Religious vocabulary
Followers of a religion. In particular, the earliest followers of Christianity were referred to as this.
What are disciples?
A system of organization where laws or regulatory authority are implemented by civil servants or non-elected officials. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials.
What is bureaucracy?
To achieve success and prosper.
What is to flourish?
Gupta, Mauryan.
What is India aka South Asia?
Including people from many different countries.
What is cosmopolitan?
A messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission. aka a diplomat
What is an envoy?
A person on a religious journey to share their religion with others and convert them.
What is a missionary?
The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
What is infrastructure?
Profitable.
What is lucrative?
Europe, North Africa, the Levant.
What is the Roman Empire?
To grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way.
What is to flourish?
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.
What is a canal?
What is a monastery?
An independent state made up of a city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
The spread of a group of people away from their original homeland due to migrations (some forced, some not).
What is a diaspora?
Yucatan Peninsula (in Mexico) as well as Central America.
What is the Mayan Empire?
A worker who practices a specialized trade or handicraft; a Craftsperson.
What is an artisan?
A formal division in or separation from a church or religious body.
What is a schism?
A belief system that seeks to be applicable to all people, regardless of their location or culture, and actively tries to gain converts through missionary work and the promotion of its teachings to a wide audience. Examples include Buddhism and Christianity.
What is a universalizing religion?
A political system where power and decision-making authority are concentrated in a central government or national entity, rather than being dispersed among regional or local authorities
What is a centralized state?
A coastal trading center/city.
What is an entrepôt?
Qin, Han Dynasties.
What is China?
Phrases that have a different figurative meaning than the actual literal meaning of the words placed together.
What is an idiom?
A type of cloth or woven fabric.
What is a textile?
Hinduism is described as an elastic religion for these reasons.
What are it has existed and expanded for well over 3000 years, is still practiced, and has adapted to changes and has a wide variety of different interpretations and practices?
A system where ultimate authority and power are concentrated in a single, national governing body, rather than being distributed among different regions or local areas.
What is centralized government?
An activity or organization controlled by a single authority or managed in one place.
What is centralized?
Eastern Europe (was also the Eastern half of the Roman Empire once it was divided in half), the Levant, North Africa, the Middle East, Anatolia.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The statistical data about a population and the particular groups within it.
What are demographics?
The territory, land, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess. It is a historical term, primarily associated with European feudal states, and is synonymous with dukedom.
What is a duchy?
A person who has been sent to a foreign country to teach their religion to the people who live there.
What is a missionary?
A system for controlling or managing a city-state, country that is operated by a large group of officials who are appointed, instead of elected.
What is bureaucracy?
What is infrastructure?
Aegean Sea, Southeastern Europe, archipelago, many decentralized city-states.
What is the Ancient Greek civilization?
The quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common descent or cultural background.
What is ethnicity?
A diplomatic and economic arrangement in East Asia, particularly associated with China, where neighboring states paid tribute to the Chinese emperor in exchange for protection, trade benefits, and recognition of their sovereignty. This system facilitated the establishment of hierarchical relationships, reinforcing China's dominance in the region while enabling smaller states to maintain a degree of autonomy under the larger Chinese sphere of influence.
What is the tribute system?
A place where monks or nuns (male and female monastics) live in a community, dedicated to a life of religious devotion, communal living, work, and spiritual development, often under vows and a specific rule of life. They developed in many religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, and have historically served as centers for prayer, education, art, and community support, preserving texts, promoting spiritual ideals, and providing social services like hospitals and hostels.
What are monasteries?
Comprehensive law code from the 6th century CE Byzantine Empire that organized and clarified existing Roman law. It significantly influenced the legal systems in Western Europe and beyond, forming the basis for much of modern civil law.
What is the Justinian Code?
Relating to or constituting several cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
What is multicultural?
Modern day Iran, centralized empire, 550 bce to 330 bce.
Who were the Persians?
A very important change in the way that people do things, for example, 10,000 years ago there was an Agricultural one.
What is a revolution?
An area over which someone exercises control as or in the manner of a feudal lord.
What is a fiefdom?
Belief system founded in East Asia in the 500s BCE which focuses on how people could live in harmony with nature (and one another).
What is Daoism?
The belief in Chinese culture and dynasties that when a leader and their family are moral, rule justly, and society flourishes they have this term. When there are rebellions, corruption, natural disasters and invasions they have lost this.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The spread of Greek culture to North Africa and Persia under the reign of Alexander the great in the 300s bce.
What is Hellenism?
Achaemenid Empire, circa 559 BCE location.
What is Persia?
What is Chinese?
A political situation where a governing authority is weakened, removed, or has collapsed, leaving a lack of control. This void creates instability and can trigger conflict as various groups, factions, or individuals compete to seize control.
What is a power vacuum?