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Upper middle class of wealthy educated farmers from successful class

AKA- farm/land-owning class

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Gentry

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Belief in one god

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Monotheism

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a spiritual sense beyond human understanding

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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

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Monopoly

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A government ruled by a queen or king

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Monarchy

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a professional soldier hired to serve a foreign army

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Mercenary

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

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Provincial

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

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Vernacular

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

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Maritime

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

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Usurp

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

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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

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Patronage

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of the same or a similar kind or nature

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Homogenous

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originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native

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Indigenous

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

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Matrilineal

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warlike; relating to the military

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Martial

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

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Nation-state

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new

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Neo

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

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Neolithic
Neo = New
Lithic = Stone

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wondering from place to place

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Nomadic

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A small group of people having control of a government

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Oligarchy

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

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Parliamentary system
Parliament-legislative body

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of all gods

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

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Pantheon

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office or authority of the pope

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Papal/papacy

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-Relating to keeping of sheep or cattle

-concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance

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Pastoral

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dominated by men

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Patriarchal

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based on or tracing descent through the male line

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Patrilineal

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-The quality of being ancient or antique-like

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Antiquity

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

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Appeasment

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

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Amenities

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a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.

a society with no rulers

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Anarchy

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

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Animism

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the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power

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Accession

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

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Asceticism

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

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Agrarian

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Branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste

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Aesthetic

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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

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Assimilate

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

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Authoritarian

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A system of government by one person of absolute power

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Autocracy

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of the unlike or a different kind of nature

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Heterogeneous

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A group organized by rank

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Hierarchy

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37
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having more than one spouse at one time

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Polygamy

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38
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devoutly religious

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Piety/Pious

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an organized society having a specific form of government

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Polity

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

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Despot

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sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government

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Coup

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A statistical study of human populations

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demography

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

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Diaspora

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A dissatisfaction with the opposition the policies of the governing body

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Dissent

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

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Dissident

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belief in many gods

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Polytheism

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To convert someone to a faith, belief or cause

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Proselytize

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

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Republic

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

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Regent

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

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Rhetoric(al)

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living in groups permanently in one place

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Sedentary

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

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Serf

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

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Sharia

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Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in another region

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Sinification

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

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State

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sparse, dry, treeless grassland

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Steppe

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

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Domesticate

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A line of hereditary rulers of a country

relating to a line of hereditary rulers of a country.

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Dynasty
Dynastic

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An order issued by someone in authority

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Edict

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

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Egalitarian

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

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Elite

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

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Stratification

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

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Succession

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

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Sub-Saharan

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Adj: lower in rank or position, secondary

N: one who is a lower position or under the orders of someone

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Subordinate

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

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Infrastructure

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Blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith

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Syncretism

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A type of cloth or woven fabric

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Textiles

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scientific study or language and its stature

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Linguistic

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lineal descent from an ancestor, ancestry or pedigree

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Lineage

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state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service

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Conscription

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

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Manifest

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things that stay the same, relatively unchanged

long-standing traditions cultural values or political systems despite other changes in the area

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Continuity

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to confirm, make more certain

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Corroboration

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Before common era, Before Christ

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B.C.E

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to renounce

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Abdicate

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Common or Christian era, A.D

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C.E

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A political system in an independent city having control over contiguous territory

A city functioning as its own state

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City-state

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The study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society

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Civic

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Relating to ancient Greek or Latin art, culture and literature

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Classical

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Consistent set of beliefs by groups/people

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Ideology

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

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Guild

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A policy of extending a countries power influence through diplomacy or military force

rule by an emperor

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Imperial(ism)

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

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Bureucracy(bureaucrats)

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relating to or characteristics of a colony

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

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Colonial

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someone perceived to be uncivilized or primitive

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

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Barbarism

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the buying and selling of goods

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Commerce

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shared by all members of a community/common use

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Communal

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

extramarital sexual relationship

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Concubine

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

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Hominids

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A deny, in the truth of a statement by saying the opposite

to be in conflict with

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Contradiction

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

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Peasant

90
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a government controlled by religious leader

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Theocracy

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places that are diverse or bustling with varying nationalities

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Cosmopolitan

92
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a ruler of ancient Egypt

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Pharaoh

92
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independent state that acknowledges the supremacy of another and pay tributes to its ruler

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Tributary State

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cruel and oppressive government or ruler

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Tyranny

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study of religion

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Theology

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

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Totalitarian

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relating to or characteristics of a city or town

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Urban(ize)

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leaving your own country in one to permanently in another

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Emigrate

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a long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

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Epic

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

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Ethnocentric

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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

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Feudalism

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deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

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Genocide

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(of an animal) tame and kept by humans.

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Domestic

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statistics that describe populations and their characteristics

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Demographic

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