4781973380 | BCE | Before Common Era | 0 | |
4781973381 | CE | Common Era | 1 | |
4781973382 | Abdicate | to leave the position of king or queen; failing to fulfill duties | 2 | |
4781973383 | Accession | The act of coming into power; adding | 3 | |
4781973384 | Aesthetic | the philosophical theory governing the idea of beauty at a given time and place | 4 | |
4781973385 | Agrarian | relating to land | 5 | |
4781973386 | Amenities | an agreeable manner | 6 | |
4781973387 | Anarchy | Without or lack of government control or law | 7 | |
4781973388 | Animism | Belief that every natural object and the universe have a soul | 8 | |
4781973389 | Antiquity | being ancient | 9 | |
4781973390 | Appeasement | state of peace and quiet; to satisfy | 10 | |
4781973391 | Aristocracy | the highest rank in a society | 11 | |
4781973392 | Asceticism | severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. | 12 | |
4781973393 | Assimilate | to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group or nation; adapt or adjust | 13 | |
4781973394 | Authoritarian | favoring complete obedience to authority instead of individual freedom | 14 | |
4781973395 | Autocracy | government in which one person has uncontrolled authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch | 15 | |
4781973396 | barbarism | uncivilized, wild, savage state | 16 | |
4781973397 | Bureaucracy | government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials | 17 | |
4781973399 | City-state | a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies (example: Luxembourg) | 18 | |
4781973400 | Civic | Relating to city, citizenship | 19 | |
4781973401 | Classical | conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art or other systems influenced by them | 20 | |
4781973402 | Colonial | the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people | 21 | |
4781973403 | Commerce | an interchange of goods or commodities | 22 | |
4781973404 | Communal | belonging to the people of a community; shared or participated in by the public | 23 | |
4781973405 | Concubine | a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married | 24 | |
4781973406 | Conscription | enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft | 25 | |
4781973407 | Cosmopolitan | free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments | 26 | |
4781973408 | Coup | a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move | 27 | |
4781973409 | Demography | the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations | 28 | |
4781973410 | Despot | a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power | 29 | |
4781973411 | Diaspora | any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily | 30 | |
4781973412 | Dissent | to disagree with the methods, goals, etc., of a political party or government; take an opposing view | 31 | |
4781973414 | Domestic | devoted to home life or household affairs | 32 | |
4781973415 | Dynasty | a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group | 33 | |
4781973416 | Edict | an order/law issued by a sovereign or other authority | 34 | |
4781973417 | Egalitarian | characterized by belief in the equality of all people | 35 | |
4781973418 | Elite | persons of the highest class | 36 | |
4781973419 | Emigrate | to leave one's country or region to settle in another | 37 | |
4781973420 | Epic | heroic; majestic; impressively great; of unusually great size or extent | 38 | |
4781973421 | Ethnocentric | belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture; view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one's own | 39 | |
4781973422 | Feudalism | system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands | 40 | |
4781973423 | Genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group | 41 | |
4781973424 | Gentry | those who are not members of the nobility but are entitled to a coat of arms; the class below the nobility | 42 | |
4781973425 | Guild | an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc.; any of various medieval associations, as of merchants or artisans, organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members | 43 | |
4781973426 | Hierachy | any system of persons or things ranked one above another | 44 | |
4781973427 | Hominids | Creature with human-like charateristics | 45 | |
4781973428 | Homogeneous | of the same kind; alike | 46 | |
4781973429 | Ideology | the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group | 47 | |
4781973430 | Imperialism | extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies | 48 | |
4781973431 | Indigenous | originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native | 49 | |
4781973432 | Infrastructure | the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools | 50 | |
4781973433 | Lineage | the line of descendants of a particular ancestor; family | 51 | |
4781973434 | Linguistic | of or belonging to language | 52 | |
4781973435 | Manifest | readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain; to prove | 53 | |
4781973436 | Maritime | connected with the sea in relation to navigation, shipping, etc | 54 | |
4781973437 | Martial | inclined or disposed to war; warlike; associated with war or the armed forces | 55 | |
4781973438 | Matrilineal | inheriting or determining descent through the female line | 56 | |
4781973439 | Mercenary | working or acting merely for money or other reward; hired to serve in a foreign army | 57 | |
4781973440 | Monarchy | supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person | 58 | |
4781973441 | Monopoly | exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices | 59 | |
4781973442 | Monotheism | belief that there is only one God | 60 | |
4781973443 | Mystical | relating to supernatural agencies, affairs, occurrences, etc; spiritually symbolic; mysterious | 61 | |
4781973444 | Nation-state | a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality | 62 | |
4781973445 | neo | a combining form meaning "new," "recent," "revived," "modified" | 63 | |
4781973446 | Neolithic | of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age; commonly thought to have begun c9000-8000 b.c. in the Middle East | 64 | |
4781973447 | Nomadic | a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place | 65 | |
4781973448 | Oligarchy | a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few | 66 | |
4781973449 | Pantheon | a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation | 67 | |
4781973450 | Papacy | the system of ecclesiastical government in which the pope is recognized as the supreme head | 68 | |
4781973451 | Parliament | a legislative body in any of various other countries | 69 | |
4781973452 | Pastoral | pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic | 70 | |
4781973453 | Patriarchal | relating to a government ruled by men | 71 | |
4781973454 | Patrilineal | inheriting or determining descent through the male line | 72 | |
4781973455 | Patronage | the control of or power to make appointments to government jobs or the power to grant other political favors | 73 | |
4781973456 | Peasant | a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank or are considered coarse, unsophisticated, uneducated or of little financial means | 74 | |
4781973457 | pharaoh | any person who uses power or authority to oppress others; tyrant | 75 | |
4781973459 | piety | the act of being pious | 76 | |
4781973460 | Polity | a state or other organized community or body | 77 | |
4781973461 | Polygamy | the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. | 78 | |
4781973462 | Polytheism | belief in more than one god or in many gods | 79 | |
4781973463 | Proselytize | to convert or recruit | 80 | |
4781973464 | Provincial | belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local. having or showing the manners considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province | 81 | |
4781973465 | Regent | a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign | 82 | |
4781973466 | Republic | a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state; supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote | 83 | |
4781973467 | Rhetoric | the study of the effective use of language | 84 | |
4781973468 | Sedentary | abiding in one place; not migratory??? | 85 | |
4781973469 | Serf | slave | 86 | |
4781973470 | Sharia | law, seen as deriving from the Koran (Islam) | 87 | |
4781973471 | Sinification | to make Chinese in character or bring under Chinese influence | 88 | |
4781973472 | State | of or relating to the central civil government or authority | 89 | |
4781973473 | Steppe | an extensive plain, especially one without trees | 90 | |
4781973474 | Stratification | to arrange in a hierarchical order, especially according to graded status levels | 91 | |
4781973475 | Sub-Saharan | Africa south of the Sahara desert | 92 | |
4781973476 | Subordinate | placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank; of less importance; secondary | 93 | |
4781973477 | Succession | the right, act, or process, by which one person succeeds to the office, rank, estate, or the like, of another | 94 | |
4781973478 | Syncretism | the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion | 95 | |
4781973479 | Textiles | any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting | 96 | |
4781973480 | Theocracy | a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler | 97 | |
4781973481 | Theology | the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth | 98 | |
4781973482 | Totalitarian | relating to a centralized government that does not like parties of differing opinion | 99 | |
4781973483 | Tributary State | state that is subordinate to a more powerful neighbor | 100 | |
4781973484 | Tyranny | oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of an absolute ruler | 101 | |
4781973485 | Urban | of, relating to, or designating a city | 102 | |
4781973486 | Urbanize | to make urban | 103 | |
4781973487 | Usurp | to seize and hold a position/power by force or without legal right | 104 | |
4781973488 | Vernacular | expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works | 105 |
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