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4. Chinese government official.
7. medical treatment, in which needles are inserted to the skin to relieve pains.
9. the belief that spirits and forces live within animals, objects, or dreams.
14. ruling family.
15. the blending of two or more cultures
16. the study of people and cultures through their material remains.
18. in Hindu belief, all the actions that can affect a person’s fate in the next life.
19. a person who studies how people lived in the past.
20. an object made by human beings.
23. moral standards for behavior.
24. a political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages.
27. the study of the origins and development of people and their societies.
28. respect for parents.

1. in traditional Indian society, an unchangeable social group into which a person is born.
2. the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth.
3. Period the era of prehistory that lasted from at least 2 million B.C. to about 9000 B.C; also called the Old Stone Age.
4. in the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks.
5. triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers.
6. relating to a society in
8. believing in many gods.
10. seasonal winds that regularly blow from a certain direction for part of the year.
11. family organization in which several generations share a common dwelling.
12. the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one person to another.
13. in Buddhism belief, union with the universe.
14. the spreading of the Jews beyond their historic homeland.
17. a holy day for rest and worship.
21. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds.
22. a binding agreement; specifically, in the Jewish tradition, the binding agreement God made with Abraham.
25. payment a bride’s family makes to the bridegroom.
26. in ancient Mesopotamia, a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city’s chief go or goddess.