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| 7090480122 | annexation | The act of adding to something larger, especially the incorporation of new territory into the domain of a city, country, or state. | 0 | |
| 7090480976 | aristocracy | A class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility. | 1 | |
| 7090483579 | autocracy | Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch. | 2 | |
| 7090487544 | bourgeoisie | A class that consists of persons whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability. the middle class. | 3 | |
| 7090489139 | bronze and iron metallurgy | The technique of making and compounding alloys (a substance composes of two or more materials). In this case, to create bronze and iron alloys compose of many different metal substances. | 4 | |
| 7090493871 | bureaucracy | A government consists of bodies of officials, administrators, and departments. | 5 | |
| 7090494447 | capitalism | An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations. Another term for this is Market Economy. | 6 | |
| 7090494994 | caste system | A rigid system of hereditary social distinctions which has pre-modern origin in India. | 7 | |
| 7090495480 | cartel | An international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business. | 8 | |
| 7090495844 | centralized government | A government in which the authority and responsibility of governing rests with a small group at the highest level. | 9 | |
| 7090497057 | city-state | A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 10 | |
| 7090497557 | civilization | 1. An advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. Or those people or nations that have reached such a state. 2. Cities or populated areas in general. | 11 | |
| 7090497961 | coercive labor | A forced labor system as in slavery or an indentured laborer (a slave guaranteed freedom after service). | 12 | |
| 7090498405 | command economy | A socialist economic system in which production and distribution of goods and services are controlled by the government and industry is mostly publicly owned. | 13 | |
| 7090498406 | commodities | Something of use, advantage, or value (goods and products). | 14 | |
| 7090499071 | communism | A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party. | 15 | |
| 7090500234 | coup d'etat | A sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force. | 16 | |
| 7090500980 | cultural diffusion | The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another. Such as through different ethnicities, religions and nationalities. | 17 | |
| 7090502043 | decentralized government | A type of government that disperses power over a legislative body instead of maintaining power among a few individuals. There's the existence of several smaller governing bodies, which are elected through voting and have the power to exercise political decision-making at a local level. | 18 | |
| 7090502498 | democracy | Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. | 19 | |
| 7090502499 | diasporas | The scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity. | 20 | |
| 7090505779 | dynasty | A sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group. | 21 | |
| 7090506305 | 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 a kingdom. | 22 | |
| 7090506716 | entrepreneurship | The process of designing, launching and running a new business, which typically begins as a small business, such as a startup company, offering a product, process or service for sale or hire. | 23 | |
| 7090507103 | ethnocentrism | The belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture. | 24 | |
| 7090507964 | extended family system | A type of family in which relatives in addition to parents and children (such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins) live in a single household. | 25 | |
| 7090508295 | feudalism | The political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in exchange for service or labor between king and vassals. | 26 | |
| 7090509261 | filial piety | The important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members. | 27 | |
| 7090509971 | genocide | The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. | 28 | |
| 7090510962 | globalization | Growth to a global or worldwide scale. | 29 | |
| 7090511567 | hegemony | Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation. | 30 | |
| 7090513187 | ideology | The body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group. | 31 | |
| 7090514318 | infrastructure | The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools. | 32 | |
| 7090514739 | interdependence | The quality or condition of being mutually reliant on each other. | 33 | |
| 7090514740 | market economy | A capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand. | 34 | |
| 7090516221 | matriarchy | A form of social organization in which the mother is head of the family, and in which descent is reckoned in the female line, the children belonging to the mother's clan. | 35 | |
| 7090516222 | mercantilism | Practices engaged in trade and commerce. | 36 | |
| 7090518692 | monotheism | The belief in one god. | 37 | |
| 7090519877 | nationalism | Devotion and loyalty to one's own country; patriotism. | 38 | |
| 7090520527 | nation-state | A sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality. | 39 | |
| 7090521005 | nuclear family system | A family unit composed of two parents and one or more children. | 40 | |
| 7090522346 | pastoralism | The practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society. | 41 | |
| 7090522856 | patriarchal | Characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. | 42 | |
| 7090523236 | periodization | An act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study. | 43 | |
| 7090523237 | polytheism | The belief in many gods. | 44 | |
| 7090524063 | pre-Columbian | Of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. | 45 | |
| 7090524064 | primary source | An artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study. | 46 | |
| 7090525051 | proletariat | The class of wage earners who earn their living by manual labor or dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class. | 47 | |
| 7090526250 | scholar-gentry | Civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912. | 48 | |
| 7090527042 | secondary source | Any source of information that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching. | 49 | |
| 7090527498 | secular | Worldly | 50 | |
| 7090527974 | Silk Road | An ancient network of trade routes that connected regions of Eurasia and the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea. | 51 | |
| 7090529467 | sinification | A process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society. | 52 | |
| 7090529861 | slavery | The keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. | 53 | |
| 7090529862 | social stratification | A society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political). | 54 | |
| 7090530807 | hierarchy | Any system of persons or things ranked one above another. | 55 | |
| 7090530808 | socialism | An economic system based on state ownership of capital. | 56 | |
| 7090531477 | 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. | 57 | |
| 7090532260 | terrace farming | A type of farming involves the use of steps that are built into the side of a mountain or hill and contain planted crops. | 58 |
