10494366469 | the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters, When something is believed in completely and undoubtedly, King or Queen | Absolutism | 0 | |
10494363682 | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products, Farming, Growing corn | agriculture | 1 | |
10494379714 | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices, The highest rank, Queen or President | Aristocracy | 2 | |
10494379715 | Before Common Era, Before the year 0 | BCE | 3 | |
10494380144 | Common Era, After the year 0 | CE | 4 | |
10494380145 | prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair, When you are on one side more than another, A democrat in a democrat vs republican debate | Bias | 5 | |
10494380397 | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives., The state officials make the big decisions, | Bureaucracy | 6 | |
10494380398 | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state, When business is first, America | Capitalism | 7 | |
10494382422 | A chiefdom is a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship, and in which formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families or 'houses, Tribes, Indians | Chiefdom | 8 | |
10494382973 | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. A city that is big enough to become a state | City-State | 9 | |
10494382974 | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced, what we live in, America | Civilization | 10 | |
10494383984 | The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, The old days | Classical Era | 11 | |
10494383985 | arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code, A system, Dewey decimal system | Codify | 12 | |
10494384832 | the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area, Making a place to stay | Colonization | 13 | |
10494384833 | concerned with or engaged in commerce, trade, tv commercials | Commercial | 14 | |
10494385160 | Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history which describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least since the early 19th century. | Contemporary Era | 15 | |
10494385161 | place or study in context, | Contextualization | 16 | |
10494386771 | evidence that confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation, Evidence | Corroboration | 17 | |
10494386772 | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations, The stats of people, American demographics | Demography | 18 | |
10494386773 | a line of hereditary rulers of a country, A line of rulers | Dynasty | 19 | |
10494387464 | Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the linear, global, historiographical approach to the time frame after post-classical history, Not to long ago | Early Modern Era | 20 | |
10494387465 | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress, a lot of states ruled by one person | Empire | 21 | |
10494387947 | evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture, judging other cultures and believing yours is the best, religious extremist | Ethnocentrism | 22 | |
10494387948 | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time, a disease breakout in a city | Epidemic | 23 | |
10494388192 | A forager is one who forages, i. e., looks for forage. Forager may refer to: A hunter-gatherer, someone who hunts or gathers | Forager | 24 | |
10494388193 | the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale, a monopoly, google | Globalization | 25 | |
10494388194 | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority, Social status' | Hierarchy | 26 | |
10494389041 | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force, military leadership | Imperialism | 27 | |
10494389435 | A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country, a person who is hired to be a slave | Indentured Servant | 28 | |
10494389436 | relatinɡ to or occurring between different regions, merging regions | Interregional | 29 | |
10494389437 | a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen, somewhere ruled by a king or queen, england | Kingdom | 30 | |
10494389754 | a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade, a trader, flea market workers | Merchant | 31 | |
10494389755 | a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks, today | Modern Era | 32 | |
10494390038 | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God, believing in one god, Christianity | Monotheism | 33 | |
10494393350 | a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory, a large group of people untied together | Nation | 34 | |
10494393351 | relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed, when new weapons and tools were made | Neolithic | 35 | |
10494393613 | the quality of being noble in character, mind, birth, or rank. chivarly | Nobility | 36 | |
10494393614 | a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock, someone who moves from place to place, homeless people | Nomad | 37 | |
10494393975 | (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world, a worldwide disease | Pandemic | 38 | |
10494393976 | the office or authority of the Pope, when the pope rules | Papacy | 39 | |
10494394728 | (especially of land or a farm) used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle., a farm | Pastoral | 40 | |
10494394729 | relating to or characteristic of a patriarch, royalty | Patriarchal | 41 | |
10494394730 | Periodization is a form or resistance training that may be defined as strategic implementation of specific training phases, strategy of phases | Periodization | 42 | |
10494395024 | the belief in or worship of more than one god, Believing in more than one god, buddhism | Polytheism | 43 | |
10494395025 | Post-classical history (also called the Post-Antiquity era, Post-Ancient Era, or Pre-Modern Era) is a periodization commonly used by the school of "world history" instead of Middle Ages (Medieval), which is roughly synonymous. ... Gunpowder was originally developed in China during the post-classical era, after the classical era | Post-Classical Era | 44 | |
10494395354 | Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism, today | Post-Modern Era | 45 | |
10494395355 | relating to or denoting the period before written records, before written records | Prehistoric | 46 | |
10494395356 | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system, the overthrow of the government | Revolution | 47 | |
10494396375 | in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town, the country side | Rural | 48 | |
10494396376 | a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented, someone who keeps records, coroner | Scribe | 49 | |
10494396638 | Agriculture as practiced in one place by a settled farmer in which fields are not rotated is called sedentary agriculture. The term was used for primitive agriculturists in tropical Africa who farmed the same piece of land indefinitely in contrast to shifting cultivation, not rotating crops | Sedentary Agriculture | 50 | |
10494396639 | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate, someone who lives and works on a lords estate | Serf | 51 | |
10494396827 | a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them, someone who is owned by someone else | Slave | 52 | |
10494396828 | a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole, a system of organization based off class | Socialism | 53 | |
10494396829 | the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time, how something is | State (not the US states) | 54 | |
10494397483 | A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state, or, especially in common American English, has no government. ... Some political philosophies, particularly anarchism, consider the state an unwelcome institution and stateless societies the ideal, a anarchist state | Stateless society | 55 | |
10494397484 | the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought, combining thoughts | Syncretism | 56 | |
10494399170 | combination or composition, in particular, putting things together | Synthesis | 57 | |
10494399171 | a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia., the country and farmland | Steppes | 58 | |
10494399665 | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town. | Urban | 59 |
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