10566476972 | Agriculture | the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock | 0 | |
10566476973 | Monarchy | supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person. | 1 | |
10566476974 | Absolute Monarchy | a monarchy that is not limited or restrained by laws or a constitution | 2 | |
10566476975 | Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility, mostly upper class | 3 | |
10566476976 | Bureaucracy | A system of managing government through departments run by APPOINTED OFFICIALS | 4 | |
10566476977 | Chiefdom | a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship, and in which formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families or 'houses' | 5 | |
10566476978 | city-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. | 6 | |
10566476979 | Coup de tat | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially : the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group | 7 | |
10566476980 | Democracy | A form of government in which citizens govern themselves | 8 | |
10566476981 | Dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family | 9 | |
10566476982 | hereditary monarch | a ruler who is the son or younger relative of the previous ruler | 10 | |
10566476983 | King | highest-ranking leader of a group of people (male) | 11 | |
10566476984 | Queen | Highest-ranking leader of a group of people (female) | 12 | |
10566476985 | Ruler | a person who rules or governs; sovereign. | 13 | |
10566476986 | Emperor | the ruler of an empire | 14 | |
10566476987 | Matriarchy | A society ruled or controlled by women | 15 | |
10566476988 | Patriarchy | a society ruled or controlled by men | 16 | |
10566476989 | Oligarchy | A government ruled by a few powerful people | 17 | |
10566476990 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 18 | |
10566476991 | Revolution | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. | 19 | |
10566476992 | gender roles | Expectations about what is appropriate behavior for each sex. | 20 | |
10566476993 | indentured servant | A person who is bonded or contracted to work for another for a specified time | 21 | |
10566476994 | Merchant | A person who makes money by selling goods | 22 | |
10566476995 | Nobility | a class of people having high birth or rank | 23 | |
10566476996 | peasant | a poor farm worker | 24 | |
10566476997 | Rural | Countryside | 25 | |
10566476998 | Scribe | a person who writes things down | 26 | |
10566476999 | Serfs | peasants and poor farmers who lived on and farmed land in feudal times. | 27 | |
10566477000 | Shaman | a person believed to have the power to summon spirits and heal the sick | 28 | |
10566477001 | Slave | a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. | 29 | |
10566477002 | Urban | city | 30 | |
10566477003 | Afterlife | life after death | 31 | |
10566477004 | Caste | a rigid and hereditary social class | 32 | |
10566477005 | Deities | gods and goddesses | 33 | |
10566477006 | Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writing. | 34 | |
10566477007 | gods | a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity. | 35 | |
10566477008 | Karma | in Hindu belief, the sum of good and bad actions in one's present and past lives | 36 | |
10566477009 | Mandate of Heaven | in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority | 37 | |
10566477010 | Monotheism | Belief in one God | 38 | |
10566477011 | Mummification | embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | 39 | |
10566477012 | Mythology | A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works | 40 | |
10566477013 | Oracle bones | Used to predict the future | 41 | |
10566477014 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 42 | |
10566477015 | Pyramid | Huge, triangular shaped burial tombs of Egyptian pharaohs built during the Old Kingdom | 43 | |
10566477016 | Ritual | relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony | 44 | |
10566477017 | Sati | a former practice in India whereby a widow threw herself onto her husband's funeral pyre. | 45 | |
10566477018 | sacrifice | an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure. | 46 | |
10566477019 | Scripture | sacred writings | 47 | |
10566477020 | Temples | a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence. | 48 | |
10566477021 | Yah weh | Another name form God | 49 | |
10566477022 | Ziggurats | temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped | 50 |
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