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Upper middle class of wealthy educated farmers from successful class

AKA- farm/land-owning class

Gentry

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Belief in one god

Monotheism

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a spiritual sense beyond human understanding

Mystical

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-Exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service

-Exclusive control by one party/person

Monopoly

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A government ruled by a queen or king

Monarchy

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a professional soldier hired to serve a foreign army

Mercenary

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Adj: Local area that has a simple and plain design, seen as limited that originated in the countryside

Provincial

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Language or Dialect spoken by ordinary people in a particular country or region

Vernacular

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Connected with the sea in relation to seafaring commerically or military activity

Maritime

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take(position of power or importance) illegally or by force

Usurp

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A government in which power is held by nobility, and can be the highest class in societies

Aristocracy

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(politics) granting favors or making appointments in office in return for political support

Financial aid that organization bestows to another

Patronage

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of the same or a similar kind or nature

Homogenous

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originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native

Indigenous

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a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother

Matrilineal

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warlike; relating to the military

Martial

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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

Nation-state

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new

Neo

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Relating to the later part of the Stone Age, that introduced agriculture

Neolithic
Neo = New
Lithic = Stone

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wondering from place to place

Nomadic

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A small group of people having control of a government

Oligarchy

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System of government that have executive powers composed of members that are responsible for the legislature
Example: Great Britain

Parliamentary system
Parliament-legislative body

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of all gods

-Former Roman temple, a catholic church in Rome, Italy.

Pantheon

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office or authority of the pope

Papal/papacy

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-Relating to keeping of sheep or cattle -concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance

Pastoral

dominated by men

Patriarchal

based on or tracing descent through the male line

Patrilineal

-The quality of being ancient or antique-like

Antiquity

Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation to prevent war.

Appeasment

a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place, a luxury

Amenities

a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. a society with no rulers

Anarchy

Belief that objects, places and creatures posses a distinct spiritual essence

Animism

the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power

Accession

A lifestyle of abstinence from sensual pleasures, usually to pursue spiritual goals

Asceticism

concerning farms, farmers or the use of land relating to agriculture

Agrarian

Branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste

Aesthetic

Taking traits of a dominant culture to a degree where the group fits in with the other society Ex- immigrants "white-washed" to fit in

Assimilate

A government in which one leader or group holds the absolute power

Authoritarian

A system of government by one person of absolute power

Autocracy

of the unlike or a different kind of nature

Heterogeneous

A group organized by rank

Hierarchy

having more than one spouse at one time

Polygamy

devoutly religious

Piety/Pious

an organized society having a specific form of government

Polity

A ruler with absolute power of tyrannical control over a group of people

Despot

sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government

Coup

A statistical study of human populations

demography

A large group of people that share origins and live outside traditional homeland for variety of reasons

Diaspora

A dissatisfaction with the opposition the policies of the governing body

Dissent

A person who opposes official policy, especially those of an authoritarian state

Dissident

belief in many gods

Polytheism

To convert someone to a faith, belief or cause

Proselytize

A form of government in which citizens chose their leaders by voting

Republic

A person appointed to administer a country as the monarch is absent or incapacitated

Regent

the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion

Rhetoric(al)

living in groups permanently in one place

Sedentary

A person bound to the land and owed to the feudal lord

Serf

Set of Islamic religious law that governs aspects of daily life for Muslims/religious rituals

Sharia

Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in another region

Sinification

A national territory considered as an organized political community under one government

State

sparse, dry, treeless grassland

Steppe

to tame, to bring plants or animals under human control.

Domesticate

A line of hereditary rulers of a country relating to a line of hereditary rulers of a country.

Dynasty Dynastic

An order issued by someone in authority

Edict

Believing that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and equal opportunities

Egalitarian

A select group that is superior in abilities and qualities to the rest of a group of society

Elite

society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors

Stratification

order in which the conditions under which one person after another succeeds to a property, dignity, position, title, or throne.

Succession

from or forming part of the Africans regions south of the Sahara desert

Sub-Saharan

Adj: lower in rank or position, secondary N: one who is a lower position or under the orders of someone

Subordinate

basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society enterprise

Infrastructure

Blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith

Syncretism

A type of cloth or woven fabric

Textiles

scientific study or language and its stature

Linguistic

lineal descent from an ancestor, ancestry or pedigree

Lineage

state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service

Conscription

document listing cargo, passenger, for use of customs and officials

Manifest

things that stay the same, relatively unchanged long-standing traditions cultural values or political systems despite other changes in the area

Continuity

to confirm, make more certain

Corroboration

Before common era, Before Christ

B.C.E

to renounce

Abdicate

Common or Christian era, A.D

C.E

A political system in an independent city having control over contiguous territory A city functioning as its own state

City-state

The study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society

Civic

Relating to ancient Greek or Latin art, culture and literature

Classical

Consistent set of beliefs by groups/people

Ideology

craftmen and merchants formed to promote the economic interests of their members as well as to provide protection and mutual aid

Guild

A policy of extending a countries power influence through diplomacy or military force rule by an emperor

Imperial(ism)

system of governments where state officials have more important decisions rather than elected representatives

Bureucracy(bureaucrats)

relating to or characteristics of a colony colony- a group of people who settle in a new place and keep ties to their homeland

Colonial

someone perceived to be uncivilized or primitive a person from foriegn land, culture or group believed to be violent, inferior or uncivilized

Barbarism

the buying and selling of goods

Commerce

shared by all members of a community/common use

Communal

a woman living with a man, lower status than wife or wives extramarital sexual relationship

Concubine

a species on human branch of the evolutionary tree, member of Hominidae

Hominids

A deny, in the truth of a statement by saying the opposite to be in conflict with

Contradiction

a member of a class who are small farmers or laborer of low social rank

Peasant

a government controlled by religious leader

Theocracy

places that are diverse or bustling with varying nationalities

Cosmopolitan

a ruler of ancient Egypt

Pharaoh

independent state that acknowledges the supremacy of another and pay tributes to its ruler

Tributary State

cruel and oppressive government or ruler

Tyranny

study of religion

Theology

relating to a system of government that centralized and dictatorial, requiring complete subservice to the state

Totalitarian

relating to or characteristics of a city or town

Urban(ize)

leaving your own country in one to permanently in another

Emigrate

a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

Epic

believing in superiority of one's own ethnic or cultural group, disdaining other groups

Ethnocentric

a system in which people were given land and protection by higher ranks, and worked and fought in return ~dominant social system in medieval Europe

Feudalism

deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Genocide

(of an animal) tame and kept by humans.

Domestic

statistics that describe populations and their characteristics

Demographic

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