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| 291379898 | Hunting-gathering | The process of living that involves hunting for meat, gathering edible produce, and traveling frequently. | 0 | |
| 291379899 | Domesticated plants and animals | to convert animals and plants to domestic uses; tame | 1 | |
| 291379900 | Sedentary | not migratory; settled | 2 | |
| 291379901 | Nomadic, Pastoral | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | 3 | |
| 291379902 | Neolithic | a period when the hunting and gathering lifestyle gave way to permanent settlements and the tending of plants and animals; "new stone age" | 4 | |
| 291379903 | Deity | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | 5 | |
| 291379904 | Pantheon | all the gods of a people or religion | 6 | |
| 291379905 | Pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. | 7 | |
| 291379906 | Caste System | System in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the caste system in their next life through their actions, or karma. After many lives of good karma, they may be relieved from cycle of life and win their place in heaven. | 8 | |
| 291379907 | Priest | a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites | 9 | |
| 291379908 | Nun | a woman who has taken a sacred vow to devote her life to prayer and service to the church | 10 | |
| 291379909 | Monotheism | belief in a single god | 11 | |
| 291379910 | Polytheism | belief in multiple gods | 12 | |
| 291379911 | Celibacy | abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | 13 | |
| 291379912 | Monasticism | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith; monks | 14 | |
| 291379913 | Afterlife | The next life, in which the dead are believed to live again | 15 | |
| 291379914 | Reincarnation | belief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form after death | 16 | |
| 291379915 | Missionaries | people sent out to carry a religious message; usually focuses on converting non-believers | 17 | |
| 291379916 | Pilgrims | people who take long journeys for religious reasons | 18 | |
| 291379917 | Filial | designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation | 19 | |
| 291379918 | Kinship groups | Early agricultural and technological development (about 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE) - Small groups of settlers grew into kinship-based villages that practiced both crop cultivation and domestication of animals. Tools and inventions helped villages to stabilize and eventually grow. | 20 | |
| 291379919 | Conversion | a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | 21 | |
| 291379920 | Priesthood | The character, office, or vocation of a priest | 22 | |
| 291379921 | Sacred Texts | books that give religious guidance to their respective groups ex. Bible, Qu'ran, and Torah | 23 | |
| 291379922 | Imperial | relating to or associated with an empire | 24 | |
| 291379923 | Feudal | relating to a system in which people (called "vassals") were given protection and the use of land, in return for loyalty, payments, and services to a lord | 25 | |
| 291379924 | The state | A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority. | 26 | |
| 291379925 | Empire | a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler | 27 | |
| 291379926 | Ideaology | cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangement, including patterns of inequality | 28 | |
| 291379927 | Bureaucracy | system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 29 | |
| 291379928 | Civil service | A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service. | 30 | |
| 291379929 | Social hierarchy | The division of society by rank or class | 31 | |
| 291379930 | stratification | the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | 32 | |
| 291379931 | inequality | an unfair situation in which some people have more rights or better opportunities than other people | 33 | |
| 291379932 | Patriarchy | a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | 34 | |
| 291379933 | Slavery | the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages | 35 | |
| 291379934 | Urban | relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area | 36 | |
| 291379935 | Tax revenue | the income that is gained by governments because of taxation of the people. | 37 | |
| 291379936 | Nobility | class of people having high birth or rank | 38 | |
| 291379937 | Elites | A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status. | 39 | |
| 291379938 | Autonomy | self-government, political control | 40 | |
| 291379939 | Citizen | A person with certain rights and responsibilities in his or her country or community | 41 | |
| 291379940 | Trade Goods | Materials, resources, or products traded for money or other goods between people/groups/nations etc. | 42 | |
| 291379941 | Role of nomads in trade | Nomads spread ideas from far away lands and traded new technology | 43 |
