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| Name: | 7th Grade Social Studies Essential Vocab |
| Description: | Essential Vocab |
| # Cards: | 29 |
| Q1: | development of a world wide culture with an interdependent economy |
| A1: | Globalization |
| Q2: | The feeling that your culture is superior to another culture. |
| A2: | Ethnocentrism |
| Q3: | The kind of money used by a group or a nation |
| A3: | Currency |
| Q4: | Form of government in which the leader claims to rule on behalf of a god |
| A4: | Theocracy |
| Q5: | A form of government in which citizens govern themselves |
| A5: | Democracy |
| Q6: | The belief in one god |
| A6: | Monotheism |
| Q7: | The belief in many gods |
| A7: | Polytheism |
| Q8: | The title of the kings and queens of ancient Egypt |
| A8: | Pharaoh |
| Q9: | An early form of paper made from reedlike plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta |
| A9: | Papyrus |
| Q10: | Rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river |
| A10: | Silt |
| Q11: | Complete control over someone or something |
| A11: | Absolute power |
| Q12: | Highly developed culture |
| A12: | Civilization |
| Q13: | Way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs |
| A13: | Culture |
| Q14: | Family of rulers |
| A14: | Dynasty |
| Q15: | Growth of cities |
| A15: | Urbanization |
| Q16: | The next life, in which the dead are believed to live again |
| A16: | Afterlife |
| Q17: | Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule |
| A17: | Regent |
| Q18: | A worker who is especially skilled in making something, such as baskets, leather goods, tools, jewelry, pottery, or clothes. |
| A18: | Artisan |
| Q19: | A successor to Muhammed and a spiritual leader of Islam |
| A19: | Caliph |
| Q20: | Islamic pilgramage to the holy city of Mecca |
| A20: | Hajj |
| Q21: | Islamic house of worship |
| A21: | Mosque |
| Q22: | A form of government in which a leader rules by force |
| A22: | Dictatorship |
| Q23: | nonreligious |
| A23: | Secular |
| Q24: | A mass murder of people from a particular ethnic group |
| A24: | Genocide |
| Q25: | A ban on trade with a particular country |
| A25: | Embargo |
| Q26: | A farm product grown for export |
| A26: | Cash crop |
| Q27: | The process of treating seawater to remove salts and minerals in order to make it drinkable |
| A27: | Desalinization |
| Q28: | An area built up by rich fertile soil left by river floods |
| A28: | Alluvial plain |
| Q29: | Steps taken by a nation to limit trading with one or more other nations |
| A29: | Trade Sanction |
