FBMS Asia Vocabulary ch 4-6 Flashcards
Dynasty
Family of rulers
Emperor
Male ruler , king
Clan
Group of families w/ common ansestor
Cultural diffusion
Spreading of ideas from culture to culture
Communist
Goverment that controls countries large buisness
Commune
Community when people work together
Dialect
Unique language to a different region
Nomad
A person that has no settled home but moves from place to place
Homogeneous
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 cannot change; each group with assigned jobs
Colony
Land ruled by another nation
Boycott
Refusal to buy goods
Partion
Division into parts
Monotheism
Belief that there is only one God
Collective farm
In a communist country, a large farm formed from many private farms collected into a single unit controlled by the government
Muezzin
A person whose job is to call Muslims to pray
Holocaust
The systematic killing of more than 6 million Jews and others by the Nazi Germany before and during WW2
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 interest of his or her country
Khmer Rouge
The Cambodian Communist party
Maori
A native of New Zealand whose ancestors traveled from Asia to Polynesia, and later to New Zealand
early people from Australia
Aborine
Staition
Raising live stock
