Terms List

Question 1

Relating the cultural time period of the old Stone Age, beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools (-3 million years ago)

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Paleolithic

Question 2

Relating to or belonging to the era before recorded (written) history.

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Prehistoric

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Nomadic or semi-nomadic herding and breeding of sheeps, goats, or other animals

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Pastoralism

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Made when two or more people (or groups of people) invent the same thing without knowledge of what the other is doing; historical parallelism

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Independent invention

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The spreading out of culture or cultural attributes from one area to another

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Cultural diffusion

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Of or relating to the latter cultural period of the Stone Age beginning - 10,000 BCE (w/ farming)

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Neolithic

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Of or relating to a city

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Urban

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Of or relating to an empire or an emperor

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Imperial

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An offshoot or branch or a religion

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Sect

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The combining of different, often seemingly contradiction; blending of two or more religious belief systems

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Syncretism

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Adhering to the accepted of traditional especially in religion with connotation of strictly obeying the rules or codes

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Orthodox

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Ruling or dominant in a political or social context

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Hegemonic

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Payment to a ruler in acknowledgement of submission or as a price of protection

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Tribute

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Process of systemizing or condensing into a list of rules, laws, or norms

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Codification

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Relations to the idea of equality among people

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Egalitarian

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Not relating to religious sacred matters

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Secular

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Economic policy dominant in Europe from the 16th-18th century that promoted the accumulation of monetary reserve and the exporting of finished goods

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Mercantilism

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A business entity which is owned by the shareholders each shareholder owns the proportion of the company in proportion to his or her ownership of the company’s shares

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Joint stock company

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Movement of goods wealth laborers and the mixing or African and European cultures/peoples

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Atlantic system

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Reflecting a range of many different cultural influences ; incorporating elements from all over the world or from many different parts of the world

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Cosmopolitan

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Describing different levels of caste class, privilege or status

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Stratified

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A marketable item or product a trade good

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Commodity

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Islamic law

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Sharia

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Area of land ruled by mongol leader

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Khanate

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A large area of flat, un forested grassland

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Steppe

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A worldwide society or community of christians

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Christendom

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Code of honors morally developed by the Japanese samurai

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Bushido

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A person put to death because they refused to renounce or give up their beliefs, dies because of faith

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Martyr

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Set of principles guiding an artistic movement of artistic attributes

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Aesthetic

Question 30

Relating to the idea of equality among people

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Egalitarian