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English Glossary

Nationalism: loyalty to a country and its territory, language and way of life. Usually combined with a wish for a political independence.

**Neglected: **unattended; lacking a caretaker

Neolithic Revolution: the shift beginning 10,000 years ago from hunter-gatherer societies to settled communities of farmers and artisans. Also called the Age of Agriculture, it witnessed the invention of farming, the domestication of plantsand animals, and the development of the technologies such as pottery and weaving. The earliest Neolithic societies appeared in the Near East about 8000 BC. "Neolithic" comes from the Greek words for "new stone".

NEP: New Economic Policy.

Nomes: regions or provinces of ancient Egypt governed by officials called nomarchs.

**Nourished: **nourishment means nutrition; also it can be said that a person can be nourished by the experiences of life, the teachings of somebody, etc.