7158039450 | B.C.E | before common era | 0 | |
7158046006 | C.E. | common era | 1 | |
7158060726 | abdicate | -(of a monarch) renounce one's throne. | 2 | |
7158060727 | accession | the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president. | 3 | |
7158063556 | aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. | 4 | |
7158063557 | agrarian | relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. | 5 | |
7158067947 | amenities | a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place | 6 | |
7158067948 | anarchy | a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. | 7 | |
7158068391 | animism | the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. | 8 | |
7158068392 | antiquity | the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages | 9 | |
7158070776 | appeasement | the action or process of appeasing. | 10 | |
7158071221 | aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices. | 11 | |
7158071719 | asceticism | severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. | 12 | |
7158080989 | assimilate | take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully. | 13 | |
7158081902 | authoritarian | favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. | 14 | |
7158081903 | autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. | 15 | |
7158082655 | barbarism | absence of culture and civilization. | 16 | |
7158083469 | bureaucracy/bureaucrats | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 17 | |
7158083470 | city-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 18 | |
7158083471 | civic | relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal. | 19 | |
7158084184 | classical | relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture. | 20 | |
7158085859 | colonial | relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies | 21 | |
7158085860 | commerce | the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale. | 22 | |
7158086225 | communal | shared by all members of a community; for common use. | 23 | |
7158088359 | concubine | (in polygamous societies) a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives. | 24 | |
7158088360 | conscription | compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. | 25 | |
7158092172 | cosmopolitan | familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures. | 26 | |
7158092173 | coup | a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. | 27 | |
7158092948 | demography/demographic | relating to the structure of populations. | 28 | |
7158092949 | despot | a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way. | 29 | |
7158093394 | diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel. | 30 | |
7158093395 | dissent | the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held. | 31 | |
7158093768 | dissident | a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state. | 32 | |
7158094102 | domestic/domesticate | existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international. | 33 | |
7158094103 | dynasty/dynastic | a line of hereditary rulers of a country. | 34 | |
7158094515 | edict | an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority. | 35 | |
7158094516 | egalitarian | relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. | 36 | |
7158094517 | elite | a succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field. | 37 | |
7158095031 | emigrate | leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another. | 38 | |
7158095032 | epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. | 39 | |
7158095410 | ethnocentric | evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture. | 40 | |
7158095411 | 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. | 41 | |
7158095892 | genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 42 | |
7158095893 | gentry | people of good social position, specifically (in the UK) the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth. | 43 | |
7158096302 | guild | a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power. | 44 | |
7158096303 | hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 45 | |
7158096762 | hominids | a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes. | 46 | |
7158099513 | homogenous | of the same kind; alike. | 47 | |
7158099514 | ideology | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. | 48 | |
7158099925 | imperial/imperialism | rule by an emperor. | 49 | |
7158099926 | indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. | 50 | |
7158100523 | infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | 51 | |
7158100524 | lineage | lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree. | 52 | |
7158101101 | linguistic | relating to language or linguistics. | 53 | |
7158101102 | manifest | clear or obvious to the eye or mind. | 54 | |
7158101457 | maritime | connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity. | 55 | |
7158101724 | martial | of or appropriate to war; warlike. | 56 | |
7158102690 | matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 57 | |
7158102691 | mercenary | (of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics. | 58 | |
7158103155 | monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head. | 59 | |
7158103471 | monopoly/monopolize | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. | 60 | |
7158103472 | monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 61 | |
7158103833 | mystical | relating to mystics or religious mysticism. | 62 | |
7158104154 | nation-state | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. | 63 | |
7158104155 | neo | a new or revived form of. | 64 | |
7158104588 | neolithic | relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. | 65 | |
7158104589 | nomadic | living the life of a nomad; wandering. | 66 | |
7158104872 | oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. | 67 | |
7158107799 | pantheon | all the gods of a people or religion collectively. | 68 | |
7158108060 | papal/papacy | the office or authority of the Pope. | 69 | |
7158109073 | parliament/parliamentary system | relating to, enacted by, or suitable for a parliament. | 70 | |
7158123869 | pastoral | a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. | 71 | |
7158123870 | patriarchal | relating to or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men. | 72 | |
7158124894 | patrilineal | relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line. | 73 | |
7158125248 | patronage | the support given by a patron | 74 | |
7158125249 | peasant | a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries). | 75 | |
7158125843 | pharaoh | a ruler in ancient Egypt. | 76 | |
7158126291 | piety/pious | devoutly religious. | 77 | |
7158126292 | polity | a form or process of civil government or constitution. an organized society; a state as a political entity. | 78 | |
7158126744 | polygamy | the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time. | 79 | |
7158127086 | polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god. | 80 | |
7158127472 | proselytize | convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another. | 81 | |
7158127811 | provincial | of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded. | 82 | |
7158127812 | regent | a person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor or is absent or incapacitated. | 83 | |
7158128356 | republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. | 84 | |
7158129650 | rhetoric/rhetorical | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 85 | |
7158129651 | sedentary | (of a person) tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive. | 86 | |
7158130124 | serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. | 87 | |
7158130125 | sharia | Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet (Hadith and Sunna), prescribing both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties for lawbreaking. It has generally been supplemented by legislation adapted to the conditions of the day, though the manner in which it should be applied in modern states is a subject of dispute between Islamic fundamentalists and modernists. | 88 | |
7158130835 | signification | an exact meaning or sense. | 89 | |
7158130836 | state | a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. | 90 | |
7158131020 | steppe | a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia. | 91 | |
7158132536 | stratification | the arrangement or classification of something into different groups. | 92 | |
7158136629 | sub-saharan | from or forming part of the African regions south of the Sahara desert. | 93 | |
7158136630 | subordinate | lower in rank or position. | 94 | |
7158137181 | succession | the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc. | 95 | |
7158137182 | syncretism | the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. | 96 | |
7158143534 | textiles | a type of cloth or woven fabric. | 97 | |
7158144117 | theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. | 98 | |
7158144118 | theology | the study of the nature of God and religious belief. | 99 | |
7158144941 | totalitarian | relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. (1984) | 100 | |
7158145647 | tributary state | subordinate to a more powerful neighbour. It was a form of subordination in pre-modern times. The _____________ sent a regular token of submission to the superior power. This was a tribute, a substantial gift of wealth, such as the gold, produce, or slaves. | 101 | |
7158145652 | tyranny | cruel and oppressive government or rule. | 102 | |
7158146617 | urban/urbanize | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town. | 103 | |
7158146618 | usurp | take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force. | 104 | |
7158166553 | vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 105 |
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