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208754423Argarianrelating to agriculture0
208754424AgriculturistsThe science and business of cultivation soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming1
208754425ArchaeologyThe study of past human societies2
208754426AryansIndo-European migrants who settled in India after 1500 B.C.E.; their union with indigenous Dravidians formed the basis of Hinduism3
208754427AsceticismDescribes lifestyle in ways of religious and spiritual goals4
208754428Austronesianrelating to a family of languages spoken in an area extending from Madagascar to the Pacific islands5
208754429Bureaucracya system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives6
208754430BrahmanA member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood7
208754431BrahminsHindu caste of priests8
208754432CasteEach of the hereditary classes of HIndu society, distinguished by relative degress of ritual purity or pollution and of social status9
208754433CataractsA large water fall; sudden rush of water10
208754434CivilizationThe most advanced stage of human social development and organization11
208754435CuneiformRelating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets12
208754436Domesticationadaptation to intimate association with human beings13
208754437DynastyA line of hereditary rulers of a country14
208754438Economic SpecializationMore people could focus on other jobs and labor other than getting food15
208754439Egalitarianupholding the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political asocial and economic equality16
208754440Erosiona gradual decline of something17
208754441Foragingthe act of searching for food and provisions18
208754442Hammurabi's CodeA legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties.19
208754443Hieroglyphicsan ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds20
209887902HittitesAn Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C.21
209887903Indo-Europeantribal groups from southern Russia who embarked on a series of migrations from India through western Europe-- broad distribution of Indo-European languages throughout Eurasia22
209887904KarmaHindu concept that the sum of good and bad in a person's life will determine his or her status in the next life23
209887905Loessa fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind24
209887906Maizetall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears25
209887907Mandate of HeavenChinese belief that the emperors ruled through the approval of heaven contingent on their ability to look after the welfare of the population26
209887908Matriarchalrelating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family27
209887909Mercenarya person hired to fight for another country than their own28
209887910Metallurgythe science or art of metals. It includes the study of their properties and structure, the separation and refining of metals from their ores, the production of alloys, and the shaping and treatment of metals by heat and rolling.29
209887911MokshaHindu concept of the salvation of the soul30
209887912Monotheismbelief in a single God31
209887913NeolithicNew Stone Age which was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture32
209887914Nomada member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons33
209887915Obsidianacid or granitic glass34
209887916Oracle Boneschinese Shang dynasty means of foretelling the future35
209887917PaleolithicOld Stone Age, a long period of human development before the development of agriculture36
209887918PastoralismA type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.37
209887919Patriarchalrelating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority38
209887920Pharaohthe title of the ancient Egyptian kings39
209887921Pictographspictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing40
209887922PolytheismBelief in many gods41
209887923SamsaraHindu term for the concept of transmigration that is the soul passing into a new incarnation42
209887924SatiIndian practice of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband43
209887925Savannaha flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions44
209887926Self-Sufficientable to provide there own needs45
209887927VarnaHindu word for caste46
209887928VedasWisdom early collections of prayers and hymns that provide info about the Indo-European Aryans who migrated into india47
209887929Venerationreligious zeal48
209887930Zoroastrianismsystem of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster49

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