2708880762 | Absolutism | the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters | 0 | |
2751225177 | Agriculture | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products | 1 | |
2777799196 | Aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices. | 2 | |
2777799822 | Bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 3 | |
2777806789 | Capitalism | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state | 4 | |
2777807191 | Chiefdom | the rank or office of a chief, the territory or people over which a chief rules | 5 | |
2777807535 | City-state | A city with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | 6 | |
2777808122 | Civilization | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced | 7 | |
2777810312 | Codification | the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code, the act, process, or result of stating the rules and principles applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life in this form of a code, the reducing of unwritten customs or case law to statutory form | 8 | |
2777811543 | Coerced | persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats | 9 | |
2777811900 | Colonialism | the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically | 10 | |
2777815033 | Commercial | : concerned with or engaged in commerce, making or intended to make a profit, (of television or radio) funded by the revenue from broadcast advertisements, (of chemicals) supplied in bulk and not of the highest purity, a television or radio advertisement | 11 | |
2777815398 | Communism | a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs | 12 | |
2777815830 | Culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively, the cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc., in an artificial medium containing nutrients, maintain (tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) in conditions suitable for growth | 13 | |
2777816348 | Deforestation | to divest or clear of forests or trees | 14 | |
2777817069 | Deity | a god or goddess (in a polytheistic religion) | 15 | |
2777822536 | Demography | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations | 16 | |
2777822711 | Diffusion | the spreading of something more widely | 17 | |
2777823202 | Domestication | to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame, to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild, to adapt (a plant) so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings, to accustom to household life or affairs, to take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt, to make more ordinary, familiar, acceptable, or the like | 18 | |
2777824089 | Dynasty | a line of hereditary rulers of a country | 19 | |
2777824396 | Economic | of or relating to economics or the economy, justified in terms of profitability | 20 | |
2777825479 | Empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress | 21 | |
2777826018 | Epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time, of, relating to, or of the nature of an epidemic | 22 | |
2777826234 | Feudalism | 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, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection | 23 | |
2777827472 | Forager | one who forages | 24 | |
2777828719 | Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation | 25 | |
2777829145 | Globalization | the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen | 26 | |
2777829593 | Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority | 27 | |
2777830020 | Ideologies | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy, the science of ideas; the study of their origin and nature | 28 | |
2777831131 | Imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force | 29 | |
2777832822 | Indentured Servant | A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country | 30 | |
2777834332 | Industrialization | The process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of services and goods | 31 | |
2777834552 | Kingdom | a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen, the spiritual reign or authority of God, each of the three traditional divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) in which natural objects have conventionally been classified | 32 | |
2777835494 | Manorialism | In the medieval times, the organization of rural economy and society by three classes of manors; demesne, serf, or villein holdings, and free peasant land | 33 | |
2777835994 | Maritime | connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity | 34 | |
2777884157 | Marxism | the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism | 35 | |
2777884953 | Medieval | of or relating to the Middle Ages | 36 | |
2777885172 | Mercatilism | belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism | 37 | |
2777885422 | Merchant | A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade, a person with a partiality or aptitude for a particular activity or viewpoint, of or relating to merchants, trade, or commerce | 38 | |
2777886094 | Migration | seasonal movement of animals from one region to another, movement from one part of something to another | 39 | |
2777886715 | Monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God | 40 | |
2777886972 | Nation-State | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent | 41 | |
2777887357 | Nationalism | patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts | 42 | |
2777887621 | Neolithic | of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed | 43 | |
2777888333 | Nobility | the quality of being noble in character, mind, birth, or rank, the group of people belonging to the noble class in a country, especially those with a hereditary or honorary title | 44 | |
2777890815 | Nomad | a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock | 45 | |
2777893093 | Pandemic | (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world, an outbreak of a pandemic disease | 46 | |
2777893380 | Papacy | the office or authority of the pope | 47 | |
2777894523 | Partition | (especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts, divide into parts | 48 | |
2777894784 | Pastoral | (especially of land or a farm) used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle, (in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance, a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life | 49 | |
2777895282 | Patriarchal | of, relating to, or characteristic of a patriarch, or a system of society or government controlled by men | 50 | |
2777895939 | Periodization | an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for the purposes of analysis and study | 51 | |
2777896120 | Political | of or relating to the government or the public affairs of a country | 52 | |
2777896325 | Polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god | 53 | |
2777898061 | Proletariat | workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism | 54 | |
2777898326 | Protestantism | the faith, practice, and church order of the Protestant churches | 55 | |
2777898583 | Rebellion | an act of violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler | 56 | |
2777898824 | Reforms | make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it, the action or process of reforming an institution or practice | 57 | |
2777899071 | Religion | the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods | 58 | |
2777899458 | Revolution | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system, an instance of revolving | 59 | |
2777899739 | Secular | denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis,(of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order, of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets, (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period, occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome), a secular priest | 60 | |
2777899906 | Serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate | 61 | |
2777900167 | Slave | a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them, to work excessively hard | 62 | |
2777900562 | Social | of or relating to society or its organization | 63 | |
2777900730 | Socialism | a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole | 64 | |
2777901007 | Specialization | The basis of global trade as few countries produce enough goods to be completely self-sufficient | 65 | |
2777901495 | State | a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government, the civil government of a country, pomp and ceremony associated with monarchy or high levels of government | 66 | |
2777901745 | Suffrage | the right to vote in political elections, a series of intercessory prayers or petitions | 67 | |
2777902136 | Technology | the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry | 68 | |
2777902273 | Textiles | a type of cloth or woven fabric | 69 | |
2777902576 | Urban | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town | 70 | |
2777903024 | Westernization | a process whereby societies come under or adopt western cultures | 71 | |
2777914989 | Labor System | a plan or system for utilizing convict labor often authorized by law | 72 | |
2777915533 | Paleolithic | of, relating to, or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used | 73 | |
2777915895 | Prehistoric | of, relating to, or denoting the period before written records | 74 | |
2777916124 | Scribe | a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented | 75 |
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