Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. 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.
  2. 5. Institutions: systems of organization such as government, religion, social structure, and economic systems and trade networks
  3. 9. Revolution: a gradual change from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands to agriculture and settlement. This period is described as a "revolution" because it changed the way of life of communities which made the change.
  4. 10. Hierarchy: any system where groups of people are ranked one above another. Examples: poor, middle class, wealthy
  5. 12. 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.
  6. 14. the process of concentrating on and becoming expert in a particular subject or skill.
  7. 15. a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies. Among the most famous are the great independent cities of the ancient world, such as Athens, Sparta, Carthage, Thebes, Corinth, and Rome.
  8. 17. Road: a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
  9. 19. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
  10. 20. the governing body of a nation, state, or community.
  11. 22. 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.
  12. 23. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
  13. 25. the transmission of elements or features of one culture to another.
Down
  1. 1. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
  2. 3. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
  3. 4. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
  4. 5. the reduction of unwritten customs or case law to statutory form (written law).
  5. 6. of written language: Latin alphabet, Chinese characters, Arabic alphabet, Devanagari, The Bengali alphabet.
  6. 7. 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.
  7. 8. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
  8. 11. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
  9. 13. a line of hereditary rulers of a country.
  10. 16. the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
  11. 18. machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge
  12. 21. the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.
  13. 24. the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods