7277172349 | Advocated | Supported | 0 | |
7277172350 | Agrarian | having to do with farms, farmers, or the use of land | 1 | |
7277172351 | Arable | Suitable for growing crops | 2 | |
7277172352 | Assimilation | One culture merging with another to form a mixed culture | 3 | |
7277172353 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private property and free enterprise. | 4 | |
7277172354 | Civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 5 | |
7277172355 | Condoned | to overlook, forgive. | 6 | |
7277172356 | Demography | Scientific study of human populations. | 7 | |
7277172357 | despot | a ruler with absolute power | 8 | |
7277172358 | dissension | disagreement, sharp difference of opinion | 9 | |
7277172359 | diffuse | to spread or scatter freely | 10 | |
7277172360 | Edict | an official order issued by a person in authority | 11 | |
7277172361 | Embargo | A ban on trade | 12 | |
7277172362 | emigrate | leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another. | 13 | |
7277172363 | eradicate | to wipe out; to destroy | 14 | |
7277172364 | Feudalism | A political system in which a lord owned all the land while the vessels and serfs farmed it | 15 | |
7277172365 | filial | relating to a son or daughter | 16 | |
7277172366 | Gentry | Wealthy landowning class | 17 | |
7277172367 | Hegemony | Dominance of one group over others | 18 | |
7277172368 | Hinder | to delay, to stop or prevent from happening | 19 | |
7277172369 | Hubris | Excessive pride | 20 | |
7277172370 | Infanticide | act of killing an infant | 21 | |
7277172371 | Indigenous | native to a place | 22 | |
7277172372 | Landlocked | completely surrounded by land with no direct access to the ocean | 23 | |
7277172373 | Literacy | ability to read and write | 24 | |
7277172374 | Manorial | A manor or estate owned by a lord | 25 | |
7277172375 | Monotheism | The belief in one God | 26 | |
7277172376 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country | 27 | |
7277172377 | nuclear family | Mother, father and children living as a unit | 28 | |
7277172378 | patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest authority | 29 | |
7277172379 | Polytheism | Belief in more than one god | 30 | |
7277172380 | Precipitate | Unexpected or prematurely | 31 | |
7277172381 | Republic | A government with written laws | 32 | |
7277172382 | sect | A relatively small group that has broken away | 33 | |
7277172383 | Secular | Non-religious | 34 | |
7277172384 | Serfs | A person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times | 35 | |
7277172385 | Socialism | a system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production | 36 | |
7277172386 | Steppe | Sparse, dry, treeless grassland | 37 | |
7277172387 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 38 | |
7277172388 | traditional | Long-established, passed down through one's family | 39 | |
7277172389 | Topography | the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area. | 40 | |
7277172390 | tutelage | protection, or guardianship | 41 | |
7277172391 | Urban | city | 42 |
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