Unit 3 Vocab guide

a gift or payment to one who has power over another to show respect and obedience

• tribute
• scribe
• intensification
• evidence

a way of life where a group of people survives from the secondary products of herds. People follow patterns of grazing to keep their herds alive

• Pastoralism
• Indus River
• Intensification
• Great Arid Zone

the use and knowledge of tools, crafts, or technical systems to solve problems and/or complete different tasks

• technology
• world zones
• chariot
• metallurgy

large groups of domesticated animals like sheep or goats

• scribe
• Americas
• Indus River
• herds

having no fixed home and move from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land

• conquest
• tribute
• evidence
• nomadic

a wheeled carriage powered by horses that was essential for trade and warfare

• chariot
• tribute
• bronze
• scribe

the belt of dry and semi-arid land that extends across Afroeurasia from the Sahara Desert in the west to Manchuria in northern China

• world zones
• Metallurgy
• Domestication
• Great Arid Zone

Taking control of a people or place through military force

• tribute
• conquest
• Indus River
• Americas

a metal alloy (metal mixture) consisting of mostly copper, but also with tin or lead. It is harder and stronger than plain copper

• chariot
• world zones
• tribute
• bronze

A vast grassland

• scribe
• herds
• tribute
• steppes