Vocabulary words

Seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region.

Form of government in which one or more deities of some type is recongnized as the supreme

A dead human or an animal

Form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style

Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial china

Extant collection of Babylonian laws, developed during the reign (1792-1750 bce) of the 1st dynasty

Method of cultivation in which forests are burned and cleared for planting

European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning god

A system consisting of an independent city having sovereignty over contiguous territory and serving

Belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of god

An architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia

System of writing used in the ancient Middle East

A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing

Belief in multiple deities

Human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest

The common patriarch of the abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population

Final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans

Development of material culture among the ancient peoples

Ancient technological or cultural stage characterized by use of rudimentary chipped stone