Rulers & Royal Power
The title given to the monarchs of ancient Egypt.
Who is a pharaoh?
A succession of rulers belonging to the same family.
What is a dynasty?
An organized political community with a government, territory, laws, and authority over a population.
What is a state?
Related to the everyday language spoken by ordinary people rather than a formal or scholarly language.
What is vernacular?
To leave one’s homeland or country in order to settle permanently somewhere else.
What is emigrate?
The process through which a person officially becomes a king, queen, or emperor.
What is accession?
A marriage arrangement in which one person has more than one spouse at the same time.
What is polygamy?
A political system in which one ruler possesses nearly unlimited power.
What is an autocracy?
Describing a population made up of people from diverse cultures, religions, languages, or backgrounds.
What is heterogeneous?
Describing people who live permanently in one settlement instead of moving regularly.
What is sedentary?
To formally surrender a throne or give up sovereign power.
What is abdicate?
A system that traces ancestry, inheritance, or family membership through the father’s family.
What is patrilineal?
A government in which leadership is not inherited by a monarch and authority is exercised in the name of the public.
What is a republic?
The process of adopting the language, customs, and values of another or dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
Related to raising and herding domesticated animals for food, transportation, trade, and wealth.
What is pastoral?
A person who temporarily governs because the lawful monarch is too young, absent, ill, or otherwise unable to rule.
Who is a regent?
A wealthy landowning social class positioned below the highest nobility, especially in English history.
What is the gentry?
A sovereign country whose political boundaries are closely associated with a population sharing a national identity.
What is a nation-state?
Judging other societies according to the standards of one’s own culture and often believing one’s culture is superior.
What is ethnocentric?
Describing communities that move regularly from place to place, often according to seasons or the needs of their animals.
What is nomadic?
To seize a throne, office, or authority without having a lawful right to it.
What is usurp?
The division of society into unequal and ranked groups based on wealth, birth, occupation, caste, or legal status.
What is social stratification?
A representative lawmaking body that forms and supervises the executive government in this type of political system.
What is a parliamentary system?
The process through which a society adopts Chinese language, institutions, customs, or cultural traditions.
What is Sinicization?
A broad, dry grassland—especially in Central Eurasia—that supported mobile pastoral societies such as the Mongols.
What is the steppe?