World History--Unit 2: Global Tapestry Terms

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  1. 3. 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. 6. Latin alphabet, Chinese characters, Arabic alphabet, The Bengali alphabet.
  3. 7. a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority
  4. 9. 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.
  5. 12. a relatively high level of cultural and technological development
  6. 13. the reduction of unwritten customs or case law to statutory form (written law).
  7. 16. systems of organization such as government, religion, social structure, and economic systems and trade networks
  8. 18. the act or process of domesticating something or someone or the state of being domesticated
  9. 22. a worker who practices a trade or handicraft
  10. 23. a system of social hierarchy specific to India, which still exists today.
  11. 24. any system where groups of people are ranked one above another. Examples: poor, middle class, wealthy
  12. 25. the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization
  13. 26. a succession of rulers of the same line of descent
  14. 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.
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  1. 1. undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person
  2. 2. 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.
  3. 4. 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. 5. a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
  5. 8. the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area
  6. 10. the transmission of elements or features of one culture to another.
  7. 11. ancient trade route that extended from eastern China to the Mediterranean Sea
  8. 14. a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object
  9. 15. a making or becoming specialized
  10. 17. 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.
  11. 19. the doctrine or belief that there is but one God
  12. 20. government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class
  13. 21. belief in or worship of more than one god