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4820556764Agrariana person who favors the equal division of landed property and the advancement of agricultural groups.0
4820556765Artisansa person or company that makes a high-quality or distinctive product in small quantities, usually by hand or using traditional methods: our favorite local food artisans.1
4820556766Civilization1.great economic food surplus 2.formal government 3."writing " 4.cities2
4820556767ConduitA conduit is a person or country that links two or more other people or countries. Pakistan became a conduit for drugs produced in Afghanistan.3
4820556768DiffusionAlso called cultural diffusion. the transmission of elements or features of one culture to another.4
4820556769DivineYou use divine to describe something that is provided by or relates to a god or goddess. He suggested that the civil war had been a divine punishment.5
4820556770Egalitarianasserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life.6
4820556771EmpiresAn empire is a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country. ...the Roman Empire.7
4820556772Flora/faunathe animals/ plants of a given region or period considered as a whole.8
4820556773GovernanceThe governance of a country is the way in which it is governed9
4820556774Ideogram (ideograph)An ideogram is a sign or symbol that represents a particular idea or thing rather than a word. The writing systems of Japan and China, for example, use ideograms.10
4820556775Interactionsreciprocal action, effect, or influence.11
4820556776Metallurgythe technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.12
4820556777Monotheismthe doctrine or belief that there is only one God.13
4820556778Pastoralismthe practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.14
4820556779Peoplingto furnish with people; populate.15
4820556780Polytheismthe doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.16
4820556781StratifiedA stratified society is one that is divided into different classes or social layers. ...a highly stratified, unequal and class-divided society.17
4820556782Textilesof or relating to textiles or the production of textiles: the textile industry.18
4820556783Ancestor venerationin certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.19
4820556784Bureaucracyan administrative system operated by a large number of officials.20
4820556785CodificationLaw. 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.21
4820556786Cultivationland or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it. an attitude, image, or skill, you try hard to develop it and make it stronger or better. someone or cultivate a friendship with them, you try hard to develop a friendship with them.22
4820556787Disseminationto distribute information so that it reaches many people or organizations.23
4820556788DomesticatedWhen people domesticate wild animals or plants, they bring them under control and use them to produce food or as pets.24
4820556789Elitethe most powerful, rich, or talented people within a particular group, place, or society25
4820556790Facilitatedto assist the progress of26
4820556791Foragingthe acquisition of food by hunting, fishing, or the gathering of plant matter.27
4820556792HierarchicalA hierarchical system or organization is one in which people have different ranks or positions, depending on how important they are.28
4820556793Innovationsa new thing or a new method of doing something.29
4820556794Kinshipthe relationship between members of the same family.30
4820556795Migrationsa number or body of persons or animals relocating together.31
4820556796Monumentalof historical or enduring significance: a monumental victory.32
4820556797Patriarchalof or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.33
4820556798Pictogram (pictograph)a record consisting of pictorial symbols, as a prehistoric cave drawing or a graph or chart with symbolic figures representing a certain number of people, cars, fa34
4820556799Social structurethe system or complex of beliefs held by members of a social group. the system of relations between the constituent groups of a society. the relationship between or the interrelated arrangement of the social institutions of a society or culture, as of mores, marriage customs, or family. the pattern of relationships, as of status or friendship, existing among the members of a group or society.35
4820556800Surplusagricultural produce or a quantity of food grown by a nation or area in excess of its needs, especially such a quantity of food purchased and stored by a governmental program of guaranteeing farmers a specific price for certain crops.36
4820556801TransregionalAny activity that covers a region - which may be within a single country of covering several. The Roman Empire was transregional - crossing modern political divisons, straddling continents and crossing oceans.37

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