Dating & Historical Evidence
This abbreviation identifies years before the Common Era and uses the same dates as B.C.
What is B.C.E.?
Describing a government that demands obedience, concentrates power, and limits political freedom.
What is authoritarian?
The artistic style and ideas of beauty associated with a society or historical period.
What is an aesthetic?
A social system in which men hold most political, legal, economic, and family authority.
What is patriarchal?
Facilities and services—such as roads, baths, parks, and marketplaces—that make a community more comfortable or convenient.
What are amenities?
This abbreviation identifies years in the Common Era and uses the same calendar numbering as A.D.
What is C.E.?
A ruler with nearly unlimited power, especially one who governs cruelly or oppressively.
Who is a despot?
Describing a population whose members share many similar cultural, religious, linguistic, or ethnic characteristics.
What is homogeneous?
A system that traces family descent, inheritance, or clan membership through the mother’s family.
What is matrilineal?
Related to a province or to a region located outside a country’s political or cultural center.
What is provincial?
This term often describes the ancient Greek and Roman world or another highly influential period of a civilization.
What is classical?
Cruel, oppressive, or unjust rule in which power is exercised without meaningful legal limits.
What is tyranny?
Related to language or to the study of language and its development.
What is linguistic?
A person or group that is lower in rank or placed under the authority of another.
What is subordinate?
The financial support, employment, protection, or favors given by a powerful person to artists, officials, or followers.
What is patronage?
A disagreement between statements, ideas, or historical accounts that cannot all be accurate in the same way.
What is a contradiction?
Disagreement with an established government, policy, religious institution, or other authority.
What is dissent?
Originating in and maintaining long-standing cultural connections to a particular land or region.
What is Indigenous?
A woman who had a recognized relationship with a man but possessed a lower legal or social rank than an official wife.
Who is a concubine?
An organized set of beliefs about government, economics, society, and how political power should be used.
What is an ideology?
The statistical study of populations, including their size, composition, birth rates, death rates, and migration patterns.
What is demography?
A person who openly challenges an established political, religious, or ideological system.
Who is a dissident?
Describing a diverse city or society containing people, customs, and ideas from many different parts of the world.
What is cosmopolitan?
A privileged social class that traditionally gained power through noble birth, inherited wealth, or land ownership.
What is an aristocracy?
The office, authority, and institution of leadership held by the pope within the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the papacy?