7407956001 | Artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft | 0 | |
7407956002 | Caste | a division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, occupation, or race | 1 | |
7407956003 | Class | a group sharing the same economic or social status the working class | 2 | |
7407956004 | Egalitarianism | a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs | 3 | |
7407956005 | Elite | the socially superior part of society | 4 | |
7407956006 | Ethnicity | a particular ethnic affiliation or group | 5 | |
7407956007 | Extended Family | an extensive group of people who are related by blood or marriage or who otherwise regard themselves as a large family | 6 | |
7407956008 | Family | a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head | 7 | |
7407956009 | Gender | membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass | 8 | |
7407956010 | Stratify | to divide or arrange into classes, castes, or social strata | 9 | |
7407956011 | Immediate Family | a person's parents, brothers and sisters, husband or wife, and children | 10 | |
7407956012 | Kinship | a feeling of being connected to other people. | 11 | |
7407956013 | Polygamy | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare | 12 | |
7407956014 | Merchant | a buyer and seller of commodities for profit | 13 | |
7407956015 | Nationality | a people having a common origin, tradition, and language and capable of forming or actually constituting a nation-state | 14 | |
7407956016 | Nuclear Family | a family group that consists only of parents and children | 15 | |
7407956017 | Patriarchy | social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line | 16 | |
7407956018 | Social System | the formal organization of status and role that may develop among the members of a relatively small stable group | 17 | |
7407956019 | Administration | performance of executive duties | 18 | |
7407956020 | Authoritarianism | of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people | 19 | |
7407956021 | The balance of power | distribution of power between a central government and its subnational governments. | 20 | |
7407956022 | Bureaucracy | an administrative policy-making group | 21 | |
7407956023 | Casualty | serious or fatal accident | 22 | |
7407956024 | Centralize | to concentrate by placing power and authority in a center or central organization | 23 | |
7407956025 | City | an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village | 24 | |
7407956026 | City-State | an autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory | 25 | |
7407956027 | Consolidation | the process of uniting : the quality or state of being united; specifically : the unification of two or more corporations by dissolution of existing ones and creation of a single new corporation | 26 | |
7407956028 | Coup d'etat | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics | 27 | |
7407956029 | Decentralization | the dispersion or distribution of functions and powers | 28 | |
7407956030 | Monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person | 29 | |
7407956031 | Diplomacy | the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations | 30 | |
7407956032 | Imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor | 31 | |
7407956033 | Revolution | activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation | 32 | |
7407956034 | 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. | 33 | |
7407956035 | Institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character | 34 | |
7407956036 | Junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes; especially : a group of persons controlling a government especially after a revolutionary seizure of power | 35 | |
7407956037 | Mobilize | to assemble and make ready for war duty mobilizeall reserve forces for overseas duty | 36 | |
7407956038 | Monarch | a person who reigns over a kingdom or empire | 37 | |
7407956039 | Secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude | 38 | |
7407956040 | State | social potion | 39 | |
7407956041 | Suffrage | a vote given in deciding a controverted question or electing a person for an office or trust | 40 | |
7407956042 | Theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided | 41 | |
7407956043 | Rebellion | open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government | 42 | |
7407956044 | Empire | a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority | 43 | |
7407956045 | Region | an administrative area, division, or district | 44 | |
7407956046 | Climate | the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation | 45 | |
7407956047 | Demography | the statistical study of human populations especially with reference to size and density | 46 | |
7407956048 | Desert | land with usually sparse vegetation | 47 | |
7407956049 | Disease | a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms | 48 | |
7407956050 | Diaspora | the area outside ancient Palestine settled by Jews | 49 | |
7407956051 | Emigration | to leave one's place of residence or country to live elsewhere | 50 | |
7407956052 | Epidemic | affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time | 51 | |
7407956053 | Erosion | diminishing or destroing by degrees | 52 | |
7407956054 | Immigration | to come into a country of which one is not a native for permanent residence | 53 | |
7407956055 | Metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region | 54 | |
7407956056 | Migration | to move from one country, place, or locality to another | 55 | |
7407956057 | Monsoon | a periodic wind especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia | 56 | |
7407956058 | Pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population | 57 | |
7407956059 | Pathogen | a specific causative agent (such as a bacterium or virus) of disease | 58 | |
7407956060 | Population | the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region | 59 | |
7407956061 | Savanna | a tropical or subtropical grassland (as of eastern Africa or northern South America) containing scattered trees and drought-resistant undergrowth | 60 | |
7407956062 | Tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions | 61 | |
7407956063 | urban | of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city | 62 | |
7407956064 | Animism | belief in the existence of spirits separable from bodies | 63 | |
7407956065 | Culture | the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education | 64 | |
7407956066 | Cultural Diffusion | the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another. | 65 | |
7407956067 | Polytheism | belief in many Gods | 66 | |
7407956068 | Religion | a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices | 67 | |
7407956069 | Syncretism | the combination of different forms of belief or practice | 68 | |
7407956070 | Ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture | 69 | |
7407956071 | Indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment | 70 | |
7407956072 | Literate | ability to read and write | 71 | |
7407956073 | Missionary | a person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission | 72 | |
7407956074 | Monotheism | belief in one God | 73 | |
7407956075 | Philosophy | pursuit of wisdom | 74 | |
7407956076 | Agriculture | the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock | 75 | |
7407956077 | Domesticate | to bring into use in one's own country | 76 | |
7407956078 | Capitalism | an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, Commerce- interchange of ideas, opinions, or sentiments | 77 | |
7407956079 | Commodity | a product of agriculture or mining | 78 | |
7407956080 | Communism | a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production | 79 | |
7407956081 | Consumer | one that utilizes economic goods | 80 | |
7407956082 | Credit | the provision of money, goods, or services with the expectation of future payment | 81 | |
7407956083 | Consumer | one that utilizes economic goods | 82 | |
7407956084 | Credit | the provision of money, goods, or services with the expectation of future payment | 83 | |
7407956085 | Cultivate | circulation as a medium of exchange | 84 | |
7407956086 | Pastoral | devoted to or based on livestock raising | 85 | |
7407956087 | Nomad | an individual who roams about | 86 | |
7407956088 | Economic System | are the means by which countries and governments distribute resources and trade goods and services. | 87 | |
7407956089 | Export | to carry or send (something, such as a commodity) to some other place (such as another country) | 88 | |
7407956090 | Forage | search for provisions | 89 | |
7407956091 | Import | to bring (something, such as merchandise) into a place or country from another country | 90 | |
7407956092 | Industrialization | the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale | 91 | |
7407956093 | Irrigation | the watering of land by artificial means to foster plant growth | 92 | |
7407956094 | Monetization | to purchase (public or private debt) and thereby free for other uses moneys that would have been devoted to debt service | 93 | |
7407956095 | Surplus | the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied | 94 | |
7407956096 | Specialization of Labor | a powerful force in an economy, benefiting small and large businesses alike. Workers produce more when they occupy specialized roles, so businesses can offer higher quality products at lower prices. | 95 | |
7407956097 | Commercialization | to manage on a business basis for profit | 96 | |
7407956098 | Raw Material | crude or processed material that can be converted by manufacture, processing, or combination into a new and useful product | 97 |
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