Vocab - Regions And Religions Flashcards

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Social hierarchy

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Social relationships between individuals and groups. An individual cannot be high-ranking without a lower ranking counterpart. 

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Patriarchy

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Social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men

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Pathogen

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A bacterium, virus, etc. that causes disease

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Syncretic

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Combining or bringing together of different philosophical, religious, or cultural principles and practices 

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Coerced labor

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Compelled against their will to work through the use of force, fraud or coercion 

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Diffusion

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The spreading of some thing more widely

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Dissemination

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The action of spreading some thing more widely

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Textiles

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Materials made from fibers

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Merchant

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A person involved in a wholesale trade supplying merchandise for a specific trade 

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Pastoral

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The keeping and grazing of sheep for cattle

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State formation

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Development of a centralized government where one did not exist previously 

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