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290813624hunting-gatheringThe killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance.0
290813625Domesticated plants and animalsto convert animals to be domestic for a reliable food source1
290813626Sedentary, Nomadic, Pastoral(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently2
290813627Neolithica period when the hunting and gathering lifestyle gave way to permanent settlements and the tending of plants and animals.3
290813628Deity, Pantheon, Paganany supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force4
290813629Caste Systema set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society5
290813630Priest, Nuna religious leader who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites6
290813631Monotheism, PolytheismMono- The worship of only one god. Poly- The worship of more than one god.7
290813632Monasticism, Celibacya way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith8
290813633Reincarnation, Afterlifebelief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form after death9
290813634Missionaries, Pilgrimspeople sent out to carry a religious message; also focuses on converting10
290813635Kinship groups, FilialEarly agricultural and technological development - Small groups of settlers grew into kinship-based villages that practiced both crop cultivation and domestication of animals. Tools and inventions helped villages to stabilize and eventually grow.11
290813636Priesthood, Conversionthe body of ordained religious practitioners who helped bring people to their religion12
290813637Sacred Textsbooks that give religious guidance to their respective groups Bible, Qu'ran, and Tora13
290813638Imperial, FeudalWhen centeral power in the empire declined, a system in which people (called "vassals") were given protection and the use of land, in return for loyalty, payments, and services to a lord14
290813639State, Empire, Ideologya politically organized body of people under a single government with a system of social or political ideas15
290813640Bureaucracy; civil servicesystem of managing government through departments run by appointed officials16
290813641Social hierarchy; stratification; inequalityThe division of society by rank or class, not chosen but put in a class due to job or birth17
290813642Patriarchya form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line18
290813643Slaverythe condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages19
290813644Urbanrelating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area20

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