7276980079 | agriculture | the science of farming practice, including acuiring soil for growing crops and rearing of animals to supply things like food and wool | 0 | |
7276985075 | abolute ruler | a dictatorship or a form of government where the ruler is a complete dictator | 1 | |
7276990530 | aristocracy | a form of government that the highest class in some places are the ones holding hereditary offices or titles | 2 | |
7276995201 | bureaucracy | a type of government where most decisions are made by state officials instead of elected representatives | 3 | |
7277000533 | chiefdom | a form of hierarchial political organization in non industrial societies usually based on kinship | 4 | |
7277006212 | city-state | soverign state, or a type of small independant country, that is most often made up of a single city and its dependant territories | 5 | |
7277042563 | coup de tat | the unjust and openly taking of a state by the military and other elites within a state | 6 | |
7277048627 | democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, usually through elected representatives | 7 | |
7277057598 | dynasty | a succession of people from the same family who play a dominant role in business, politics, or another field | 8 | |
7277067762 | hereditary monarchy | where all the monarchs come from the same family, and the crown is passed down from one member to another member of the family | 9 | |
7277073005 | king | male ruler of an independent state or country that has a royal family | 10 | |
7277077262 | queen | the female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the role by right of birth | 11 | |
7277080674 | emperor | a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire | 12 | |
7277084005 | ruler | a person who is exercising government or dominion | 13 | |
7277098383 | matriarchy | a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women | 14 | |
7277100024 | oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution | 15 | |
7277106603 | patriarchy | a system of society or government in which the father or the eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line | 16 | |
7277112050 | theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a go | 17 | |
7277117296 | revolution | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system | 18 | |
7277119908 | gender roles | the role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by the prevailing cultural norms | 19 | |
7277141346 | indentured servant | a person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, most of the time without pay but in exchange for a passage into a new country | 20 | |
7277146954 | merchants | a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade | 21 | |
7277153820 | nobility | a social class that is normally ranked directly under royalty | 22 | |
7277159476 | peasant | a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation | 23 | |
7277161981 | rural | a geographic area that is located outside of places such as main cities or towns | 24 | |
7277165034 | scribe | a person who copies out documents | 25 | |
7277166543 | serf | status of peasants under feudalism | 26 | |
7277167614 | shaman | a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern asia and north america | 27 | |
7277174155 | slave | a person who is forced to work for little to no pay in poor conditions | 28 | |
7277177630 | urban | in, relating to, or a characteristic of a city or town | 29 | |
7277185780 | afterlife | the belief that a key part of a persons identity keeps living after a person dies | 30 | |
7277201670 | caste | each of the hereditary classes of hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status | 31 | |
7277216579 | deities | supernatural, divine, or sacred beings | 32 | |
7277218361 | epic of gilgamesh | an ancient mesopotamian poem that is said to be the first, or earliest, great piece of literature | 33 | |
7277224125 | gods | supernatural beings that are said to be divine or sacred | 34 | |
7277263355 | karma | your destiny or fate, which follows as the effect from cause | 35 | |
7277265796 | monotheism | the belief in one, all powerful, God who created the world | 36 | |
7277276763 | mandate of heaven | the idea that there was only one real ruler of China and that he was chosen by the Gods | 37 | |
7277289618 | mummification | a practice used to help someone get into the afterlife | 38 | |
7277291941 | mythology | the myths that certain people who believed them collected and studied | 39 | |
7277294863 | oracle bones | the shoulder blades of oxen or plastrons or turtles which were used in the shang dynasty of china for divination | 40 | |
7277299037 | polytheism | the belief or worship in more then one God | 41 | |
7277301630 | pyramid | a structure used to house royal people who have died in cultures like mexican and the egyptian empire | 42 | |
7277311626 | ritual | religious or solemn ceremonies consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order | 43 | |
7277316460 | sati | the hindu custom that a widow would commit suicide either during or after their husbands funeral | 44 | |
7277320840 | sacrifice | an act of slaughtering an animal or person or giving something up as an offering to God or to give a divine or supernatural figure | 45 | |
7277327132 | scriptures | the sacred writings of christianity contained in the bible, or sacred writings of another religion | 46 | |
7277331817 | temples | structures reserved for worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reference | 47 | |
7277351419 | Yah Weh | the hebrew name for God and God was referred to as this in the Bible | 48 | |
7277354176 | ziggurats | rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple | 49 |
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