WHAP Foundations Simple

Assimilation

(replacing culture)

Artisans

(skilled craftworkers)

Autonomous

(self ruling)

Bureaucracy

(government officials)

Centralization

(power inward)

Circa

(approximately)

Codify

(organize laws)

Commodity

(trade good)

Consolidation

(strengthening control)

Cultural diffusion

(ideas spreading)

Culture

(way of life)

Decentralization

(power outward)

Deforestation

(cutting forests)

Democracy

(rule by people)

Demography

(population study)

Desertification

(land drying)

Diaspora

(forced dispersal)

Doctrine

(official beliefs)

Egalitarian

(equality belief)

Elite

(powerful minority)

Empire

(ruling many peoples)

Epidemic

(disease outbreak)

Gender

(social identity)

Ideology

(guiding beliefs)

Imperialism

(expanding control)

Indigenous

(native to area)

Infrastructure

(basic systems)

Interregional

(between regions)

Intraregional

(within region)

Legitimacy

(right to rule)

Monarchy

(hereditary ruler)

Nation-State

(shared identity)

Religion

(sacred beliefs)

Republic

(elected leaders)

Sedentary

(settled living)

Social hierarchy/class

(ranked society)

State

(organized government)

Static

(little change)

Syncretism

(blending cultures)

Transregional

(long-distance exchange)

Tributary state

(pays tribute)