291561044 | Hunting-Gathering/Foraging | System of food production for prehistoric peoples. Involves hunting animals and gathering foods grown in the wild. | 0 | |
291561045 | Domesticated Plants and Animals | Animals and plants that have been adopted by humans to raise. | 1 | |
291561046 | Sedentary | staying in one place | 2 | |
291561047 | Nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | 3 | |
291561048 | Pastoral | relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | 4 | |
291561049 | Neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period. | 5 | |
291561050 | Deity | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | 6 | |
291561051 | Pantheon | (antiquity) a temple to all the gods | 7 | |
291561052 | Pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. | 8 | |
291561053 | Caste System | a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society | 9 | |
291561054 | Priest | a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites | 10 | |
291561055 | Nun | a woman who has taken a sacred vow to devote her life to prayer and service to the church | 11 | |
291561056 | Monotheism | belief in a single god | 12 | |
291561057 | Polytheism | belief in many gods | 13 | |
291561058 | Celibacy | The state of one who has chosen to remain unmarried for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven in order to give himself entirely to God and to the service of his people. | 14 | |
291561059 | Monasticism | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith | 15 | |
291561060 | Afterlife | life after death | 16 | |
291561061 | Reincarnation | embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form) | 17 | |
291561062 | Missionaries | people who work to spread their religious beliefs | 18 | |
291561063 | Pilgrims | people who take long journeys for religious reasons | 19 | |
291561064 | Filial | designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation | 20 | |
291561065 | Kinship Groups | Early agricultural and technological development (about 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE) - Small groups of settlers grew into kinship-based villages that practiced both crop cultivation and domestication of animals. Tools and inventions helped villages to stabilize and eventually grow. | 21 | |
291561066 | Conversion | a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | 22 | |
291561067 | Priesthood | the body of ordained religious practitioners | 23 | |
291561068 | Sacred Texts | books that give religious guidance to their respective groups Bible, Qu'ran, and Tora | 24 | |
291561069 | Imperial | relating to or associated with an empire | 25 | |
291561070 | Feudal | relating to a system in which people (called "vassals") were given protection and the use of land, in return for loyalty, payments, and services to a lord | 26 | |
291561071 | The State | A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority. | 27 | |
291561072 | Empire | a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | 28 | |
291561073 | Ideology | an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation | 29 | |
291561074 | Bureaucracy | system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 30 | |
291561075 | Civil Service | the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government | 31 | |
291561076 | Social Hierarchy | The division of society by rank or class | 32 | |
291561077 | Stratification | the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | 33 | |
291561078 | Inequity | partiality that is not fair or equitable | 34 | |
291561079 | Patriarchy | a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | 35 | |
291561080 | Slavery | the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages | 36 | |
291561081 | Urban | relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area | 37 | |
291561082 | Tax Revenue | government income due to taxation | 38 | |
291561083 | Nobility | class of people having high birth or rank | 39 | |
291561084 | Elites | A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status. | 40 | |
291561085 | Autonomy | immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | 41 | |
291561086 | Citizen | a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | 42 | |
291561087 | Trade Goods | products such as animals and crops were traded between civilizations | 43 | |
291561088 | Role of Nomads in Trade | nomads spread ideas from far away lands and traded new technology | 44 |
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