2705559792 | Diffusion | Proxility of sprach ot writing; discurviness | 0 | |
2705559793 | Syncretism | The amalgamations or attempted amalgamations of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought | 1 | |
2716377763 | Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. | 2 | |
2716379790 | Empire | A group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than kingdom as a former British Empire, French empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine empire or Roman empire. | 3 | |
2716384356 | Core Area | A region in the home range that is used frequently. Fruiting trees, termite mounds, sleeping sites and water resources. | 4 | |
2716386462 | Periphery | The outer limits or edge of an area or object. | 5 | |
2716387135 | Bureaucracy | A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than elected representatives | 6 | |
2716390617 | Infrastructure | The basic equipment and structures that are needed for a country, region, or organization to function properly. The underlying foundation or basic framework. | 7 | |
2716393296 | First Wave Civilization | 3500 B.C.E.-500 B.C.E. Menioco, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Norte Chico, Indus Valley, Oxun China Olmec. These Civilizations proves to be fragile and vulnerable. A. Mesopotamia city states were absorbed into larger empires. B. Egypt suffered a series of foreign conquests. C. Indus Valley civilization declined in face of desertification and political collapse. D. Norte Chico civilization faded away by 1800 B. C. E. E. The Olmecs razed and abandoned their major cities around 400 B. C. E. F. China fragmented into warning states. | 8 | |
2720092208 | second wave civilizations | 500 B.C.E.- 500 C.E Apex of human development at the time. Develop new technologies that allow them to wage war more effectively, feed the population, while creating a massive surplus, and maintaining large territories. Religion spread far and wide | 9 | |
2720096445 | third wave civilizations | 500 C.E- 1500 C.E (End of classical Era-rise of the west) Big picture developments= trade, communication, and spread of culture and technology. Same structure politically | 10 | |
2720099449 | state building | An endogenous process to enhance capacity, institutions and legitimacy of the state driven by state-society relations | 11 | |
2720100943 | State | A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one community | 12 | |
2720101733 | City-State | A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | 13 | |
2720102864 | Stateless Societies | There is little concentration of authority; most positions of authority that do exist are very limited and power and are generally not permanently held positions; And social bodies that resolve disputes through predefined rules tend to be smaller | 14 | |
2720104580 | Agricultural Societies | Use technology advances to cultivate crops (especially grains like wheat, rice, corn, and barley.) society based around producing and maintaining crops and farmland | 15 | |
2768504608 | Pastoral Societies | Nomadic group of people who travel with a herd or domesticated animals, which they rely on for food. The word "pastoral comes from the Latin root word "Pastor" which means "Shepard" | 16 | |
2768507219 | Nomadic | Of,relating to, or characteristics of nomads. Nomad-move place to place according to season and have no home. | 17 | |
2768508079 | Theatre State | Political state directed towards the performance of drama and ritual rather than more conventional ends such as welfare. Power in a theatre state is except used through spectacle. | 18 | |
2768513058 | Feudalism | Combination of legal and military customs on medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor. | 19 | |
2768513734 | Serf | Agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lords estate. | 20 | |
2768515818 | Maritime | Connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity | 21 | |
2768516809 | Consumerism | The protection or promotion of the interests of the consumer | 22 | |
2768517098 | Forced Labor Systems | Generic or collective term for those who work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will by the threat of destitution, detention, violence, lawful compulsion, or other extreme hardships to themselves or members of their families | 23 | |
2768520589 | hyper urbanization | It is the rapid and unchecked influx of migrants, usually but not exclusively, internal into a city. Hyper urbanization usually occurs in the world megacities (10,000,000+) most notably where the infrastructure cannot cope with the large intake of residence. The most vulnerable are left on periphery with few resources or access to employment | 24 | |
2768522161 | Manorialism | An essential element of Feudal Society, manorialism is the name for the organization of the economy in the Middle Ages. The economy relied mainly on agriculture. Manorialism describes how land was distributed and who profited from the land | 25 | |
2768524245 | Law Codes | Also called legal code, a more or less systematic and comprehensive written statement of laws. Lock codes were compiled by the most ancient people. The best-known ancient code is the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi | 26 | |
2768525531 | Monarchy | A country that is ruled by a monarch, such as a king or queen | 27 | |
2768525726 | Succession | The coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events. | 28 | |
2768526262 | Authoritarian | Favoring to enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom | 29 | |
2768527288 | Revolutionary | A person who works for or engages in political revolution | 30 | |
2768527570 | Reactionary | (Of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform | 31 | |
2768528344 | Cultural Hearth | Any place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication of plants or animals | 32 | |
2768529672 | Religion Tradition | Are the laws, regulations, beliefs, and practices handed down from one generation to another | 33 | |
2768538991 | Ideological Tradition | Ideology- the body of doctrine,myth,belief, Etc, that guides am individual, social movement, institution ,class or large group. Ex)feminism, anarchism, fascism, nationalism | 34 | |
2768540451 | zoroastrianism | One of the worlds oldest monotheistic religions. It was founded by the Prophet Zoroaster in ancient Iran approximately 3500 years ago. From the ancient pre-Islamic religion of Persia. It concepts of one God, judgement, heaven and hell. | 35 | |
2768541930 | Hinduism | Religion of majority of people in India and Nepal. It has no single founder, no single scripture, and no commonly agreed set of teachings | 36 | |
2768542495 | Buddhism | Religion to 300 million people around the world. The word comes from "budhi" which means "to awaken". It has it's origins about 2,500 years ago when Siddhartha Gotama, known as the Buddha, was himself awakened at the age of 35 | 37 | |
2771265839 | Islam | Is a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion by the Qur'an, a religious text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God. An adherent of Islam is called a Muslim. Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose of existence is to worship God. | 38 | |
2771280783 | Christianity | Worlds lathers religion, with about 2.4 billion adherents, known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is a son of God, fully Devine and fully human, and the savior of humanity whose coming as Christ or the Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. | 39 | |
2771284839 | Confucianism | Way of life taught by Confucius in the 6th-5th century B.C. sometimes viewed as a philosophy, sometimes as a religion, Confucianism is perhaps best understood as am all encompassing humanism that either denies not slights heavan | 40 | |
2771308446 | Animism | The attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. | 41 | |
2771315759 | Secular | Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual base | 42 | |
2771317100 | Hellenism | Term generally used by historians to refer to the period of time from the death of Alexander the Great(323 BCE.) to the death of Cleopatra and the incorporation of Egypt in the Roman Empire in 30 BCE. | 43 | |
2771318721 | Social Hierarchy | The establishment of dominance- subordination relationship among higher animal societies | 44 | |
2771319303 | Technology | The collection of techniques, methods, or processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation | 45 | |
2771320125 | Raw Materials | Basic materials used in the production of goods, energy, finished products or intermediate materials that are themselves a finished product | 46 | |
2771321161 | Demographic Shift | Refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from pre-industrial to am industrialized economic system | 47 | |
2771323656 | Global Perspective | Means that we aim to:enable people to understand the links between their own lives and those of people throughout the world. Increase understanding of economic, social and political forces which shape life | 48 | |
2771326505 | Imperial Expansion | When an imperialistic country expands. H taking over other territories or countries | 49 | |
2771326973 | Gender | Range of characteristics pertaining to, and differencing between, masculinity and femininity | 50 | |
2771327474 | Patriarchy | A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line | 51 | |
2771328201 | Elites | In political and sociological theory, an elite is a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth or political power In the western civilization they are also called the "establishment" | 52 | |
2771330247 | Peasants | A member of a traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or more generally in any pre-industrial society. In Europe, peasants were divided into three classes according to their personal status: slave, serf, and freeman | 53 | |
2771333086 | Aristocracy | The hugest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices | 54 | |
2772400970 | Proletariat | Workers or working-class people, regarded collectively. The lowest class of citizens in Ancient Rome | 55 | |
2772404626 | Urbanization | A population shift from rural to urban areas, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to change | 56 | |
2772406709 | Matrilineal Kinship | Also called Matriliny, group adhering to a kinship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines | 57 | |
2772410877 | Clan Groups | Kin group used as am organizational device in many traditional societies. Membership in a clan is traditionally defined in terms of descent from a common ancestor. This descent is usually unilineal, or derived only from the male or female line | 58 | |
2772414664 | Caste | Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu Society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status | 59 | |
2772416461 | Caste System | In India is a system of social stratification which historically separated communities into thousands of endogamous hereditary groups called Jātis, usually translated into English as "Castes" | 60 | |
2772418949 | Diaspora | Jews living outside of Israel •the dispersion of any people from their original home land | 61 | |
2772420064 | Migration | (Human) movement by the people from one place to another with the intention of setting temporarily or permanently in the new location | 62 | |
2772421615 | Regional Trade Agreement | Are the agreements whereby members accord preferential treatment to one another in respect to barriers | 63 | |
2772427838 | Inter-regional Trade | Trade that takes place between 2 or more regions | 64 | |
2772428422 | Entrepot | A port or city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution | 65 | |
2772429618 | Luxury Goods | Is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises | 66 | |
2772430798 | Commodity | A raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee | 67 | |
2772431684 | Bullion | Gold or silver in bulk before cloning, or valued by weight | 68 | |
2772432707 | Specie | Money in form of coins rather than notes | 69 | |
2772434003 | Coercive Labor | Labor that is gained through the use of force or threats | 70 | |
2772434840 | Slavery | Legal or economic system under which people are treated like property | 71 | |
2772435415 | Irrigation | Artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops? Maintenance of landscapes and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas | 72 | |
2772437637 | Metallurgy | The branch of science and technology concerned with properties of metals and their production and purification | 73 | |
2772440970 | Economic Interactions | Are conducted between economic agents- individuals and collectives through exchange of natural or artificial entities- goods, services and money, in a myriad of combinations | 74 | |
2772443072 | Economic System | The system of production and distribution and consumption | 75 | |
2772445220 | Political Change | Is a normal function of internal and external politics. Rulers will be voted out, retire or die while in power and the new leader will make changes. The more powerful countries will anticipate political changes and make the process clear and smooth | 76 | |
2772447242 | political structure | The members of a social organization who are in power | 77 | |
2772447530 | Trade System | Different systems of process of buying and selling, or exchanging commodities, at rigger whole sale or retail, within a country or between countries | 78 | |
2772448776 | Nation State | A form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language that live in a particular area under one government | 79 | |
2772452827 | Global Processes | Whether changes like heat or geographical features | 80 |
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