7223582218 | Absolutism | absolute power to the government | 0 | |
7223582219 | Chiefdom | A political organization by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns | 1 | |
7223582220 | Demography | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, etc. | 2 | |
7223582221 | Empire | an extensive group of states or countries ruled together by one government | 3 | |
7223582222 | Genocide | deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially of a specific ethnic group | 4 | |
7223582223 | Interregenial | relating to or occuring between two countries | 5 | |
7223582224 | Monotheism | the belief in one single god such as judaism, christianity, or islam | 6 | |
7223582225 | Nobility | the group of people belonging to the highest social class in a country | 7 | |
7223582226 | Pastoral | related to Shepherds or herdsmen devoted to raising sheep or cattle | 8 | |
7223582227 | Prehistoric | referring to the time before written records | 9 | |
7223582228 | Scribe | a person who copies out documents | 10 | |
7223582229 | Slave | a person who is of legal property to another and is forced to obey them | 11 | |
7223582230 | Theocracy | a form of government where the main ruler is seen as the god | 12 | |
7223582231 | Agriculture | the science or occupation of farming | 13 | |
7223582232 | City-state | a state consisting of a city and surrounding territory that has its own government | 14 | |
7223582233 | Diaspora | the scattering of jews after being captive/ the scattering of people from there homeland | 15 | |
7223582234 | Epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in community | 16 | |
7223582235 | Globalization | extending and connecting to other parts of the world | 17 | |
7223582236 | Kingdom | a country whose ruler is a king or queen | 18 | |
7223582237 | Nation | a large group of people living in a territory with its own government | 19 | |
7223582238 | Nomad | a people who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock never staying in one place | 20 | |
7223582239 | patriarchal | a group controlled by a male | 21 | |
7223582240 | Primary source | an artifact, document, recording, diary, autobiography, or anything else that was created at that time | 22 | |
7223582241 | Secondary source | something created after the event or time period ocurred made by someone who did not experience it first hand | 23 | |
7223582242 | Socialism | all people receive equal portions instead of competing for it | 24 | |
7223582243 | Urban | belonging or relating to a town or city | 25 | |
7223582244 | Aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies especially those with titles or offices | 26 | |
7223582245 | Civilizations | when a human society has a high level of culture, science, industry, and government | 27 | |
7223582246 | Divine | of, from, of like god | 28 | |
7223582247 | Feudalism | european political system in which a lord owned all land while vassals and serfs farmed it | 29 | |
7223582248 | Imperialism | a government that fights or uses politics to take control of other areas | 30 | |
7223582249 | Medieval | relating to the middle ages of europe | 31 | |
7223582250 | Nation-state | a state consisting of a single group of people with the same language, race, and religion | 32 | |
7223582251 | Pandemic | a disease that effects a large geographic area of population | 33 | |
7223582252 | Periodization | the dividing or categorizing of the past into certain blocks of time | 34 | |
7223582253 | Revolution | the sometimes violent attempt of a certain group of people to overthrow a government in favor of a new system | 35 | |
7223582254 | Serf | An agricultural laborer who work his lords estate | 36 | |
7223582255 | State | a politically organized group of people that may or may not be sovereign and have one government | 37 | |
7223582256 | Bureaucracy | a system of government where most decisions are not made by the elected officials instead by state officials | 38 | |
7223582257 | Colonialism | when one country becomes an empire by taking control over other countries and turning them into colonies so they can have their money and food | 39 | |
7223582258 | Dynasty | a line of hereditary rulers of a country | 40 | |
7223582259 | Forager | a person who seeks or looks for food or other needed resources | 41 | |
7223582260 | indentured servant | a person on a contract to work for another person for a period of time usually for passage into another country | 42 | |
7223582261 | Merchant | a buyer and seller of items for their own profit | 43 | |
7223582262 | Neolithic | a period of time where farming, crafting, and the domestication of animals began | 44 | |
7223582263 | Papacy | the office or authority of the pope | 45 | |
7223582264 | Polytheism | the belief or worship of more than one god | 46 | |
7223582265 | Rural | relating to the countryside other than the town | 47 | |
7223582266 | Shaman | someone who is regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing. | 48 | |
7223582267 | Syncretism | the combination of different beliefs and religions | 49 |
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