| 2737492975 | BCE | Before Common Era | 0 | |
| 2737493132 | CE | Common Era | 1 | |
| 2737493355 | Abdicate | (of a monarch) renounce one's throne (step down) fail to fulfill or undertake (a responsibility or duty). | 2 | |
| 2737493356 | Accession | the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president. | 3 | |
| 2737493357 | Aesthetic | a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement. | 4 | |
| 2737493552 | Agrarian | of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. | 5 | |
| 2737493553 | Amenities | desirable or useful features or facilities of a building or place. | 6 | |
| 2737493554 | Anarchy | a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. | 7 | |
| 2737493905 | Animism | the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. | 8 | |
| 2737493906 | Antiquity | the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages great age | 9 | |
| 2737493907 | Appeasement | pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands. relieve or satisfy (a demand or a feeling). | 10 | |
| 2737495299 | Aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices. | 11 | |
| 2737495300 | Asceticism | severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. | 12 | |
| 2737495525 | Assimilate | take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully. cause (something) to resemble; liken. | 13 | |
| 2737495526 | Authoritarian | favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. | 14 | |
| 2737495527 | Autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. | 15 | |
| 2737495528 | Barbarism | absence of culture and civilization. extreme cruelty or brutality. | 16 | |
| 2737495749 | Bureaucracy/Bureaucrats | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 17 | |
| 2737495750 | City-State | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 18 | |
| 2737495751 | Civic | of or relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal. | 19 | |
| 2737495752 | Classical | of or relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture. (typically of a form of art) regarded as representing an exemplary standard; traditional and long-established in form or style. | 20 | |
| 2737496077 | Colonial | of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colonies. | 21 | |
| 2737496078 | Commerce | the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale | 22 | |
| 2737496079 | Communal | shared by all members of a community; for common use. | 23 | |
| 2737496510 | Concubine | (in polygamous societies) a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives. | 24 | |
| 2737496511 | Conscription | compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. | 25 | |
| 2737496512 | Cosmopolitan | familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures. | 26 | |
| 2737497991 | Coup | a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. a notable or successful stroke or move. | 27 | |
| 2737497992 | Demography/Demographic | the composition of a particular human population. | 28 | |
| 2737498116 | Despot | a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way. | 29 | |
| 2737498117 | Diaspora | Jews living outside Israel. the dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel. the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. | 30 | |
| 2737498118 | Dissent | hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed. the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held. | 31 | |
| 2737498302 | Dissident | a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state. | 32 | |
| 2737498303 | Domestic/Domesticate | existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international. | 33 | |
| 2737498304 | Dynasty/Dynastic | a line of hereditary rulers of a country. | 34 | |
| 2737498464 | Edict | an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority. | 35 | |
| 2737498465 | Egalitarian | of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities | 36 | |
| 2737498466 | Elite | a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities. | 37 | |
| 2737498467 | Emigrate | Move out of, away from | 38 | |
| 2737500203 | Epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation | 39 | |
| 2737522458 | Ethnocentric | evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture. | 40 | |
| 2737522459 | Feudalism | the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. | 41 | |
| 2737522463 | Genocide | the killing of a large group of people, usually because of their religion or race | 42 | |
| 2737523321 | Gentry | people of good social position, specifically (in the UK) the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth. | 43 | |
| 2737523322 | Guild | a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power. an association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal. | 44 | |
| 2737523323 | Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 45 | |
| 2737523324 | Hominids | a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors. | 46 | |
| 2737523661 | Homogenous | of the same genous having the same relation, relative position, or structure, in particular. | 47 | |
| 2737523909 | Ideology | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. | 48 | |
| 2737523910 | Imperial | of or relating to an empire. | 49 | |
| 2737524170 | Indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. | 50 | |
| 2737524171 | INfrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | 51 | |
| 2737524172 | Lineage | lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree. | 52 | |
| 2737524402 | Linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics. | 53 | |
| 2737524900 | manifest | display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate. | 54 | |
| 2737524901 | maritime | having to do w the ocean | 55 | |
| 2737524902 | martial | of or appropriate to war; warlike. | 56 | |
| 2737524906 | matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 57 | |
| 2737525204 | mercenary | Soldier hired to fight for foreign army | 58 | |
| 2737525205 | monarchy | a form of government in which sovereignty is actually or nominally embodied in one or several individual(s) reigning until death or abdication | 59 | |
| 2737525206 | monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. | 60 | |
| 2737525207 | monotheism | believing that there is only 1 god | 61 | |
| 2737525526 | mystical | of or relating to mystics or religious mysticism. | 62 | |
| 2737525527 | nation-state | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. | 63 | |
| 2737525528 | neo | new. | 64 | |
| 2737525529 | neolithic | of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. | 65 | |
| 2737525530 | nomadic | anything that involves moving around a lot | 66 | |
| 2737525723 | oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. | 67 | |
| 2737525724 | pantheon | all the gods of a people or religion collectively. | 68 | |
| 2737525725 | papal/papacy | the office or authority of the pope. | 69 | |
| 2737525933 | parliament | a system of democratic governance of a state in which the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from, and is held accountable to, the legislature (parliament); the executive and legislative branches are thus interconnected | 70 | |
| 2737525934 | pastoral | (especially of land or a farm) used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle. (in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance. | 71 | |
| 2737525935 | patriarchal | of, relating to, or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men. | 72 | |
| 2737526098 | patrilineal | of, relating to, or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line. | 73 | |
| 2737526099 | patronage | the support given by a patron. the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges. | 74 | |
| 2737526100 | peasant | a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries). | 75 | |
| 2737526101 | pharaoh | a ruler in ancient Egypt. | 76 | |
| 2737526265 | piety | the quality of being religious or reverent. | 77 | |
| 2737526266 | polity | a form or process of civil government or constitution. an organized society; a state as a political entity. | 78 | |
| 2737526267 | polygamy | marriage that involves more than two people | 79 | |
| 2737526465 | polytheism | believing that there is more than one god, in multiple gods | 80 | |
| 2737526927 | proselytize | convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another. | 81 | |
| 2737526928 | provincial | of or concerning a province of a country or empire. | 82 | |
| 2737526929 | regent | a person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor or is absent or incapacitated. a member of the governing body of a university or other academic institution. | 83 | |
| 2737526930 | republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. | 84 | |
| 2737526931 | rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 85 | |
| 2737527207 | sedentary | (of a person) tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive. | 86 | |
| 2737527208 | serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. | 87 | |
| 2737527209 | sharia | (Arabic: شريعة (IPA: [ʃaˈriːʕa]), is the Islamic legal system derived from the religious precepts of Islam, | 88 | |
| 2737527362 | sinification | a process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society. | 89 | |
| 2737527364 | state | a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. | 90 | |
| 2737527363 | steppe | a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia. | 91 | |
| 2737527538 | stratification | a system or formation of layers, classes, or categories. | 92 | |
| 2737527539 | sub-saharan | the part of the continent of Africa that is below the Sahara desert/region | 93 | |
| 2737527666 | subordinate | lower in rank or position. | 94 | |
| 2737527667 | succession | the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc. | 95 | |
| 2737527668 | syncretism | the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language. | 96 | |
| 2737527669 | textiles | a type of cloth or woven fabric. | 97 | |
| 2737528156 | theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. the commonwealth of Israel from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as King. | 98 | |
| 2737528157 | theology | the study of the nature of God and religious belief. religious beliefs and theory when systematically developed. | 99 | |
| 2737528158 | totalitarian | political system in which the state holds total control over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. | 100 | |
| 2737528332 | tributary state | a state that is subordinate to a more powerful neighbour. It was a form of subordination in pre-modern times. The tributary sent a regular token of submission (tribute) to the superior power. | 101 | |
| 2737528333 | tyranny | the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler | 102 | |
| 2737528334 | urban | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town. | 103 | |
| 2737528335 | usurp | take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force. | 104 | |
| 2737528604 | vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 105 |
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