WH Unit 1A Vocabulary

The worship of multiple gods...

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

• Atheism

• Monism

A change that occurred when people learned how to plant, grow crops, and herd animals...

• Paleolithic Revolution

• Neolithic Revolution

• Monolithic Revolution

• Urban Revolution

The earliest written law that covered daily life, aimed to ensure justice, punished criminals harshly and treated nobles and commoners differently...

• The Ten Commandments

• The Twelve Tables

• The Code of Hammurabi

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

A political system governed by a religious leader...

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Theocracy

A political unit consisting of an independent city and the land surrounding it...

• City-State

• Municipality

• Country

• Empire

A Chinese idea that the right to rule came from divine authority...

• The Caste System

• The Mandate of Heaven

• The Dynastic Cycle

• Divine Right of Kings

A highly organized and complex society...

• Tribal Council

• Village

• Civilization

• Hunter-Gatherer Band

The spread of ideas, inventions other cultural elements, from one society to another...

• Cultural Divergence

• Cultural Relativism

• Cultural Destruction

• Cultural Diffusion

A process in which the physical characteristics of plants and animals change as a result of human intervention...

• Domestication

• Feralization

• Evolution

• Civilization

A ranking of groups of people according to their importance, status or power...

• Dynasty

• Hierarchy

• Tribe

• Monarchy