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of or pertaining to a city or town
What is urban?
To absorb and incorporate (an ethnically distinct group) into the dominant culture of an area.
What is assimilate?
a sum of money levied by the government on income, property, or sales and used for its services and administration
what are taxes?
the breakdown of labor into its components and their distribution among different persons, groups, or machines to increase productive efficiency
What are divisions of labor?
the sum of the language, customs, beliefs, and art considered characteristic of a particular group of people
What is culture?
the belief that spiritual beings or souls can exist without a body to house them or in plants, animals, and other objects
What is animism?
the act of buying and selling commodities, or all such acts collectively
What is trade?
a social structure in which one’s class in society is determined by heredity
what is a caste system?
a scattering of any people with a common culture
What is diaspora?
to change or influence change in someone else’s or one’s own faith or beliefs
What is convert?
A series of roads, waterways, railroads, and air routes that allow groups to trade goods with one another; a loose organization of societies that exchange goods with each other.
What is a trade network?
a set of principles or tenets which together form the basis of a religion, philosophy, or moral code
what is a belief system?
an attempted combination or reconciliation of different principles, beliefs, or practices, especially in religion or philosophy
what is syncretism?
of, concerning, or written in wedge-shaped characters, as were many languages of the ancient Near East, such as Sumerian and Babylonian
what is cuneiform?
of or using coercion (power to persuade someone using threats or intimidation)
what is coercive?
a self-governing state made up of a city and its surrounding territory
what is a city-state?
a type of government in which decisions are made by one executive power
what is centralized government?
a broad, somewhat arid grass plain, especially the great plains in southeast Russia and southwest Asia
what is steppe?
the differentiation and categorization of people into social hierarchies
what is social stratification?
the totality of structured human interrelationships in a society
What is social order?
a system in which people attain power, influence, and wealth because of their intellectual abilities rather than because of their class status or family lineage
what is a meritocracy?
pertaining to, derived from, or tracing descent through the mother’s family
what is matrilineal?
the outer edge of an area; the less important part of a group or activity
to subject (especially those belonging to a different political, religious, or racial group) to persistent harassment, punishment, or ill-treatment
what is persecute?
to melt or fuse (ores) as a means of separating and obtaining the metal content
what is smelting?