AP World History Vocabulary
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| 165147099 | cultural diffusion | the spread of inventions, foods, trade goods, concepts and practices from one people to another | 0 | |
| 165147100 | independent innovation | the unassisted invention or creation of foods, practices, concepts, and ideas without borrowing from other societies. | 1 | |
| 165302637 | class distinction | differentiation in status, defined by wealth, ancestry, or occupational function | 2 | |
| 165302638 | private property | this concept of owning and having one's own land was formed because of the fact that agriculture had encouraged permanent settlement and technological advancement, making land important. | 3 | |
| 165302639 | food surpluses | an excess amount of food produced, more than needed for subsistence, so the people who aren't involved in food production can concern themselves with other skills beneficial to society and themselves. | 4 | |
| 165302640 | specialization of labor | a system in which many people started to specialize in certain jobs to help the civilization advance rather than just a focus on self-welfare and subsistence; supported by the Neolithic revolution and the sedentary aspects associated with it | 5 | |
| 165302641 | social stratification | phenomenon in which certain social roles have moire power, certain occupations have more value, leading to the emergence of upper and lower classes | 6 | |
| 165302642 | hierarchy | a culture's system of ranking social classes | 7 | |
| 165302643 | social mobility | how difficult or easy it is for an individual to move from one class to another | 8 | |
| 165302644 | caste systems | social hierarchies in which social stratification tended to be extremely strict, sharply drawn, and in which movement from one class was impossible; ex: India | 9 | |
| 165302645 | patriarchies | societies in which male domination prevails | 10 | |
| 165302646 | monarchy | government led by a single ruler, often justified in religious terms | 11 | |
| 165302647 | nobility/aristocracy | most monarchs govern with the assistance of this small upper class which assists with political administration, economic development, military defense, and other matters. | 12 | |
| 165302648 | parliament | representative law making body whose members are elected or appointed. | 13 | |
| 165302649 | feudal systems | system in which the local authority of individual nobles outweighs the central authority of the monarch | 14 | |
| 165302650 | oligarchy | rule by a small elite group, chosen from the wealthy or the aristocracy (ancient land owning) | 15 | |
| 165302651 | republic | state in which all or most adult citizens, play some role in government, but not necessarily an EQUAL role | 16 | |
| 165302652 | democracy | is a republic that grants more or less equal political rights and opportunities to all adult citizens | 17 | |
| 165302653 | theocracy | a government dominated by a religious elite | 18 | |
| 165302654 | nations/nation-states | run by centralized governments and united by uniform legal systems and a sense of common national identity...generally shares a common language, ethnicity, religion, cultural heritage | 19 | |
| 165302655 | slavery | ownership of human beings by other human beings, often forced to do household tasks and hard labors | 20 | |
| 165302656 | Atlantic slave trade | From the 1400s to 1800s time period where the Europeans and Americans transported millions of slaves from Africa to North and South America. | 21 | |
| 165302657 | serfdom | majority of a country's peasant would be unfree,but not technically slaves because they had more protections and freedoms. However they were bound to the land they lived on, often vulnerable to the same abuses that slaves where. Persisted until the 1800s as slavery did. | 22 | |
| 165302658 | trade | the exchange of goods | 23 | |
| 165302659 | Water transport | the movement of goods along rivers, lakeshores, coastlines of oceans and seas | 24 | |
| 165302660 | Mediterranean sea | site of international trade | 25 | |
| 165302661 | Indian Ocean | important site of international trade in the eastern hemisphere | 26 | |
| 165302662 | caravan routes | part of the land routes of Sahara desert's sand roads. | 27 | |
| 165302663 | Silk Road | 5.000 mile land route, the most important overland trade route, linked China with the Mediterranean coast of the Middle East and by extension to Europe | 28 | |
| 165302664 | proselytizing/missionary activity | the spread of religion through cultural contact, deliberately intending to convert, sometimes peaceful or forceful | 29 | |
| 165302665 | migration | mass movement of large numbers of people in early periods of global history, having a tremendous effect on the ethnic and cultural makeup of the world's major societies | 30 | |
| 165302666 | Great Age of Migrations | the tremendous influx of invaders from 200 to 1000 CE, where a variety of Germanic and Asiatic people moved toward and into Europe, settling throughout Europe and western Asia, playing an immense role in ethnic and cultural development | 31 |
