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