Key Terminology
A person who pursues a single interest or area of study.
What is a Specialist?
This metal was considered to be "democratic," while bronze was considered the metal of the elite.
What is Iron?
The process of melting or fusing ores to separate and obtain metal content.
What is Smelting?
A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family.
What is a Dynasty?
A long trip undertaken for religious purposes, such as to visit a holy place.
What is a Pilgrimage?
To force someone to do something, even if they don’t want to.
What is Coerce?
This group is defined as the people having the greatest authority, privilege, or highest status.
What is the Elite?
A community or group of people linked by laws and customs living in the same area.
What is a Society?
A single political unit with one supreme ruler that is composed of different nations or peoples.
What is an Empire?
The belief that there is only one supreme being.
What is Monotheism?
Generally defined by a large, dense population, centralized government, commerce, and specialized labor.
What is a City?
This term refers to a social system where the father rules, and descent and succession are traced through the father.
What is Patriarchal?
A political unit that enforces laws, levies taxes, and manages armies over a territory
What is a State?
An organized group of hired officials, especially governmental, that helps manage a government.
What is a Bureaucracy?
A term referring to all the gods of a people collectively, or a temple dedicated to them.
What is a Pantheon?
The physical assets and systems that enable daily life, such as transportation, energy, and sanitation.
What is Infrastructure?
This is the specific term for tracing one's heritage and ancestry through the mother's family.
What is Matrilineal?
A system that ranks people into levels of power, wealth, or importance.What is a Social Hierarchy?
What is a Social Hierarchy?
A system in which people attain power and influence because of their intellectual abilities rather than their class status or family lineage.
What is a Meritocracy?
A religion is described as this when it attempts to be global and appeal to all people rather than just one group
What is Universal?
This adjective describes a place or person that is diverse and open to different cultures and ideas.
What is Cosmopolitan?
This represents a social structure in which one's class in society is determined by heredity.
What is a Caste System?
Pertaining to a city or town, usually an area with many people, buildings, and businesses.
What is Urban?
Three primary functions of a State include making laws, managing armies, and this financial action.
What is Levying Taxes?
The ancient writing system that utilized wedge-shaped characters, used for languages such as Sumerian.
What is Cuneiform?