Religion & Sacred Life
Belief in or worship of several gods.
What is polytheism?
Related to an empire, emperor, or imperial government.
What is imperial?
Related to war, soldiers, combat, or military affairs.
What is martial?
Cloth or fabric made by weaving, knitting, or processing fibers such as cotton, wool, silk, or linen.
What are textiles?
Related to citizens, citizenship, or participation in community and public affairs.
What is civic?
The complete group of gods recognized and worshipped by a particular culture.
What is a pantheon?
Related to a territory controlled by a foreign state or to a territory governed by a foreign power.
What is colonial?
A professional soldier hired to fight mainly for payment rather than loyalty to a country.
Who is a mercenary?
To adapt wild plants or animals over generations for human use.
What is domesticate?
Shared by an entire community rather than belonging to one individual.
What is communal?
Sincere devotion to religious beliefs, duties, worship, and moral conduct.
What is piety?
The policy of extending a country’s political, economic, or military control over other territories and peoples.
What is imperialism?
Compulsory military service required by a government, also commonly called the draft.
What is conscription?
A peasant legally tied to a lord’s estate and required to provide labor, rent, or crops.
Who is a serf?
An independent political state composed of a city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
The organized study of God, sacred teachings, religious beliefs, and the nature of the divine.
What is theology?
An official order or proclamation issued by a monarch, emperor, or other governing authority.
What is an edict?
A policy of making concessions to an aggressive country or leader in an attempt to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
A medieval relationship in which a lord granted land or rights to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service.
What is feudalism?
An organized political community, or the governmental structure through which that community is ruled.
What is a polity?
To actively attempt to persuade others to adopt a religion, belief, or ideology.
What is proselytize?
A partly self-governing country that provides money, goods, soldiers, or symbolic gifts to a more powerful state.
What is a tributary state?
Acts committed with the intention of destroying, completely or partly, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What is genocide?
Exclusive control over the production, supply, or trade of a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
Supporting the principle that people should possess equal rights, opportunities, or social status.
What is egalitarian?