Vocabulary
This vocab word makes petting zoos possible.
What is domestication?
This describes how the steppe looks compared to nearby mountains.
What is flat or rolling hills?
The main source of food for pastoralists.
What is their animals/livestock?
A material widely desired for its comfort, originating in China.
What is silk?
Medieval Europeans believed this common spice could cure everything from plague to indigestion.
What is pepper?
This action allows both people participating to get what they need.
What is trade?
Due to its distance from the equator, temperatures on the steppe can be both of these.
What is hot (summer) and cold (winter).
The main way in which pastoralists would choose to interact with sedentary neighbors.
What is trade?
While common today, this was Indian product was very valuable.
What are spices?
In the Middle Ages, people believed this disease was caused by bad air, giving us its modern name.
What is malaria? (Mala - Bad / Aria - Air)
Man, it feels like we had the same weather last year around this time...feels patterned.
What is climate?
Without much rain, this means that the steppe has this quality which makes agriculture difficult.
What is dry?
The difference between gender roles in agricultural societies compared to pastoral societies.
What is pastoral societies are general more equal?
What is animal products? (Protection across the steppe also works here.)
During the Cold War, students were taught this tactic to protect themselves during a nuclear attack.
What is hide underneath their desks?
What is a nomad?
Describe the location of the Eurasian Steppe compared to the civilizations discussed in class.
What is in between, northern, centrally, etc?
Reasons that pastoralists migrate across the steppe.
What is to find new grazing lands, avoid seasons that are too hot or cold, or to trade with sedentary neighbors?
An item that China refused to trade to pastoralists and one that pastoralists could not make due to their nomadic lifestyle.
What is iron? (Bronze works too)
The leader of the Kingdom of Mali, Mansa Musa, was so rich that this happened when he traveled through Egypt and spent money.
___________ live on the __________.
What is Pastoralists live on the Steppe.
The technical term for when a mountain range stops water/rain from making it to the other side causing a steppe.
What is a rain shadow?
Due to raids from pastoral groups like the Xiongnu, Chinese dynasties built this.
What is the Great Wall of China?
A religion that became popular across the steppe as it spread from India to China.
What is Buddhism?
During World War II, this code was so secure that it was never broken—and it was based on an Indigenous language.
What is the Navajo Code (Code Talkers)?