6999970214 | B.C.E, BC | (Before Common Era) or (Before Christ) the time period before the assumed birth year of Jesus. | 0 | |
6999984167 | C.E, AD | (Common Era) or (Anno Domini) the time period after the birth of Jesus | 1 | |
7000161780 | Abdicate | fail to fulfill or undertake (a responsibility or duty). | 2 | |
7000161781 | Accession | the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president. | 3 | |
7000163166 | Aesthetic | a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste | 4 | |
7000164401 | Agrarian | a person who advocates a redistribution of landed property, especially as part of a social movement. | 5 | |
7000204764 | Amenities | a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place. | 6 | |
7000204765 | Anarchy | a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. | 7 | |
7000205752 | Animism | the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. | 8 | |
7000205753 | Antiquity | the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages (Great Age) | 9 | |
7000206845 | Appeasement | a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict | 10 | |
7000206846 | Aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices. | 11 | |
7000210955 | Asceticism | is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.(frugal lifestyle) | 12 | |
7000212811 | Assimilate | Take in a new idea and fully understand it. | 13 | |
7000225706 | Authoritarian | favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. | 14 | |
7000225707 | Autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. | 15 | |
7000226654 | Barbarism | absence of culture and civilization. | 16 | |
7000230181 | Bureaucracy/Bureaucrats | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 17 | |
7000526730 | City-State | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | 18 | |
7000526731 | Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizenship. | 19 | |
7000527956 | Classical | between about the year 1730 and the year 1820 | 20 | |
7000527957 | Colonial | relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies. | 21 | |
7000527958 | Commerce | an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries or between different parts of the same country trade; business | 22 | |
7000529292 | Communal | . shared by all members of a community; for common use | 23 | |
7000593831 | Concubine | a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives. | 24 | |
7005750749 | Conscription | compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. | 25 | |
7005750750 | Cosmopolitan | familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures. | 26 | |
7005755339 | Coup | a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. | 27 | |
7005757669 | Demography/Demographic | Demography is the science of populations.three main demographic processes: birth, migration, and aging (including death). | 28 | |
7005758714 | Despot | a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat. | 29 | |
7005758715 | Diaspora | the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity. | 30 | |
7005758716 | Dissent | the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held. | 31 | |
7005759992 | Dissident | a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state | 32 | |
7005759993 | Domestic/Domesticate | existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international./tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce | 33 | |
7005762027 | Dynasty/Dynastic | a series of rulers from one family./relating to a succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field. | 34 | |
7005762028 | Edict | an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority. | 35 | |
7005762029 | Egalitarian | relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. | 36 | |
7005763087 | Elite | a group of persons exercising the major share of authority or influence within a larger group | 37 | |
7005763088 | Emigrate | leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another. | 38 | |
7005764144 | Epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. | 39 | |
7005765941 | Ethnocentric | evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture. | 40 | |
7005765942 | Feudalism | a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor. | 41 | |
7005765943 | Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 42 | |
7005767700 | Gentry | A group of people born into the high class "pure-bred" | 43 | |
7005767701 | Guild | an association of artisans or merchants who oversee the practice of their craft in a particular town. | 44 | |
7005769316 | Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 45 | |
7005769317 | Hominids | members are known as great apes[note 1] or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates | 46 | |
7005770752 | Homogenous | similar in position, structure, and evolutionary origin but not necessarily in function. | 47 | |
7005776715 | Ideology | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. | 48 | |
7005777893 | Imperial/Imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. | 49 | |
7005789335 | Indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place | 50 | |
7005789336 | Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | 51 | |
7005790198 | Lineage | lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree. | 52 | |
7005790199 | Linguistic | relating to language | 53 | |
7005790200 | Manifest | clear or obvious to the eye or mind. | 54 | |
7005791629 | Maritime | connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity. | 55 | |
7005791630 | Martial | of or appropriate to war; warlike. | 56 | |
7005791631 | Matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 57 | |
7005792559 | Mercenary | a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or party to the conflict and is motivated to take part in the hostilities by desire for private gain | 58 | |
7005800264 | Monarchy | a form of government in which a group, usually a family called the dynasty, embodies the country's national identity and one of its members, called the monarch, exercises a role of sovereignty | 59 | |
7005803807 | Monopoly/Monopolize | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. | 60 | |
7005803808 | Monotheism | the belief that there is only one God. | 61 | |
7005803809 | Mystical | relating to mystics or religious mysticism | 62 | |
7005805530 | Nation-state | a type of state that joins the political entity of a state to the cultural entity of a nation, from which it aims to derive its political legitimacy to rule and potentially its status as a sovereign state | 63 | |
7005805531 | Neo | a modified form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism. | 64 | |
7005805532 | Neolithic | Period or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC | 65 | |
7005807497 | Nomadic | people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock. | 66 | |
7005808482 | Oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. | 67 | |
7005808483 | Pantheon | a temple dedicated to all the gods. | 68 | |
7005810509 | Papal/Papacy | of or relating to a pope or to the Roman Catholic Church | 69 | |
7005814412 | Parliament/Parliamentary System | a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislative branch | 70 | |
7005814413 | Pastoral | is a lifestyle of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture | 71 | |
7005814414 | Patriarchal | Dominated by men. | 72 | |
7005816839 | Patrilineal | relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line | 73 | |
7005816840 | Patronage | the support given by a patron | 74 | |
7005816849 | Peasant | a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation | 75 | |
7005818411 | Pharaoh | the common title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt | 76 | |
7005818412 | Piety/Pious | the quality of being religious or reverent. | 77 | |
7005820099 | Polity | a form or process of civil government or constitution. | 78 | |
7005820100 | Polygamy | the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time. | 79 | |
7005823137 | Polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god. | 80 | |
7005823138 | Proselytize | convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another. | 81 | |
7005824810 | Provincial | concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded. | 82 | |
7005826630 | Regent | a person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor or is absent or incapacitated. | 83 | |
7005826631 | Republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. | 84 | |
7005829732 | Rhetoric/Rhetorical | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques./relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric. | 85 | |
7005829733 | Sedentary | tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive. | 86 | |
7005831162 | Serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. | 87 | |
7005831163 | Sharia | Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet prescribing both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties for law breaking. | 88 | |
7005831164 | Sinification | the process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society. | 89 | |
7005832631 | State | the territory, or one of the territories, of a government. | 90 | |
7005832632 | Steppe | an extensive plain, especially one without trees. | 91 | |
7005834028 | Stratification | a stratified state or appearance | 92 | |
7005834029 | Sub-Saharan | the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. | 93 | |
7005837598 | Subordinate | a person under the authority or control of another within an organization. | 94 | |
7005837599 | Succession | a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other | 95 | |
7005838446 | Syncretism | the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. | 96 | |
7005838447 | Textiles | a type of cloth or woven fabric. | 97 | |
7005839642 | Theocracy | a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives | 98 | |
7005839643 | Theology | the study of the nature of God and religious belief. | 99 | |
7005841319 | Totalitarian | relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. | 100 | |
7005841320 | Tributary State | is subordinate to a more powerful neighbor | 101 | |
7005842851 | Tyranny | cruel and oppressive government or rule. | 102 | |
7005842852 | Urban/Urbanize | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town./make or become urban in character. | 103 | |
7005844216 | Usurp | take a position of power or importance illegally or by force. | 104 | |
7005844217 | Vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 105 |
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