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290813624	hunting-gathering	The killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, roots, nuts, and other plants for sustenance.	0
290813625	Domesticated plants and animals	to convert animals to be domestic for a reliable food source	1
290813626	Sedentary, Nomadic, Pastoral	(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently	2
290813627	Neolithic	a period when the hunting and gathering lifestyle gave way to permanent settlements and the tending of plants and animals.	3
290813628	Deity, Pantheon, Pagan	any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force	4
290813629	Caste System	a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society	5
290813630	Priest, Nun	a religious leader who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites	6
290813631	Monotheism, Polytheism	Mono- The worship of only one god. Poly- The worship of more than one god.	7
290813632	Monasticism, Celibacy	a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith	8
290813633	Reincarnation, Afterlife	belief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form after death	9
290813634	Missionaries, Pilgrims	people sent out to carry a religious message; also focuses on converting	10
290813635	Kinship groups, Filial	Early agricultural and technological development - 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.	11
290813636	Priesthood, Conversion	the body of ordained religious practitioners who helped bring people to their religion	12
290813637	Sacred Texts	books that give religious guidance to their respective groups Bible, Qu'ran, and Tora	13
290813638	Imperial, Feudal	When centeral power in the empire declined, 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	14
290813639	State, Empire, Ideology	a politically organized body of people under a single government with a system of social or political ideas	15
290813640	Bureaucracy; civil service	system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials	16
290813641	Social hierarchy; stratification; inequality	The division of society by rank or class, not chosen but put in a class due to job or birth	17
290813642	Patriarchy	a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line	18
290813643	Slavery	the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages	19
290813644	Urban	relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area	20