Vocabulary 1
What is the definition of advancement?
Advancement is the process of moving forward or improving something. It could also mean a promotion.
What is reincarnation?
Reincarnation is a religious concept in which people believe that living beings can be reborn into a new version of themselves.
What is Hieroglyphics?
Hieroglyphics was the writing system in ancient Egypt that used symbols to represent ideas and sounds.
What is an export?
An export is a good sent out from one country to another.
What is an import?
An import is goods that are received from an exporting country.
What does decentralized mean?
Decentralized means that power and authority are held by many local leaders instead of 1 central supreme leader.
What is the definition of Kinship?
Kinship is a group of people with a relationship through ancestry.
What is the division of labor?
Division of labor is specialization.
What is the Silk Road?
The Silk Road is a network of trade routes throughout Asia and Europe.
What is a Pantheon?
A pantheon is a set of all deities recognized and worshipped within a specific religion or culture.
What is the definition of innovation?
Innovation is the process of creating new ideas, products, or methods to improve something.
what is Filial Piety?
Filial Piety is a way of respecting all people. It was developed in Confucianist China. There are 5 relationships: older brother-little brother, ruler-subject, friend-friend, parent-child, and husband (man)-wife (woman).
What is a centralized state?
A centralized state is when one supreme leader holds all power and authority.
What does subordinate mean?
Subordinate is when someone is less important that another person.
What is the definition of cultural assimilation?
Cultural assimilation occurs when a small culture adapts the ideas, deities, values, behaviors, and beliefs of another culture while losing its own.
What does sedentary mean?
A settled life with little physical activity.
What is a bureaucracy?
A bureaucracy is a way of organizing people to carry out the government's work/duties. It is also a complex institution.
What is religious toleration?
Religious toleration is the right to believe in different religious beliefs.
What is the definition of corruption?
Corruption is the overuse of power or dishonest behavior of a leader.
What does multiethnic mean?
Multiethnic is a person with multiple ethnicities.
What is the definition of matrilineal?
Matrilineal is a social system in which a family's ancestors are traced through the woman's family over the man's.
What is an oligarchy?
An oligarchy is a type of government where the power is held by a small group of people in the highest caste in a caste system, with lots of money.
What is the Period of Disunion?
The Period of Disunion was a period in China that occurred from the fall of the Han Dynasty to the rise of the Sui Dynasty.
What is a satrap?
A satrap is the administrative government system in Ancient Persia. A satrap was a governer of a province in Persia.
What is the definition of Schism?
A schism is a split or breakup within a group, usually happening because people have different opinions, beliefs, or ways of doing things.