A general consensus and agreement that people are supposed to obey the laws or suffer the consequence
What is rule of law?
100
A type of sociopolitical organization found among contemporary hunters and gatherers and among all humans for most of our existence.
What are bands?
100
A level of political organization where there are more people than bands who must be organized into larger groups while still getting along with one another most of the time that dates back to the Neolithic Revolution (10,000 years ago).
What are tribes?
100
The actual ability of one person (or group) to make another person (or group) do something.
What is power?
100
The belief "The land is unoccupied, no one lives here, therefore it is fine for us to claim it"
What is terra nullis?
200
Political organization led by elders.
What is gerontocracy?
200
Larger political systems that arose in some regions of the world after tribal organization was well established and are hierarchical that divide their people into at least 2 groups.
What are chiefdoms?
200
A leader of a tribe.
What is a big man?
200
Publicly recognized and sanctioned permission given to one person (or a group) to make another person (or groups) do something.
What is authority?
200
The belief, "Our god wants us to have this land" so the original inhabitants must be removed so that God's Will can be achieved.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
Internalized beliefs that are not easily articulated (things we don't know that we know).
What is tacit knowledge?
300
Political organization that arose in regions of the world 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.
What are states?
300
Severe forms of physical aggression, including war and feud, that entails forceful attacks, usually with weapons, which can result in serious injury or death.
What is violence?
300
The process of overthrowing current leaders and assuming the same positions of power themselves.
What is rebellion?
300
A Chiricahua Apache who, along with Naiche, were taken as political prisoners for resisting European Americans invasion of their land.
Who is Geronimo?
400
things imposed on a person from outside his or her own conscious that are imposed by other members of society that are either negative or positive.
What are external social controls?
400
A code of justice based on the notion that only the person that committed the crime, or transgressed a rule, is responsible for that act.
What is individual responsibility?
400
Where all members of the group to which the person who committed the crime belongs are held to be equally responsible for the crime.
What is corporate responsibility?
400
The process of completely getting rid of the current power structure and replacing it with something else.
What is revolution?
400
The country that was created as a modern political entity at the Cairo Conference in 1921, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
What is Iraq?
500
Learning from peers, family, friends, teachers, media and others what is appropriate, not not, in their cultural group.
What is enculturation?
500
Relatively impersonal lethal aggression between communities.
What is warfare?
500
Situations where one kin-based organization is pitted against another and uses the concept of social substitutability.
What is feuding?
500
The authority to exert control over specific activities, people or places that is clearly drawn.
What is jurisdiction?
500
The aboriginal people of Australia who experienced their children being taken from them by colonialists for 100 years.