Unit 1 & 2
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| 293231783 | hunting-gathering (foraging) | Any human culture or society that depends on a combination of hunting, fishing, and gathering wild foods for subsistence. A human society that relies on hunting animals, or gathering crops to survive | 0 | |
| 293231784 | domesticated plants and animals | the practice of breeding plants or taming animals to meet human needs. | 1 | |
| 293231785 | sedentary | Living without moving for a period | 2 | |
| 293231786 | nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | 3 | |
| 293231787 | pastoral | relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | 4 | |
| 293231788 | neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period. | 5 | |
| 293231789 | deity | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | 6 | |
| 293231790 | pantheon | (antiquity) a temple to all the gods | 7 | |
| 293231791 | pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. | 8 | |
| 293231792 | caste system | a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society | 9 | |
| 293231793 | priest | a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites | 10 | |
| 293231794 | nun | a woman who has taken a sacred vow to devote her life to prayer and service to the church | 11 | |
| 293231795 | monotheism | belief in a single God | 12 | |
| 293231796 | polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 13 | |
| 293231797 | celibacy | abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | 14 | |
| 293231798 | monasticism | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith | 15 | |
| 293231799 | afterlife | life after death | 16 | |
| 293231800 | reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions | 17 | |
| 293231801 | missionaries | people who work to spread their religious beliefs | 18 | |
| 293231802 | pilgrims | A group of people who left England because of religion who were sent to America to create another source of income for the British | 19 | |
| 293231803 | filial | designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation | 20 | |
| 293231804 | kinship groups | groups of people related by blood or marriage | 21 | |
| 293231805 | conversion | a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | 22 | |
| 293231806 | priesthood | the body of ordained religious practitioners | 23 | |
| 293231807 | sacred texts | books that give religious guidance to their respective groups Bible, Qu'ran, and Tora | 24 | |
| 293231808 | imperial | relating to or associated with an empire | 25 | |
| 293231809 | feudal | relating to a system in which people (called "vassals") were given protection and the use of land, in return for loyalty, payments, and services to a lord | 26 | |
| 293231810 | state | a politically organized body of people under a single government | 27 | |
| 293231811 | empire | a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler | 28 | |
| 293231812 | ideology | system of ideas of a group | 29 | |
| 293231813 | bureaucracy | system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 30 | |
| 293231814 | civil service | A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service. | 31 | |
| 293231815 | social hierarchy | The division of society by rank or class | 32 | |
| 293231816 | stratification | the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | 33 | |
| 293231817 | inequality | an unfair situation in which some people have more rights or better opportunities than other people | 34 | |
| 293231818 | patriarchy | a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | 35 | |
| 293231819 | slavery | the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages | 36 | |
| 293231820 | urban | located in or characteristic of a city or city life | 37 | |
| 293231821 | tax revenue | government income due to taxation | 38 | |
| 293231822 | nobility | a privileged class holding hereditary titles | 39 | |
| 293231823 | elites | A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status. | 40 | |
| 293231824 | autonomy | immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | 41 | |
| 293231825 | citizen | A person with certain rights and responsibilities in his or her country or community | 42 | |
| 293231826 | trade goods | products such as animals and crops were traded between civilizations | 43 | |
| 293231827 | role of nomads in trade | In early civilizations the nomadic people were a strong part of trade, as they traveled from place to place as part of their lifestyle. | 44 |
