430
- conservative
- resistent to change
- revenue
- income to run the government
- labor specialization
- the division of jobs and skills in a society
- inflation
- a general rise in prices
- Empress Wu
- a strong ruler who was the only woman emperor in Chinese history
- polygomy
- marriage to more than one spouse
- mosque
- a Muslim house of worship