Vocabulary
A skilled worker trained in a specific craft.
What is an artisan?
Statistical data related to the population and specific groups in the population. (Examples include gender, ethnicity, age groups, occupations).
What are demographics?
The science, art or practice of cultivating soil, producing crops and raising livestock. AKA farming.
What is agriculture?
The influence and blending of religious teachings and practices. This has led to the founding of new religions with origins in the ones that came before them.
What is syncretism?
This theme encompasses (includes) but is not limited to the languages people speak, clothing they wear, religions they follow, societal hierarchies, food they eat, their architecture, family structures, art, literacy and education.
What is Theme 2 - cultural developments and interactions?
The holding of extreme political or religious views, a synonym is fanaticism.
What is extremism?
The system by which people are ranked in society according to their status or authority.
What is hierarchy?
What is indigenous?
The action of trying to spread a religion by converting new people to join through preaching and traveling to gain followers.
What is proselytizing?
This theme involves how humans exist and how they are effected by their natural surroundings as well as how they effect their natural surrounding with their populations.
What is Theme 1 - Humans and the Environment?
A widely held belief that is false or has loosely been based upon truth and then added falsehoods or supernatural events. This was often done to explain natural phenomenon when humans did not have scientific answers to natural occurrences.
What is a myth?
Good and resources that are bought, sold and traded because they have value and usefulness.
What are commodities?
Female dominated society and laws.
What is matriarchy, matriarchal?
Ancient monotheistic belief system that originated in Persia; still practiced today but not in large numbers.
What is Zoroastrianism?
This theme addresses how and why states are formed, what people are in charge of them, what laws are created, borders are created and how they rise and fall over the course of history, as well as what types of governments are instituted.
What is Theme 3 - Governance?
Related to societies of people that were semi-nomadic because they followed the migration patterns of their animal herds (such as sheep and cattle).
What is pastoral?
Non-religious; not affiliated with religion.
What is secular?
What is patriarchy/patriarchal?
Ancient monotheistic belief system that originated in the Levant. The earliest of the Abrahamic faiths.
What is Judaism?
Floods, earthquakes, droughts, deforestation, air pollution and global warming.
What is Theme 1 - Humans and the Environment?
To treat someone with hostility and ill treatment. This is frequently due to ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, political views, religious affiliation, disabilities, and income levels.
What is to persecute?
Religious, affiliated with a religion.
What is non-secular?
Societies that have men and women as equal partners and are equal under the laws.
What is egalitarian?
Ancient polytheistic belief system originating in Northern India and still widely practiced there and elsewhere where there are people of Indian ancestry.
What is Hinduism?
Taxation, law codes, emperors, democracy, monarchies, borders.
What is Theme 3 - Governance?