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| culture | a particular form or stage of civilization
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| aqueduct | artificial channel for conducting water from a distance
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| tyrant | any person in a position of authority who uses power unjustly or oppressively
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| alliance | a merging or efforts ideas or interests by many different people or groups
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| empire | a group of nations or people ruled over by an emperor or other powerful government
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| city-state | a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies
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| polytheism | the belief of more than one god or in many gods
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| monotheism | the belief that there is only one god
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| democracy | government by the people; form of government where supreme power is vested in the people (free electoral system)
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| republic | supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to cote and is exercised by representatives chosen by them
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| dictatorship | a country, government, or for of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator or ruler
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| oligarchy | form of government in which all power is vested in a few people or in a dominant class or clique
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| aristocracy | a class of people holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility
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| democratic-republic | a form of government embodying democratic principles and where monarch is not head of state
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| monarchy | nation in which supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch; supreme power held by one single person
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| constitutional monarchy | form of government where power of monarch is limited by a parliment buy law or custom
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| Mixed economy | an economy in which there are elements of both public and private enterprise
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| market economy | a capitalistic economic sustem where there is free competition and prices are determined by supply and demand.
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| command economy | a socialist economic system where production and distribution of goods and services are controlled by the government and industry is mostly publicly owned
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| Hammurabi's code | a long set of rules or laws chisled onto a collum of stone by King Hammurabi
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| civil law | body of laws of a state or nation regulating ordinary private matters, as distinct from laws regulating criminal, political, or military matters
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| constitutional law |
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| administrative law | body of rules and principles that governs the duties and operations of federal or state administrative agencies, as commissions and boards.
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| archeology | scientific study of material remains of past human life and activities
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| anthropology | science of human beings; study of humans and ancestors through time and space and in relation to the environment and culture.
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| Fertile Crescent | semicircle of fertile land stretching from south east coast of Mediterranean around Syrian desert north of Arabia to Persian Gulf
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| cuneiform | having the shape of a wedge; composed or written in wedge shaped characters
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| hierarchy | a ruling body of clergy organized in orders of ranks each subordate to the one above it; especially: the bishops of a province or nation
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| golden age | a period of great happiness, prosperity, and achievement
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