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| 2759723911 | Diffusion | (Noun) the transmission of elements or features of one culture to another | 0 | |
| 2759723912 | Syncretism | (Noun) the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion | 1 | |
| 2759723913 | Imperialism | (Noun) the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies | 2 | |
| 2759723914 | Empire | (Noun) a government under an emperor or empress | 3 | |
| 2759723915 | Core Area | (Noun) an area that centers an urban center | 4 | |
| 2759723916 | Periphery | (Noun) the external boundary of any surface of area | 5 | |
| 2759723917 | Bureaucracy | (Noun) a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives | 6 | |
| 2759723918 | Infrastructure | (Noun) the basic underlying framework or features of a system or organization | 7 | |
| 2759723919 | First Wave Civilizations | (Noun ) civilizations that emerged between 3500 B.C.E. - 500 B.C.E | 8 | |
| 2759723920 | Second Wave Civilizations | (Noun) civilizations that emerged between 500 B.C.E. - 500 C.E. | 9 | |
| 2759723921 | Third Wave Civilizations | (Noun) civilizations that emerged between 500-1500 C.E. | 10 | |
| 2759723922 | State-Building | (Noun) countries attempting to build, or re-build a weak, post-conflict or failing state | 11 | |
| 2759723923 | State | (Noun) a politically unified people occupying a definite territory | 12 | |
| 2759723924 | City-State | (Noun) a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies | 13 | |
| 2759723925 | Stateless Societies | (Noun) a society that is not governed by a state, has no government | 14 | |
| 2759723926 | Agricultural Societies | (Noun) a society devoted to the improvement in agriculture | 15 | |
| 2759723927 | Pastoral Societies | (Noun) a society in which animals are domesticated and raised for food and pastures | 16 | |
| 2759723928 | Nomadic | (Adjective) of, relating to, or the characteristic of nomads | 17 | |
| 2759723929 | Theatre State | (Noun) a political state directed towards the performance of drama and ritual rather than more conventional ends such as welfare | 18 | |
| 2759723930 | Feudalism | (Noun) the dominant social system in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants 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 | 19 | |
| 2759723931 | Serf | (Noun) a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another, a slave | 20 | |
| 2759723932 | Maritime | (Adjective) bordering on the sea, connected with the sea in relation to navigation, shipping, etc. | 21 | |
| 2759723933 | Consumerism | (Noun) the protection of promotion of the interests of consumers | 22 | |
| 2759723934 | Forced Labor Systems | (Noun) hard physical labor that someone is forced to do | 23 | |
| 2759723935 | Hyperurbanization | (Noun) a rapid and unchecked influx of immigrants | 24 | |
| 2759723936 | Manorialism | (Noun) the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the late Roman Empire, slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy | 25 | |
| 2759723937 | Law Codes | (Noun) codes of laws adopted by a state or nation | 26 | |
| 2759723938 | Monarchy | (Noun) a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch, supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person | 27 | |
| 2759723939 | Succession | (Noun) the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events | 28 | |
| 2759723940 | Authoritarian | (Adjective) favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom | 29 | |
| 2759723941 | Revolutionary | 1. (Adjective) engaged in or promoting political revolution 2. (Noun) person who works for or engages in political revolution | 30 | |
| 2759723942 | Reactionary | (Adjective) (of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform | 31 | |
| 2759723943 | Cultural Hearth | (Noun) any place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication of plants and animals | 32 | |
| 2759723944 | Religious Tradition | (Noun) rituals that are specific to a certain religion | 33 | |
| 2759723945 | Ideological Tradition | (Noun) traditions that are specific to a certain philosophy | 34 | |
| 2759723946 | Zoroastrianism | (Noun) one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions; founded by the prophet Zoroaster in Ancient Iran approximately 3500 years ago | 35 | |
| 2759723947 | Hinduism | (Noun) the religion of the majority of the people in India and Nepal; has no single founder, and no commonly agreed set of teachings | 36 | |
| 2759723948 | Buddhism | (Noun) a religion that originated in India by Buddha; holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that to say this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject to | 37 | |
| 2759723949 | Islam | (Noun) the religious faith of Muslims; based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran; the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal God, Allah | 38 | |
| 2759723950 | Christianity | (Noun) the Christian religion; including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches; the religion based in the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices | 39 | |
| 2761046378 | Confucianism | (Noun) the system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples; stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct | 40 | |
| 2761049646 | Animism | (Noun) the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possesses souls | 41 | |
| 2761051573 | Secular | (Adjective) of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal | 42 | |
| 2761054012 | Hellenism/ Hellenistic | (Adjective) of or relating to the Greeks or their language, culture, etc., after the time of Alexander the Great, when Greeks characteristics were modified by foreign elements | 43 | |
| 2761060757 | Social Hierarchy | 1. (Noun) any system of persons or things ranked one above another 2. (Noun) an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in successive ranks or orders | 44 | |
| 2761064389 | Technology | (Noun) machinery and equipment developed from scientific knowledge | 45 | |
| 2761068391 | Raw Materials/ Manufactured Goods | 1. (Noun) the basic material from which a product is made 2. (Noun) goods made by manual labor or machinery; especially on large scales | 46 | |
| 2761070965 | Demographic Shift | (Noun) a change in the statistics of a population | 47 | |
| 2761071614 | Global Context/ Perspective | 1. (Noun) an issue looked at from a worldwide perspective 2. (Noun) a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view | 48 | |
| 2761073683 | Imperial Expansion | (Noun) when an imperialistic country expands by taking over other countries or territories | 49 | |
| 2761074804 | Gender | (Noun) the characteristics that differentiate between masculinity and femeninity | 50 | |
| 2761076548 | Patriarchy | (Noun) a system or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line | 51 | |
| 2761078569 | Elites | (Noun) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons | 52 | |
| 2761079480 | Peasants | (Noun) an uneducated, unsophisticated, coarse, boorish person of little financial person | 53 | |
| 2761081430 | Aristocracy/ Nobility | 1. (Noun) a class of persons holding exceptional title and privilege 2. (Noun) the quality of being noble | 54 | |
| 2761085526 | Proletariat | (Noun) the class of wage earners, especially those who earn their livings by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class | 55 | |
| 2761087124 | Urbanization | (Noun) a population shift from rural urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change | 56 | |
| 2761090174 | Matrilineal or Patrilineal Kinship | (Noun) the relationship by descent through the male or female lines | 57 | |
| 2761091732 | Clan Groups | (Noun) large groups of people who are related biologically or related in interest | 58 | |
| 2761092061 | Caste/ Caste System | (Noun) class structure determined by birth | 59 | |
| 2761092062 | Diaspora | (Noun) jews living outside of Israel | 60 | |
| 2761092380 | Migration | (Noun) the movement from one place to another, usually seasonal | 61 | |
| 2761092610 | Regional Trade | (Noun) exchange of goods or services between members or parties of the same region | 62 | |
| 2761093416 | Inter-regional Trade | (Noun) exchange of goods or services between parties or members from two or more regions | 63 | |
| 2761093869 | Entrepot/ Trade Entrepot | (Noun) a commercial center where goods are received for distribution, shipment, or repackaging | 64 | |
| 2761093870 | Luxury Goods | (Noun) highly desired non-essential goods, usually expensive/ for the wealthy | 65 | |
| 2761094089 | Commodities | (Noun) a useful or valuable thing | 66 | |
| 2761094095 | Bullion and Specie | 1. (Noun) gold and silver as a raw material 2. (Noun) coined money | 67 | |
| 2761094679 | Coercive Labor | (Noun) the condition in which a person is owned by another person as property and is under the owner's control forcefully | 68 | |
| 2761095029 | Slavery | (Noun) the state of being a slave; enslavement; forced labor | 69 | |
| 2761095401 | Irrigation | (Noun) the watering of land to prepare for agriculture | 70 | |
| 2761095578 | Metallurgy | (Noun) science and technology concerned with the properties of metals, their production and their purification. | 71 | |
| 2761095755 | Economic Interaction | (Noun) the idea that well-designed, consistent and regularly audited interactions lead to increased productivity | 72 | |
| 2761096175 | Economic/ Political Prominence | (Noun) the study of how a country is managed or governed, taking both political and economic factors in | 73 | |
| 2761096616 | Economic System | (Noun) method used by a society to produce and distribute goods and services | 74 | |
| 2761097456 | Political Change | (Noun) when rulers in a country lose power or the type of government in the country changes | 75 | |
| 2761097457 | Political Structure | (Noun) the way a country's political system shapes, promotes, checks, or absorbs the challenges it confronts from organized civil society | 76 | |
| 2761097830 | Trade System | (Noun) a set of specific rules or criteria that determines entry and exit points for a given fairness | 77 | |
| 2761098152 | Nation-State | (Noun) a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent | 78 | |
| 2761098370 | Global Process | (Noun) events or changes that affect the planet as a whole | 79 |
