Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 24

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
-sati

• A)Groups of people who move from place to place in search of food, water, and pasture for their animals, usually following the seasons.
• B)Grasslands that are too dry for crops but support pasturing animals; they are common across much of the center of Eurasia.
• C)Tents in which the pastoral nomads lived; they could be quickly dismantled and loaded onto animals or carts.
• D)The title given to the Mongol ruler Temujin in 1206; it means Great Ruler.
• E)The states ruled by a khan; the four units into which Chinggis divided the Mongol Empire.
• F)Assigning the collection of taxes to whoever bids the most for the privilege.
• G)The Muslim classification used for Hindus, Christians, and Jews; they were allowed to follow their religions but had to pay a special tax.
• H)The thousands of Indian castes.
• I)A practice whereby a high-caste Hindu woman would throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
• J)India's classical literary language.
• K)A maritime empire that held the Strait of Malacca and the waters around Sumatra and adjacent islands.

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Definitions:

Cerebellum

A convoluted subdivision of the vertebrate brain concerned with coordination of muscular movements, muscle tone, and balance.

Gray Matter

Nervous tissue in the brain and spinal cord that contains cell bodies, dendrites, and unmyelinated axons. Compare with white matter

White Matter

Nervous tissue in the brain and spinal cord that contains myelinated axons. Compare with gray matter.

Myelinated Axons

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