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.

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

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.

This is the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah during the 7th century CE.

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.

Also called Old Stone Age, this ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development was characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools and hunter-gatherer societies.

This is a form of unpaid, unfree labour, that often acts as rent or labour tax paid to the state.

This was a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord.

Also called the New Stone Age, this ancient cultural stage is most-frequently used in connection with agriculture, which is the time when cereal cultivation and animal domestication was introduced.

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.

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.

This is the concept that property is owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow livestock grazing, wood collection, etc.

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.

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

This is a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.

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

This is a form of monarchy in which the monarch holds supreme autocratic authority, principally not being restricted by written laws, legislature, or customs.

A system in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, in exchange for military protection.

This was the early Modern principle that monarchs derive their authority from God, not from their subjects, from which it follows that rebellion is the worst of political crimes.