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ap world history
vocab
Question | Answer |
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Agrarian | relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property: |
communal | used or owned by all members of a group or community |
filial | relating or appropriate to a child's relationship with, or feelings toward, his or her parents |
monarchy | a political system in which a state is ruled by a monarch |
pastoral | relating to the countryside or to rural life "pastoral living" |
subsistence | the condition of being or managing to stay alive |
archeology | the study of human activity in the past |
edifice | a building, especially a large or impressive one |
incarnation | somebody or something personifying |
nomadic | community of people who move from one place to another |
patriarch | was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family |
venerate | respect somebody |
city-state | is an independent or autonomous entity |
egalitarian | is a trend of thought that favors equality |
indigenous | originating in and characteristic of a particular region |
oracle | was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel |
sedentary | characterized by or requiring a sitting posture |
civilization | group of people in a culture |
era | long period of time |
metallurgy | study of metals |
pagan | religious traditions which are polytheistic or indigenous. |
stratification | is the building up of layers |