Vocab #2 Ap World History

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1. the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation: considered by Muslims an ancestor of the Arab peoples through his son Ishmael. 2. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “father of many”

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Abraham

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is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. _____ perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words—as being animated, having agency and free will.

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Animism

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1. : a sib or clan that constituted the basic socioeconomic unit of Inca society. 2. : a present-day Peruvian highland community of extended families that owns some land in common and that serves as an administrative unit.

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Ayllus

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a member of the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.

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Aztec

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a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings./is a person who is on the path towards bodhi or Buddhahood.

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Bodhisattva

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a person who has attained Buddhahood/literally means enlightened one, a knower.

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Buddha

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is the idea of combining the social and political power of secular government with religious power, or of making secular authority superior to the spiritual authority of the Church, especially concerning the connection of the Church with government.

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Caesaropapism

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Founded in 1699 by Quebec missionaries and named for a tribe of Illinois Indians (______, meaning “Wild Geese”), it was the first permanent European settlement in Illinois and became a center of French influence in the upper Mississippi River valley

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Cahokia

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is a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico. The word ______ has Nahuatl origins, ______ meaning “in the fence of reeds”.

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chinampa

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a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius/also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, religion, theory of government, or way of life

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Confucianism