Social Studies Final
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lrvenneri on June 5, 2010
Subjects:
social studies, social studies vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 emperor | the male ruler of an empire |
| dynasties | a series of rulers from the same family |
| clan | a group of families with a common ancestor |
| cultural diffusion | the spreading of ideas or practices from one culture to other cultures |
| communist | relating to a government that controls a country;s large industries, businesses, and land |
| commune | a community in which people own land as a group and where they live and work together |
| dialect | a variation of a language that is unique to a region or an area |
| nomad | a person who has no settled home but who moves from place to place |
| homogenious | identical or similar |
| ethnic group | a group of people who share such characteristics as language, religion, and ancestry |
| caste | in the Hindu religion, a social group into which people are born and which they can't change; each group has assigned jobs |
| colony | a territory ruled by another nation |
| boycott | a refusal to buy or use goods and services to show disapproval or bring about change |
| partition | a division into parts or portions |
| monothesim | A beilef in one God |
| muezzin | one who calls Muslims to pray |
| Holocaust | the systematic killing of more than 6 million European Jews and others by Nazi Germany before and during WWII |
| collective farm | in a Communist country, a large farm formed from many private farms collected into a single unit controlled by the government |
| Khmer Empire | an empire that included much of present day Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and part of Laos |
| nationalist | a person who is devoted to the interests of his or her country |
| Khmer Rouge | the Cambodian Communist party |
| Maori | a native of New Zealand whose ancestors first traveled from Asia to Polynesia, and later to New Zealand |
| Aborigine | a member of the earliest people of Australia, who probably came from Asia |
| penal colony | a place where people convicted of crimes are sent |
| station | a large ranch for raising livestock |
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