208754423 | Argarian | relating to agriculture | 0 | |
208754424 | Agriculturists | The science and business of cultivation soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming | 1 | |
208754425 | Archaeology | The study of past human societies | 2 | |
208754426 | Aryans | Indo-European migrants who settled in India after 1500 B.C.E.; their union with indigenous Dravidians formed the basis of Hinduism | 3 | |
208754427 | Asceticism | Describes lifestyle in ways of religious and spiritual goals | 4 | |
208754428 | Austronesian | relating to a family of languages spoken in an area extending from Madagascar to the Pacific islands | 5 | |
208754429 | Bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives | 6 | |
208754430 | Brahman | A member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood | 7 | |
208754431 | Brahmins | Hindu caste of priests | 8 | |
208754432 | Caste | Each of the hereditary classes of HIndu society, distinguished by relative degress of ritual purity or pollution and of social status | 9 | |
208754433 | Cataracts | A large water fall; sudden rush of water | 10 | |
208754434 | Civilization | The most advanced stage of human social development and organization | 11 | |
208754435 | Cuneiform | Relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets | 12 | |
208754436 | Domestication | adaptation to intimate association with human beings | 13 | |
208754437 | Dynasty | A line of hereditary rulers of a country | 14 | |
208754438 | Economic Specialization | More people could focus on other jobs and labor other than getting food | 15 | |
208754439 | Egalitarian | upholding the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political asocial and economic equality | 16 | |
208754440 | Erosion | a gradual decline of something | 17 | |
208754441 | Foraging | the act of searching for food and provisions | 18 | |
208754442 | Hammurabi's Code | A 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 | |
208754443 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 20 | |
209887902 | Hittites | An Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C. | 21 | |
209887903 | Indo-European | tribal groups from southern Russia who embarked on a series of migrations from India through western Europe-- broad distribution of Indo-European languages throughout Eurasia | 22 | |
209887904 | Karma | Hindu concept that the sum of good and bad in a person's life will determine his or her status in the next life | 23 | |
209887905 | Loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | 24 | |
209887906 | Maize | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears | 25 | |
209887907 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that the emperors ruled through the approval of heaven contingent on their ability to look after the welfare of the population | 26 | |
209887908 | Matriarchal | relating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family | 27 | |
209887909 | Mercenary | a person hired to fight for another country than their own | 28 | |
209887910 | Metallurgy | the 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 | |
209887911 | Moksha | Hindu concept of the salvation of the soul | 30 | |
209887912 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 31 | |
209887913 | Neolithic | New Stone Age which was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture | 32 | |
209887914 | Nomad | a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | 33 | |
209887915 | Obsidian | acid or granitic glass | 34 | |
209887916 | Oracle Bones | chinese Shang dynasty means of foretelling the future | 35 | |
209887917 | Paleolithic | Old Stone Age, a long period of human development before the development of agriculture | 36 | |
209887918 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 37 | |
209887919 | Patriarchal | relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority | 38 | |
209887920 | Pharaoh | the title of the ancient Egyptian kings | 39 | |
209887921 | Pictographs | pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing | 40 | |
209887922 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 41 | |
209887923 | Samsara | Hindu term for the concept of transmigration that is the soul passing into a new incarnation | 42 | |
209887924 | Sati | Indian practice of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband | 43 | |
209887925 | Savannah | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | 44 | |
209887926 | Self-Sufficient | able to provide there own needs | 45 | |
209887927 | Varna | Hindu word for caste | 46 | |
209887928 | Vedas | Wisdom early collections of prayers and hymns that provide info about the Indo-European Aryans who migrated into india | 47 | |
209887929 | Veneration | religious zeal | 48 | |
209887930 | Zoroastrianism | system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster | 49 |
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