History Flashcards
Egalitarian
Everyone is equal no matter race, gender, age, or religion.
Kinship Group
a family, clan, or other group based on kinship.
Pastoralist
When someone domesticated sheep, cattle, and goat and farms them.
Social Stratification
A social structure that classifies people from what there were born in, and they cannot leave it.
Job specialization
Splitting up labor between people to what you can do so that you can get work done faster and better
Animism
believing that you are one with the earth, and you should only take what you need.
Diaspora
When a group of people are away from their traditional land and they share cultural and regional origins.
Polytheism
the belief of multiple Gods
Cultural diffusion
spreading culture throughout the world through trade routes and such.
Bureaucracy
Using a large number of officials to follow rules carefully and run a government.