300. vocab throughout the year
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| 23970387 | reincarnation | The successive attachment of the soul to some animate form according to merits earned in previous lives | 0 | |
| 23970388 | afterlife | also called future life. life after death | 1 | |
| 23970389 | autonomy | independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions | 2 | |
| 23970390 | bureaucracy; civil service | the body of officials and administrators of a government or government department | 3 | |
| 23970391 | caste system | a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity | 4 | |
| 23970392 | citizen | a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection | 5 | |
| 23970393 | conversion | the act or process of converting; state of being converted | 6 | |
| 23970394 | deity | a god or goddess | 7 | |
| 23970395 | domesticated plants and animals | to convert animals to domestic uses; tame | 8 | |
| 23970396 | elites | the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons | 9 | |
| 23970397 | empire | a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress or other powerful sovereign or government | 10 | |
| 23970398 | feudal | of, pertaining to, or like the feudal system, or its polical, military, social, and economic structure | 11 | |
| 23970399 | filial | or, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter | 12 | |
| 23970400 | hunting-gathering | searching for food in the early ages | 13 | |
| 23970401 | ideology | the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc. that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group | 14 | |
| 23970402 | imperial | of, like, or pertaining to an empire | 15 | |
| 23970403 | missionaries | a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work | 16 | |
| 23970404 | monasticism | a monastic system, condition, or mode of life | 17 | |
| 23970405 | monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God | 18 | |
| 23970406 | neolithic | belonging to or remaining form an earlier era | 19 | |
| 23970407 | nobility | the noble class or the body of nobles in a country | 20 | |
| 23970408 | nomadic | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of nomads | 21 | |
| 23970409 | nun | a woman member of a religious order, esp. one bound by bows of poverty, chastity, and obedience | 22 | |
| 23970410 | pagan | one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks | 23 | |
| 23970411 | pantheon | a temple dedicated to all gods | 24 | |
| 23970412 | pastoral | having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas | 25 | |
| 23970413 | patriarchy | a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family | 26 | |
| 23970414 | pilgrims | a traveler or wanderer | 27 | |
| 23970415 | polytheism | the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods | 28 | |
| 23970416 | priest | a person whose office it is to perform religious rites and esp. to make sacrificial offerings | 29 | |
| 23970417 | priesthood | the condition or office of a priest | 30 | |
| 23970418 | sedentary | characterized by or requiring a sitting posture | 31 | |
| 23970419 | slavery | the condition of a slave; bondage | 32 | |
| 23970420 | social hierarchy | any system of persons or things ranked one above another | 33 | |
| 23970421 | stratification | the act or an instance of stratifying | 34 | |
| 23970422 | urban | of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town | 35 | |
| 23970423 | celibacy | abstention from sexual relations | 36 | |
| 23970424 | city-states | a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies | 37 | |
| 23970425 | diasporas | the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity | 38 | |
| 23970426 | epidemic disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people | 39 | |
| 23970427 | guilds | an organization of persons with related interests, goals, et. | 40 | |
| 23970428 | inequality | the condition of being unequal; lack of equality | 41 | |
| 23970429 | infidel | a person who does not accept a particular faith, esp. Christianity | 42 | |
| 23970430 | schism | division or disunion, esp. into mutually opposed parties | 43 | |
| 23970431 | sovereignty | the quality or state of being sovereign | 44 | |
| 23970432 | syncretism | the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion | 45 | |
| 23970433 | technology | the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment | 46 | |
| 23970434 | textiles | any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting | 47 | |
| 23970435 | caravel | a small Spanish or Protuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages and later | 48 | |
| 23970436 | conquistadors | one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century | 49 | |
| 23970437 | excommunication | the state of being excommunicated | 50 | |
| 23970438 | manumission | the act of manumitting | 51 | |
| 23970439 | protestant | any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church | 52 | |
| 23970440 | renaissance | the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning on Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world | 53 | |
| 23970441 | sacrament | the consecrated elements of the Eucharist, esp. the bread | 54 | |
| 23970442 | tariffs | an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports | 55 | |
| 23970443 | usury | the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest | 56 | |
| 23970444 | cash crop | any crop that is considered easily marketable, as wheat or cotton | 57 | |
| 23970445 | colonialism | the control of governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people | 58 | |
| 23970446 | extraterritoriality | immunity from the jurisdiciton of a nation, granted to foreign diplomatic officials,foreign warships | 59 | |
| 23970447 | imperialism | the policy of extending the rule or authority of a empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies | 60 | |
| 23970448 | industrialization | to introduce industry into an area on a large scale | 61 | |
| 23970449 | liberalism | the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude | 62 | |
| 23970450 | marxism | the political and economic philosophy of karl Marx | 63 | |
| 23970451 | middle class | a class of people intermediate between the classes of higher and lower social rank or standing; the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like | 64 | |
| 23970452 | modernization | to make modern | 65 | |
| 23970453 | monopoly | exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices | 66 | |
| 23970454 | nation-state | a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality | 67 | |
| 23970455 | natural rights | any right that exists by virtue of natural law | 68 | |
| 23970456 | revolution | an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed | 69 | |
| 23970457 | sepoys | a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, esp. of the British | 70 | |
| 23970458 | socialism | a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc | 71 | |
| 23970459 | suffrage | the right to vote, esp. in a political election | 72 | |
| 23970460 | syncretism | the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion | 73 | |
| 23970461 | victorian | or or pertaining to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign | 74 | |
| 23970462 | consumerism | a modern movement for the protection of the consumer against useless, inferior, or dangerous products | 75 | |
| 23970463 | fascism | a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc | 76 | |
| 23970464 | five-year plan | any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, esp | 77 | |
| 23970465 | genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group | 78 | |
| 23970466 | partition | a division into or distribution in portions or shares | 79 | |
| 23970467 | suburbanize | to give suburban chararteristics to | 80 | |
| 23970468 | treaties | a formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations | 81 | |
| 23970469 | communism | a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state | 82 |
