2106656984 | Agriculture | Farming | 0 | |
2106656985 | Agrarian | Having to do with farming | 1 | |
2106656986 | Bands/Clans | Small groups of families living and acting cooperatively | 2 | |
2106656987 | Barbarian | A member of a community not belonging to a civilization | 3 | |
2106656988 | Bureaucracy | A large, complex organization composed of appointed officials | 4 | |
2106656989 | Civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 5 | |
2106656990 | City-states | A political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages | 6 | |
2106656991 | Classical age | 600 BC-600 AD | 7 | |
2106656992 | Domestication | Selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans. | 8 | |
2106656993 | Economy | A financial and social system of how resources flow through society, from production, to distribution, to consumption. | 9 | |
2106656994 | Egalitarian | Male and female have equal rites,duties, and governing power | 10 | |
2106656995 | Emperor | The ruler of an empire | 11 | |
2106656996 | Empire | A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler | 12 | |
2106656997 | Feudalism | A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land | 13 | |
2106656998 | Foraging | The act of searching for food and provisions | 14 | |
2106656999 | Hierarchy | A group or system in which positions of power are ranked, usually from lowest to highest | 15 | |
2106657000 | Hierarchical | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. | 16 | |
2106657001 | Hunter-Gatherer | Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods | 17 | |
2106657002 | Irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land | 18 | |
2106657003 | Monarchy | A government ruled by a king or queen | 19 | |
2106657004 | Monotheism | Belief in one god | 20 | |
2106657005 | Neolithic | A period when humans first started to learn to plant crops and domesticate animals for their food, instead of hunting and gathering | 21 | |
2106657006 | Nomadic | Moving from place to place with no permanent home | 22 | |
2106657007 | Pastoral communities | Specialized in the domestication of animal | 23 | |
2106657008 | Paleolithic | (Old Stone Age) a long period of human development before the development of agriculture | 24 | |
2106657009 | Philosophy | The pursuit of truth and understanding through the application of human reason | 25 | |
2106657010 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 26 | |
2106657011 | River Valley | first civilizations are all located here (Nile, Tigris & Euphrates, Indus and Hwang He) | 27 | |
2106657012 | Sedentary | Remaining in one place | 28 | |
2106657013 | Settlement | A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. | 29 | |
2106657014 | Subsistence | Farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced. | 30 | |
2106657015 | Surplus | A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded | 31 | |
2106657016 | Sustenance | Something that provides nourishment; food needed to live | 32 | |
2106657017 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 33 | |
2106657018 | Traditional | Economic system that relies on habit, custom, or ritual to decide questions of production and consumption of goods and services | 34 | |
2106657019 | Urbanization | An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. | 35 | |
2106657020 | Vassals | Lesser lords who controlled the divided lands of the nobles in feudalism. | 36 |
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