Chapter 2 Vocab.

Question 1

agrarian society

Answer 1

society in which agriculture, including both crop production and animal breeding is the foundation of both subsistence and surplus wealth

Question 2

agriculture revolution

Answer 2

transition from collecting food in the wild to domesticating and producing particular plants and animals for human consumption

Question 3

neolithic era

Answer 3

period from about 10,000 to 4,000 BCE characterized by refined stone toolmaking and development of agriculture

Question 4

complex society

Answer 4

• called civilization
• dense population
• agriculture economy
• cities
• complex social hierarchy
• complex occupational specialization
• centralized state
• monumental building
• writing and dominate belief system

Question 5

dynasty

Answer 5

sequence of rulers from a single family

Question 6

city state

Answer 6

a politically sovereign urban center with adjacent agriculture land

Question 7

empire

Answer 7

type of state in which a single political authority, often identified with a kingship, linguistic, or even ethnic group, rules over peoples of different ethic or linguistic identities

Question 8

bureaucracy

Answer 8

a hierarchy of officials within a government that carries out laws, decrees, and functions of the state

Question 9

peasants

Answer 9

the society and economic class of farmers and herders who hold relatively small amounts of productive land as owners, rent-paying tenants, or serfs bound to an estate

Question 10

slavery

Answer 10

the society institution in which an individual is held by law, custom, or coercion in servitude to another individual, group, or state

Question 11

patriarchy

Answer 11

a sorcery in which men dominate everything