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  1. leverage
    provide with strategic advantage
    Greek peasants leveraged this authority to demand democratic rights and duties. (2.5.A)
  2. efficiently
    in a manner that wastes no time or effort
    These peasants often owned land and had incentives to farm efficiently and open new lands to cultivation. (2.5.A)
  3. cultivation
    production of food by preparing the land to grow crops
    These peasants often owned land and had incentives to farm efficiently and open new lands to cultivation. (2.5.A)
  4. consolidated
    joined together into a whole
    Roman territorial expansion was associated with the creation of vast, consolidated estates where numerous slaves produced agriculture and commodities for commercial markets. (2.5.A)
  5. livelihood
    the financial means whereby one supports oneself
    These consolidated estates boosted the economic and political power of the Senate while undermining the economic livelihood of free peasants and artisans and diminishing the authority of a citizen army. (2.5.A)
  6. diminish
    lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
    These consolidated estates boosted the economic and political power of the Senate while undermining the economic livelihood of free peasants and artisans and diminishing the authority of a citizen army. (2.5.A)
  7. hierarchical
    classified by various criteria into successive levels
    The social structures of classical societies were hierarchical and informed by economic divisions of labor, land ownership, and commerce. (2.5.B)
  8. perceived
    detected by means of the senses
    In China, Confucianism supported social hierarchy with educated scholars and officials as elites; farmers and artisans in the middle; and merchants, who were perceived to produce nothing of value, at the bottom. (2.5.B)
  9. patriarchal
    of a social organization with the male as the head
    Patriarchal social structures continued to shape gender and family relations in classical societies. (2.5.C)
  10. primacy
    the state of being first in importance
    In classical Greece, male citizens held primacy over women, who were formally excluded from public spaces, denied property rights, and legally classified as dependents of men. (2.5.C)
  11. dependent
    a person who relies on another person for support
    In classical Greece, male citizens held primacy over women, who were formally excluded from public spaces, denied property rights, and legally classified as dependents of men. (2.5.C)
  12. categorize
    place into or assign to a class
    Women were categorized as appendages of their husbands and fathers. (2.5.C)
  13. appendage
    a part that is joined to something larger
    Women were categorized as appendages of their husbands and fathers. (2.5.C)
  14. sphere
    a particular environment or walk of life
    While generally prohibited from access or authority in the public sphere, women wielded greater economic and social authority in the private sphere. (2.5.C)
  15. agency
    the state of being in action or exerting power
    Moreover, wealthier women generally had more agency and independence than poorer women. (2.5.C)
Created on Thu Jul 16 09:00:38 EDT 2020 (updated Wed Jul 22 15:48:27 EDT 2020)

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