Government in Action
A representative lawmaking body that debates policies, passes laws, and approves government spending.
What is a parliament?
Describing a person who demonstrates sincere religious devotion through worship, conduct, or religious duties.
What is pious?
Describing a characteristic of a population, such as age, occupation, religion, location, or birth rate.
What is demographic?
A prefix meaning “new,” “revived,” or a modern form of something older.
What is neo-?
Related to matters within a country rather than its foreign relations; it can also refer to the home.
What is domestic?
Government officials who administer laws, maintain records, collect taxes, and carry out public policies.
Who are bureaucrats?
Related to the pope, his authority, or the institutions associated with his leadership.
What is papal?
A geographical term referring to the regions of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert.
Correct response: What is Sub-Saharan?
A long narrative poem or story involving heroic deeds and events important to a culture.
What is an epic?
To gain exclusive control over a market, product, resource, or trade route and prevent meaningful competition.
What is monopolize?
Related to a ruling family or to the transfer of power within that family.
What is dynastic?
Describing a direct and deeply spiritual experience of the divine or of a reality beyond ordinary understanding.
What is mystical?
Related to cities and the people, institutions, or activities found within them.
What is urban?
The final period of the Stone Age, associated with farming, permanent settlements, and polished stone tools.
What is the Neolithic period?
The office, authority, and institution of leadership held by the pope.
What is the papacy?
The process or established order through which a throne, title, or political office passes to a new holder.
What is succession?
Describing language or techniques deliberately designed to persuade or influence an audience.
What is rhetorical?
To develop into a city-based society or cause an area to become more densely populated and city-centered.
What is urbanize?
As a verb, this means to reveal or demonstrate something clearly through observable actions or evidence.
What is manifest?
The official assumption of a throne, which begins a monarch’s reign and may occur before the coronation ceremony.
What is accession?
A condition in which no effective government or generally recognized political authority exists.
What is anarchy?
The Islamic religious, ethical, and legal framework based on divine guidance and interpreted by Muslim scholars.
What is Sharia?
Members of the biological family that includes modern humans, great apes, and their extinct relatives.
Who are hominids?
A historically judgmental term used to label peoples as uncivilized, or a modern term for extreme cruelty and destruction.
What is barbarism?
To adapt wild plants or animals over generations for human use, changing their traits through selective breeding and control.
What is domesticate?