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19 Cards in this Set
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Invention |
A new process, technique, or product. EX. The Phone |
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Technology |
Anything humans have created to solve a problem or complete a process; tools that extend capacities for the purpose of survival and comfort, in economics, it is the pool of existing knowledge. EX. The Wheel |
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Commodity |
An object that has use value of its own. Sometimes commodities like gold can be used as money. EX. Jewels |
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Production |
The act of creating goods and services by combining economic resources. EX. Cars |
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Trade |
The exchange of one resource for another. EX. Money for Resources |
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Dynasty |
Succession of hereditary rulers (A.K.A rulers from a single Family). EX. Great Britian |
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City-State |
Independent city that operate much like an independent country. EX. |
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Polytheism |
The belief in more than one deities or gods. EX. Greece |
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Empire |
Political unit in which a number of peoples/countries are controlled by a single person. EX. HRE |
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Dictator |
A single ruler who has complete authority. EX. Hitler |
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Monarchy |
Form of government in which one person has the hereditary right to rule as head of state. EX. The Queen |
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Republic |
An individual soul/spirit is born again and again.
EX. Supreme Court |
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Senate |
A lawmaking, governing body. EX Congress |
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Reincarnation |
An individual soul/spirit is born again and again. EX. Jesus |
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Mandate of heaven |
Political theory of Ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source. EX. Ancient China |
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Feudalism |
Political, military, and social system in the middle ages based on the holding of lands in fief or free and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal, knight/samurai. EX. IRS |
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Bureaucracy |
Civil agencies that run the government. EX. FBI |
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Monotheism |
Belief in a single god or deity. EX. Christians |
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Covenant |
An agreement-can be refereed back to biblical times of god and the Israelite or today as a legally binding agreement. EX A Contract |
