Paleolithic Times
This strategy/lifestyle involved groups of humans migrating as they pursued vital resources.
What is a Nomadic lifestyle?
During the Neolithic time period, what human development led to increasingly sedentary settlement.
What is the Adoption of Agriculture?
Most early humans settlements developed near what vital resource.
What is Water?
The emergence of specialized religious roles and institutions characterizes the emergence of this type of belief system.
What is Organized Religion?
This was the last widely recognized Caliphate.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
These two practices characterized much of early religious beliefs.
What is Animism and Ancestor Veneration?
Job Specialization can be seen as a result of this effect of adopting agriculture.
This factor was crucial for the rapid expansion of Buddhism and Christianity. Islam took it one step further.
What is State Sponsorship?
The Hindu Caste system is divided into four of these broad categories.
What is Varna?
Early human hierarchies were commonly based on this category.
What is Age?
This term refers to significant change occurring in a relatively short amount of time.
What is Revolution?
This now uncommon state formation characterized the earliest states.
What are City-States?
This long-running argument justifying monarchic systems of power emphasizes the close relationship between religious power and political power.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
The fulfilment of this spiritual obligation in Hinduism and Buddhism is critical to breaking free of reincarnation.
What is Dharma?
This form of property relationship dominated in early societies.
What is Communal Ownership?
Toward the end of the Neolithic period, these two categories increasingly shaped hierarchies.
What are Class and Gender?
This form of taxation served not only as a transfer of valuble resources, but a sign of loyalty between a Vassal state and Empire.
What is Tribute?
These enduring cultural, administrative and organizational practices emerged from the Classical Period of various regions' histories.
What are Regional Traditions?
This group of specialists characterizes the leadership of organized religious groups.
Who are the Clergy?
Early humans societies were organized into this type of group.
What are kinship groups?
Historian Jared Diamond lists these four negative consequences of the adoption of agriculture.
What are Poor Diets, Enduring Hierarchies, Less Free Time/More Stress and Increased Disease?
Many historians argue that the emergence of states is related to these two forms of hydrologic infrastructure.
What is Irrigation and Flood Management?
This system within organizations, and especially states is responsible for the rapid expansion of state functions and capacity during the Bronze and Iron ages.
What is Bureaucracy?
What is Matrilinear?