292769480 | Hunting-Gathering | the use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation for food | 0 | |
292769481 | Domesticated Plants and Animals | Started around 8000 B.C.E., dogs, horses, wheat, barley, etc. | 1 | |
292769482 | Sedentary | characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place | 2 | |
292769483 | Nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | 3 | |
292769484 | Pastoral | rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor | 4 | |
292769485 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) | 5 | |
292769486 | Deity | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | 6 | |
292769487 | Pantheon | (antiquity) a temple to all the gods | 7 | |
292769488 | Pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. | 8 | |
292769489 | Caste System | a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity, a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society | 9 | |
292769490 | Priest | a person who performs religous cerimonies | 10 | |
292769491 | Nun | a woman who has taken a sacred vow to devote her life to prayer and service to the church | 11 | |
292769492 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 12 | |
292769493 | Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 13 | |
292769494 | Celibacy | abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | 14 | |
292769495 | Monasticism | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith | 15 | |
292769496 | Afterlife | life after death | 16 | |
292769497 | Reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions | 17 | |
292769498 | Missionaries | people who work to spread their religious beliefs | 18 | |
292769499 | Pilgrims | people who take long journeys for religious reasons | 19 | |
292769500 | Filial | relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring | 20 | |
292769501 | Kinship groups | groups of people related by blood or marriage, Early agricultural and technological development (about 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE) - Small groups of settlers grew into kinship-based villages that practiced both crop cultivation and domestication of animals. Tools and inventions helped villages to stabilize and eventually grow. | 21 | |
292769502 | Conversion | a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | 22 | |
292769503 | Priesthood | the body of ordained religious practitioners | 23 | |
292769504 | Sacred Texts | texts that a religion believes to be sacred or of central importance. | 24 | |
292769505 | Imperial | relating to or associated with an empire | 25 | |
292769506 | Feudalism | a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 26 | |
292769507 | The state | A body of people living in a defined territory and organized politically. | 27 | |
292769508 | Empire | a group of countries under a single authority | 28 | |
292769509 | Ideology | system of ideas characteristic of a group or culture | 29 | |
292769510 | Bureacracy | a system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority. | 30 | |
292769511 | Civil Service | the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government | 31 | |
292769512 | Social Hierarchy | The division of society by rank or class | 32 | |
292769513 | Stratification | the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | 33 | |
292769514 | Inequality | lack of equality | 34 | |
292769515 | Patriarchy | a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | 35 | |
292769516 | Slavery | the practice of owning slaves | 36 | |
292769517 | Urban | relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area | 37 | |
292769518 | Tax Revenue | government income due to taxation | 38 | |
292769519 | Nobility | a privileged class holding hereditary titles | 39 | |
292769520 | Elites | A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status. | 40 | |
292769521 | Autonomy | immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | 41 | |
292769522 | Citizen | a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | 42 | |
292769523 | Trade Goods | articles of commerce | 43 | |
292769524 | Role of nomads in trade | nomads spread ideas from far away lands and traded new technology through their developed overland routes | 44 |
AP World History Unit 1 & 2 Vocab Flashcards
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