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| Archaeology | The systematic recovery and study of material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery, remaining from past human life and culture. |
| Artifacts | An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, a weapon, or an ornament of archaelolgical or historical interest. |
| Chronology | The science of events. The arrangement of events in time. A chronological list or table. |
| Dating | To mark or supply with a date: date a letter to determine the date of a fossil. |
| Fossils | A remnant or trace of an organism of a pat Geologic age, such as a skeleton or leaf imprint, embedded and preserved in the earth's crust. |
| Material Culture | everything that occurs can be explained by scientific laws. |
| Decline | To slope downward;descent. |
| Internal weakness | Conflicts among leaders caused upheaval in the roman Republic during its last 100 years. |
| Corruption | Decay, not, archaic, something that corrupts. |
| Astronomy | The scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, motion, composition, energy, and evolution of celestial bodies and phenomena. |
| Cultural diffusion | To make the culture spread into other areas of the world. |
| Geometric art | Art that changes the truth or looks at in a different way. |
| Monotheism | The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. |
| Pilgrimage | A journey to a sacred place or shrine. |
| Ethnicity | An ethnic qualilty or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties. |
| Kinship | Connection by blood, marriage, or adoption ; family relationship. |
| Oral Tradition | Stories and history is past down generations through verbal communication. |
| Region | A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space, area. |
| Ecology | A part of the earth characterized by distinctive animal or plant life. |
| Slavery | The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. |
| Social Cohesion | People of a group that interact mainly with themselves. |
| Topography | Detailed, precise description of a place or region. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map, indicating their relative positions and elevations. |
| Tribalism | The organization, culture, or beliefs of a tribe. |
| Ceremonial Centers | Areas where ceremonies are conducted most of the time. |
| Conformity | Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblence ; agreement. |
| Congruity | Followed by to, with or between. |
| Bureaucracy | A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief. |
| Civil Service | Those branches of public service that are not legislative, judicial, or military and in which employment are usually based on competitive examination. |
| Ethics | Having or relating to sizable groups of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linquistic, or cultural heritage. |
| Extended Family | Your parents, parents and their siblings living together. |
| Traditions | The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication. |
| Urbanization | To make urban in nature or character. |
| Golden Age | A period of great peace, prosperity, and happiness. |
| Hierachy | A body of persons having authority. Categorization of a group of peoples according to ability or status. |
| Homogeneity | the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature. |
| Institution | an orgainization founded and united for a specific purpose. |
| Insularity | Of, relating to, or constituting an island. |
| Medieval | Relating or belonging to the Middle Ages. |
| Modernization | The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting. |
| Restoration | An act of restoring. The state of being restored. |
| Abosolute Monarchy | A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch. |
| Enlightenment | A philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions, and it brought about many humanitaritan reforms. |
| Human Rights | The basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law. |
| Mercantilism | The theory and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after the decline of feudalism, establishing colonies and a merchant marine, and developing industry, and mining to attain a favorable balance of trade. |
| Nationalism | Devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation. |
| Republic | A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president. |
| Secularism | Religious skepticism or indifference. The view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education. |
| Westernization | Familiarizing with or converting to customs and practices of Western Civilization. |
