Global Tapestry

2. a representation of language by writing - Chinese characters, Arabic alphabet, the Bengali alphabet
6. a trade route that linked China with the west.
7. systems of organization like government, religion, social structure, and economic systems and trade works.
8. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
11. specializing a certain line of work .
14. any system where groups of people are ranked one above another.
17. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
19. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
21. the political control exercised over citizens of communities, societies, and states.
22. anything made by humans.
23. the process of taming an animal for human use
25. the transmission of elements or features of one culture to another.
26. a worker in skilled trade.
27. a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by religious authorities.

1. a class of people that hold an exceptional rank.
3. beliefs that concern the cause and purpose of the universe.
4. a gradual change from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands to agriculture and settlement, described as a revolution.
5. the area of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their relations to life.
9. a set of rulers from the same family.
10. the advanced state of human society.
12. group of nations or people ruled by a powerful sovereign.
13. the belief that there's only one god.
15. a system of social hierarchy specific to India.
16. a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies.
18. the belief in more than one god.
20. the reduction of unwritten customs or case law to statutory form (written law).
24. a state or nation where the supreme power is given the monarch.