13434569430 | Patriarchy | A form of social organization in which males dominate females | 0 | |
13434593768 | Matriarchy | A society ruled or controlled by women | 1 | |
13434605115 | Clan | a group of related families | 2 | |
13434663507 | Tribe | Any system of social organization made up of villages, bands, or other groups with a common ancestry, language, culture, and name | 3 | |
13434682825 | Caste System | A Indian social class system that controlled every aspect of daily life | 4 | |
13434703654 | Theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. | 5 | |
13448952278 | Monarchy | A government ruled by a king or queen | 6 | |
13448963207 | City-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 7 | |
13448974519 | Village | a community of people smaller than a town | 8 | |
13448978337 | Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 9 | |
13448983376 | Deforestation | the action of clearing a wide area of trees. | 10 | |
13448990545 | Desertification | the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture. | 11 | |
13449002148 | barter | Exchange goods without involving money. | 12 | |
13449014185 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 13 | |
13449020012 | Naturalism | a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail. | 14 | |
13449020013 | Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. | 15 | |
13449023314 | Monotheism | Belief in one God | 16 | |
13449023315 | ziggurats | temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshiped | 17 | |
13449031852 | ancestor worship or veneration | praying to, piously remembering, or religiously honoring one's deceased family members | 18 | |
13449035480 | Mandate or Heaven | The right to rule is granted by heaven; based on virtue of the ruler | 19 | |
13449088440 | Fertile Crescent | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates | 20 | |
13449102459 | Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writing. | 21 | |
13449114330 | Hammurabi's Code | a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life in Babylonian empire | 22 | |
13449133772 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets. | 23 | |
13449133773 | Hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 24 | |
13449139449 | Papyrus | A long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds | 25 | |
13449142727 | Paleolithic Age | (750,000 BCE - 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source. | 26 | |
13449151607 | Neolithic Age | "New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture | 27 | |
13449151608 | Metallurgy | the branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification. | 28 | |
13449158129 | Surplus of Food and what it allowed for | Excess of food which allowed villages to increase their populations | 29 | |
13449162795 | Division of labor | Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers | 30 |
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