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| 32736253 | classic, classical | traditional, relating to a form or system felt to be of first signifigance before modern times | 32736253 | |
| 32736254 | scholar-gentry | In China, the class of prosperous families next in wealth below the rural aristocrats from which the rulers drew their administrative personnel. Respected for their education and expertise, these officials became a privileged group and made the government more efficient and responsive than in the past. | 32736254 | |
| 32736255 | filial piety | respect for parents and elders | 32736255 | |
| 32736256 | empire | a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler | 32736256 | |
| 32736257 | aristocracy | land-owning families who make up a small portion of the population | 32736257 | |
| 32736258 | direct democracy | a government where decicisons are made by the citizens | 32736258 | |
| 32736259 | representative democracy | a government where citizens elect representatives to make decisioins for them | 32736259 | |
| 32736260 | rational thought | to base one's opinion on evidence and reason rather than superstition or commonly accepted beliefs | 32736260 | |
| 32736261 | philosopher | thinkers who use logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society and morality | 32736261 | |
| 32736262 | tyranny | form of government in which ruling power is in the hands of a person who has seized control through the force or the manipulation of social groups | 32736262 | |
| 32736263 | oligarchy | form of government in which ruling power is in the hands of a few leaders | 32736263 | |
| 32736264 | barbarians | member of a society considered primitive, savage, etc. | 32736264 | |
| 32736265 | paterfamilias | the legal head of the extended family in Rome and the only person who could own property. Made all the decisions affecting his wife, children, and son's wives. | 32736265 | |
| 32736266 | autocracy | a government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it any manner he chooses | 32736266 | |
| 32736267 | dictator | a political leader given absolute power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are elected by the people | 32736267 | |
| 32736268 | republic | a form of government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are elected by the people. | 32736268 | |
| 32736269 | civil service | the administrative departments of the government, especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examinations | 32736269 |
