7174358239 | B.C.E. | Before Common Era | 0 | |
7174358941 | C.E. | Common Era | 1 | |
7174359586 | abdicate | To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner | 2 | |
7174359587 | accession | the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office, etc | 3 | |
7174359849 | aesthetic | relating to the philosophy of aesthetics; concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the the ugly | 4 | |
7174359850 | agrarian | relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property | 5 | |
7174359851 | amenities | any feature that provides comfort, convenience, or pleasure | 6 | |
7174360829 | anarchy | a state of society without government or law | 7 | |
7174360830 | animism | the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself posses souls | 8 | |
7174361248 | antiquity | the quality of being ancient; ancientness | 9 | |
7174381185 | appeasement | to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe | 10 | |
7174382129 | aristocracy | a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privilges, especially the hereditary nobility | 11 | |
7174383504 | asceticism | the manner of life, practices, or principles of an ascetic-(a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons) | 12 | |
7174387306 | assimilate | to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb | 13 | |
7174389364 | authoritarian | favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom | 14 | |
7174390873 | autocracy | government in which one person has uncontrolled unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch | 15 | |
7174392411 | barbarism | a barbarous or unciivilized state or condition | 16 | |
7174394971 | bureaucracy/bureaucrats | government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials / an official of a bureaucracy | 17 | |
7174397588 | city-state | a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependicies | 18 | |
7174399712 | civic | of or relating to a city; municipal | 19 | |
7174400774 | classical | of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity | 20 | |
7174401707 | colonial | of, concerning, or pertaining to a colony or colonies | 21 | |
7174402733 | commerce | an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trad; business | 22 | |
7174409868 | communal | used or shared in common by everyone in a group | 23 | |
7174410452 | concubine | a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married, especially on e regarded as socially or sexually subservient; mistress | 24 | |
7174412546 | conscription | compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft | 25 | |
7174413762 | cosmopolitan | free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world | 26 | |
7174417907 | coup | a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment | 27 | |
7174420846 | demography/demographic | the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc. of populations | 28 | |
7174422000 | despot | a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat | 29 | |
7174422959 | diaspora | the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian capivity | 30 | |
7174424251 | dissent | to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree | 31 | |
7174428375 | dissident | a person who dissents | 32 | |
7174429560 | domestic/domesticate | of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family / to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame | 33 | |
7174432000 | dynasty/dynastic | a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group | 34 | |
7174434023 | edict | a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority | 35 | |
7174435382 | egalitarian | asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life | 36 | |
7174439087 | elite | the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons | 37 | |
7174441250 | emigrate | to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate | 38 | |
7174443459 | epic | noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style | 39 | |
7174446789 | ethnocentric | the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture | 40 | |
7174448787 | feudalism | the feudal system, or principles and practices | 41 | |
7174453060 | genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group | 42 | |
7174454914 | gentry | wellbron and well-breed people (class below ht enobility | 43 | |
7174456298 | guild | an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc,. especially one formed for mutual aid or protection | 44 | |
7174459657 | hierarchy | any system of persons or things ranked one above another / government by ecclesiastical rulers | 45 | |
7174461973 | hominids | any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes ( including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans and all their immediate ancestors | 46 | |
7174466399 | homogenous | corresponding in structure because of a common orgin | 47 | |
7174467044 | ideology | the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class or large group | 48 | |
7174468324 | imperial/imperialism | of, like, or pertaining to an empire | 49 | |
7174468891 | indigenous | originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native | 50 | |
7174471185 | infrastructure | the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization | 51 | |
7174472069 | lineage | lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or extraction | 52 | |
7174473231 | linguistic | of or belonging to language | 53 | |
7174474673 | manifest | readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain | 54 | |
7174475735 | maritime | connected with the sea in relation to navigation, shipping, etc. | 55 | |
7174477150 | martial | inclined or disposed to war; warlike | 56 | |
7174478225 | matrilineal | inheriting or determing descent through the female line | 57 | |
7174479871 | mercenary | working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal | 58 | |
7174480689 | monarchy | a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodge in a monarch | 59 | |
7174484711 | monopoly/monopolize | exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that make possible the manipulation of prices | 60 | |
7174487574 | monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God | 61 | |
7174488434 | mystical | of or relating to supernatural agencies, affairs, occurrences, etc. | 62 | |
7174490005 | nation-state | a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality | 63 | |
7174491793 | neo | a combining from meaning "new," "recent," "revived," "modified," used in the formation of compound words | 64 | |
7174494550 | Neolithic | Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000-8000 b.c. in the Middle East | 65 | |
7174498028 | nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads | 66 | |
7174499346 | oligarchy | a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in dominant class or clique government by the few | 67 | |
7174501570 | pantheon | a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120-124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d. | 68 | |
7174505522 | papal/papacy | of or relating to the pope or the papacy | 69 | |
7174506684 | parliament/parliamentary system | the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representative of the counties, cites, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons | 70 | |
7174510725 | pastoral | having the simplicity, charm serenity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas | 71 | |
7174512917 | patriarchal | of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc. | 72 | |
7174515526 | patrilineal | inheriting or determining descent through the male line | 73 | |
7174516238 | patronage | (in ancient Rome) the rights and duties or the position of a patron | 74 | |
7174517492 | peasant | a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank | 75 | |
7174519722 | pharaoh | a title of an ancient Egyptian King | 76 | |
7174521403 | Piety/pious | reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations | 77 | |
7174522427 | polity | a particular form or system of government / the condition of being constituted as a state or other organized community or body | 78 | |
7174524661 | polygamy | the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife at one time | 79 | |
7174527291 | polytheism | the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods | 80 | |
7174528389 | proselytize | to convert or attempt to convert as a proselyte; recruit | 81 | |
7174530647 | provincial | belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local | 82 | |
7174531445 | regent | a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign | 83 | |
7174532682 | republic | a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indrectly by them | 84 | |
7174535553 | rhetoric/rhetoriacl | the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast / the art of science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech | 85 | |
7174538357 | sedentary | To spend much time seated | 86 | |
7174539136 | serf | a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another | 87 | |
7174540705 | Sharia | law, seen as deriving form the Koran, hadith, ijam, and qiyas | 88 | |
7174544578 | Sinification | to sinicize-(to make Chinese in character or bring under Chinese influence | 89 | |
7174545993 | state | the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes | 90 | |
7174547471 | steppe | an extensive plain, especially one with trees | 91 | |
7174549586 | stratification | The placing of something into different groups | 92 | |
7174551399 | Sub-Saharan | of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert | 93 | |
7174552562 | subordinate | placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank | 94 | |
7174554158 | succession | the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events | 95 | |
7174555283 | syncretism | the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing priniciples, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion | 96 | |
7174557409 | textiles | any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting | 97 | |
7174558403 | theocracy | a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or diety's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities | 98 | |
7174566230 | theology | the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of diving things or religious truth; divinity | 99 | |
7174568227 | totalitarian | of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life. | 100 | |
7174572453 | tributary state | a state that is subordinate to a more powerful neighbour. It was form of subordination in pre-modern times. The tributary sent a regular token of submission to the superior power. This was a tribute, a substantial gift of wealth, such as the gold, produce or slaves. | 101 | |
7174573201 | tryanny | arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority | 102 | |
7174574834 | urban/urbanized | of, relating to, or designating a city or town / to make or cause to become urban, as a locality | 103 | |
7174576192 | usurp | to seize and hold ( a position =, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right | 104 | |
7174577355 | vernacular | (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned) | 105 |
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