4859038987 | Agriculture | The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products. | 0 | |
4859249396 | Agrarian | Of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. | 1 | |
4859268288 | Analyze | Discover or reveal (something) through detailed examination. | 2 | |
4859275938 | Aninism | Belief in innumerable spiritual beings concerned with human affairs and capable of helping or harming human interests. | 3 | |
4859283116 | Art | A visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination. | 4 | |
4859287719 | Belief System | The stories we tell ourselves to define our personal sense of "reality". | 5 | |
4859290310 | Bureaucracies | A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 6 | |
4859290311 | Caste | Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status. | 7 | |
4859292126 | Civilization | The process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization. | 8 | |
4859292127 | Climate | A region with particular prevailing weather conditions. | 9 | |
4859295714 | Continuity | The unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over a period of time. | 10 | |
4859298523 | Coup/Coup d' etat | The sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. | 11 | |
4859300545 | Culture | The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. | 12 | |
4859302584 | Demography | The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations. | 13 | |
4859304686 | Diaspora | Any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily. | 14 | |
4859304687 | Diffusion | Is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another. | 15 | |
4859304688 | Domestication | Is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. | 16 | |
4859307143 | Economy | The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. | 17 | |
4859308903 | Egalitarianism | Of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. | 18 | |
4859308904 | Elite | A select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities. | 19 | |
4859313693 | Emigration | Is the act of leaving one's resident country with the intent to settle elsewhere. | 20 | |
4859313694 | Empire | An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority. | 21 | |
4859315137 | Epidemic | A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. | 22 | |
4859319320 | Filial Piety | In Confucian philosophy it is a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors. | 23 | |
4859319321 | Gender | The state of being male or female | 24 | |
4859320731 | Geography | The nature and relative arrangement of places and physical features. | 25 | |
4859320732 | Hierarchy | A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 26 | |
4859322364 | History | The study of past events, particularly in human affairs. | 27 | |
4859322365 | Ideology | A system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. | 28 | |
4859322366 | Imperial | Of or relating to an empire. | 29 | |
4859324083 | Kinship | A blood relationship. | 30 | |
4859324084 | Maritime | Connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity. | 31 | |
4859328098 | Matriarchy | A system of society or government ruled by a woman or women. | 32 | |
4859331122 | Matrilineal | Of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 33 | |
4859332446 | Migration | To go from one country, region, or place to another. | 34 | |
4859332447 | Nation | A large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. | 35 | |
4859332448 | Neolithic | Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning around 10,000 BC in the Middle East and later elsewhere, characterized by the development of agriculture and the making of polished stone implements. | 36 | |
4859334294 | Nomadic | Anything that involves moving around a lot. | 37 | |
4859336127 | Paleolithic | The cultural period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago, marked by the earliest use of tools made of chipped stone. Also called Old Stone Age. | 38 | |
4859336128 | Pastoral | Used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle. | 39 | |
4859340210 | Patriarchy | A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line. | 40 | |
4859340281 | Periodization | Is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history. | 41 | |
4859342584 | Philosophy | The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline. | 42 | |
4859344306 | Political Structure | A coordinated set of principles, laws, ideas, and procedures relating to a particular form of government, or the form of government itself. | 43 | |
4859345746 | Popular/pop culture | Is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. | 44 | |
4859345747 | Pre-history | The period of time before written records. | 45 | |
4859347354 | Religion | The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. | 46 | |
4859347355 | Revolution | A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. | 47 | |
4859350044 | Rural | In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town. | 48 | |
4859350045 | Secession | The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state. | 49 | |
4859350046 | Secular | denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. | 50 | |
4859351653 | Science | The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. | 51 | |
4859351654 | Social Class | A division of a society based on social and economic status. | 52 | |
4859351655 | Social Structure | It is the structure of social network ties between individuals or organizations. | 53 | |
4859353467 | State | Is an organized political community living under a single system of government. States may or may not be sovereign. | 54 | |
4859353468 | Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections. | 55 | |
4859355353 | Surplus | An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand. | 56 | |
4859356991 | Syncretism | The attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion. | 57 | |
4859356992 | Technology | A scientific or industrial process, invention, method, or the like. | 58 | |
4859356993 | Trade | The act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries. | 59 | |
4859358822 | Tribute | A stated sum or other valuable consideration paid by one sovereign or state to another in acknowledgment of subjugation or as the price of peace, security, protection, or the like. | 60 | |
4859358823 | Urban | Of, relating to, or designating a city or town. | 61 | |
4859359976 | Urbanization | The process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas. | 62 |
AP World History--Basic Vocabulary Flashcards
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