7085694557 | B.C.E | Before The Common Era: The Common Era begins with year 1 in the Gregorian calendar | 0 | |
7085694558 | C.E. | The Common Era: The Common Era begins with year 1 in the Gregorian calendar | 1 | |
7085695208 | Abdicate | to give up or renounce (authority, duties, an office, etc.), especially in a voluntary, public, or formal manner | 2 | |
7085695398 | Accession | the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office | 3 | |
7085695684 | Aesthetic | concerned with beauty | 4 | |
7085697530 | agrarian | relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property | 5 | |
7085698120 | amenities | any feature that provides comfort, convenience, or pleasure | 6 | |
7085701898 | anarchy | a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority | 7 | |
7085701906 | animism | the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls | 8 | |
7085702326 | antiquity | the quality of being ancient | 9 | |
7085702932 | appeasement | to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe | 10 | |
7085703492 | aristocracy | any class or group considered to be superior, as through education, ability, wealth, or social prestige | 11 | |
7085703497 | asceticism | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline | 12 | |
7085703908 | assimilate | to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb | 13 | |
7085706890 | authoritarian | blind submission to authority. | 14 | |
7085706895 | autocracy | government in which one person possesses unlimited power | 15 | |
7085708217 | barbarism | the state, ideas, or behavior which is savagely cruel | 16 | |
7085708408 | bureaucracy/bureaucrats | a body of nonelective government officials | 17 | |
7085708605 | city-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 18 | |
7085708606 | civic | of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or community affairs | 19 | |
7085711561 | classical | of or relating to a form or system considered of first significance in earlier times | 20 | |
7085711562 | colonial | of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony which is a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country | 21 | |
7085711930 | commerce | the activity of buying and selling on a large scale | 22 | |
7085711931 | communal | shared by all members of a community; for common use | 23 | |
7085712198 | concubine | a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married, especially one regarded as socially or sexually subservient; mistress | 24 | |
7085712537 | conscription | compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft | 25 | |
7085712859 | cosmopolitan | Your Aunt Eleanor, who's lived in six different countries and speaks four languages fluently, might be described as cosmopolitan, or comfortable and familiar with different cultures and people. | 26 | |
7085712860 | coup | a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. | 27 | |
7085713908 | demography/demographic | the study of populations in a defined area | 28 | |
7085714171 | despot | a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way. | 29 | |
7085714486 | diaspora | is a large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world | 30 | |
7085714634 | dissent | is to publicly disagree with an official opinion or a decision which a majority decided | 31 | |
7085714635 | dissident | If you are a dissident, you are a person who is rebelling against a government. Dissidents can do their work peacefully or with violence | 32 | |
7085714946 | domestic/domesticate | of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family/no longer wild; tame. | 33 | |
7085714947 | dynasty/dynastic | a line of hereditary rulers of a country. | 34 | |
7085717391 | edict | an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority. | 35 | |
7085720180 | egalitarian | believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. | 36 | |
7085720181 | elite | a select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society. | 37 | |
7085720421 | emigrate | leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another. | 38 | |
7085720422 | epic | heroic or grand in scale or character. | 39 | |
7085720755 | ethnocentric | If you refused to bow when greeting a Japanese friend, insisting on shaking hands instead, you'd be displaying your ethnocentrism, or your belief that your own culture is superior to others. | 40 | |
7085721046 | feudalism | the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. | 41 | |
7085721047 | genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group. | 42 | |
7085722262 | gentry | people of good social position, specifically the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth. | 43 | |
7085724798 | guild | an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection. | 44 | |
7085724799 | hierarchy | any system of persons or things ranked one above another. | 45 | |
7085725054 | hominids | any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors. | 46 | |
7085725055 | homogenous | 47 | ||
7085725231 | ideology | 48 | ||
7085726289 | imperial/imperialism | 49 | ||
7085726721 | indigenous | 50 | ||
7085726931 | infrastructure | 51 | ||
7085726932 | lineage | 52 | ||
7085727182 | linguistic | 53 | ||
7085727183 | manifest | 54 | ||
7085727527 | maritime | 55 | ||
7085727864 | martial | 56 | ||
7085727865 | matrilineal | 57 | ||
7085727897 | mercenary | 58 | ||
7085728948 | monarchy | 59 | ||
7085729146 | monopoly/monopolize | 60 | ||
7085729147 | monotheism | 61 | ||
7085729805 | mystical | 62 | ||
7085730015 | nation-state | 63 | ||
7085730016 | neo | 64 | ||
7085730783 | Neolithic | 65 | ||
7085730784 | nomadic | 66 | ||
7085730785 | oligarchy | 67 | ||
7085731432 | pantheon | 68 | ||
7085731441 | papal/papacy | 69 | ||
7085731898 | parliament/parliamentary system | 70 | ||
7085731899 | pastoral | 71 | ||
7085732310 | patriarchal | 72 | ||
7085732311 | patrilineal | 73 | ||
7085732458 | patronage | 74 | ||
7085733062 | peasant | 75 | ||
7085733063 | pharaoh | 76 | ||
7085733496 | piety/pious | 77 | ||
7085733497 | polity | 78 | ||
7085733669 | polygamy | 79 | ||
7085734008 | polytheism | 80 | ||
7085734724 | proselytize | 81 | ||
7085734725 | provincial | 82 | ||
7085734726 | regent | 83 | ||
7085734899 | republic | 84 | ||
7085735235 | rhetoric/rhetorical | 85 | ||
7085735641 | sedentary | 86 | ||
7085735980 | serf | 87 | ||
7085736153 | Sharia | 88 | ||
7085736154 | Sinification | 89 | ||
7085736581 | state | a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory | 90 | |
7085736582 | steppe | an extensive plain, especially one without trees | 91 | |
7085736583 | stratification | arranging something, or something that has been arranged, into categories | 92 | |
7085737230 | Sub-Saharan | Africa south of the Sahara Desert | 93 | |
7085738029 | subordinate | placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank | 94 | |
7085738030 | succession | the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events | 95 | |
7085738248 | syncretism | the combination of different forms of belief or practice | 96 | |
7085739384 | textiles | any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting | 97 | |
7085741283 | theocracy | a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities. | 98 | |
7085742137 | theology | study of divine things or religious truth | 99 | |
7085743165 | totalitarian | of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life | 100 | |
7085743464 | tributary state | a state that is subordinate to a more powerful neighbour | 101 | |
7085743475 | tyranny | cruel and oppressive government or rule | 102 | |
7085743906 | urban/urbanize | characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified | 103 | |
7085743907 | usurp | to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right | 104 | |
7085745063 | vernacular | the native speech or language of a place | 105 |
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