Quiz 1 - Government (Moreno)

1. This was the period during which Hebrew Bible canon, monotheism, and messianic & apocalyptic expectations were adopted into the Jewish faith from 515 BCE – 70 CE.

• absolutism

• Second-Temple Judaism

• Buddhism

• pastoral

This is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.

• shamanism

• Divine Right of Kings

• corvée labor

• Hinduism

This was a system of ethical and philosophical teachings founded in ancient China; the philosophy became popular after it was adopted by the Han Dynasty shortly after the Warring States Period (475 BCE – 221 BCE).

• Neolithic

• Paleolithic

• Islam

• Confucianism

These are societies in which nomadic people live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food. They often do not exceed more than 200 members in total.

• Christianity

• pastoral

• hunter-gatherer

• horticultural

This is a society which historically utilizes a form of animal husbandry; such societies are often composed of nomadic people who moved with their herds.

• pastoral

• feudalism

• horticultural

• Neolithic

This is a system in which a state or government holds relatively stable power or authority over those within its polity; in its modern form, it is generally centralized & organization and holds a monopoly on violence.

• fealty

• vassals

• stateless society

• state system

This is a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, which developed from Vedic religion, generally centered around a rigid caste system and believes in the cycle of reincarnation.

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Islam

• Common Land

This is a society that is not governed by a state, or, especially in common American English, has no government.

• animism

• stateless society

• state system

• shamanism

This is a religious or spiritual practice in which humans worship and/or attribute souls to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.

• Christianity

• animism

• Paleolithic

• Classical

This is the name for primitive agricultural societies that essentially gardened to supplement hunting and gathering.

• hierarchy

• pastoral

• horticultural

• Hinduism