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20 Cards in this Set
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Invention |
A new process, technique, or product |
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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, comfort, or economics |
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Commodity |
An object that has a value of its own |
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Production |
The act of creating goods and services by combining economic resources |
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Trade |
The exchange of one resource for another |
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Dynasty |
Succession of hereditary rulers (aka rules from a single family) |
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City-State |
In Independent city that functions much like an independent country |
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Polytheism |
The belief in more than one (several) gods or deities |
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Empire |
Political unit in which a number of peoples/countries are controlled by a single ruler |
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Republic |
A political system with elected representatives |
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Senate |
A lawmaking governing body |
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Dictator |
A single ruler hat has complete authority |
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Monarchy |
Form of government in which one person has the hereditary right to rule as head of state |
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Theocracy |
Government where the ruler is either viewed as a divine figure or is controlled by religious leaders, no separation between church and state |
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Reincarnation (Rebirth) |
An individual soul/spirit is born again and again |
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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 |
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Feudalism |
Political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on holding the lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal, knight/samurai |
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Bureaucracy |
Civil agencies that run the government |
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Monotheism |
The belief in a single god |
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Covenant |
An agreement - can be referred back to biblical times of God and the Israelites or today as a legally binding agreement |
