Vocab - Regions And Religions

Question 1

Social hierarchy

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Patriarchy

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Pathogen

Answer 3

A bacterium, virus, etc. that causes disease

Question 4

Syncretic

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Coerced labor

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Diffusion

Answer 6

The spreading of some thing more widely

Question 7

Dissemination

Answer 7

The action of spreading some thing more widely

Question 8

Textiles

Answer 8

Materials made from fibers

Question 9

Merchant

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Pastoral

Answer 10

The keeping and grazing of sheep for cattle

Question 11

State formation

Answer 11

Development of a centralized government where one did not exist previously