AP World History Exam Flashcards
Ancient Stuff: 8000 BCE to 600 CE
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| 162659243 | Agrarian | relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property | 0 | |
| 162659244 | Bureaucracy | system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 1 | |
| 162659245 | City State | A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit | 2 | |
| 162659246 | Egalitarian | asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social life. | 3 | |
| 162659247 | Feudalism | A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land | 4 | |
| 162659248 | Neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s). | 5 | |
| 162659249 | Paleolithic | the name given to the Old Stone Age and the time period where most of human pre-history took place. | 6 | |
| 162659250 | Theocracy | a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) | 7 | |
| 162659251 | Vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he or she owes allegiance; a subordinate or dependent; a servant | 8 | |
| 162659252 | Analects | Compiled by Confucius' disciples in 400s BCE; advocated basic ideas like ren (benevolence) and li (proper conduct); one of "Four Books" used to train ancient Chinese civil servants | 9 | |
| 162659253 | Hellenism | the diffusion of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean world after the conquest of Alexander the Great. | 10 | |
| 162659254 | Shi Huang Di | Qin dynasty - reunified china, legalistic, introduced the standard units of money, unified the great wall, buried with 7000 terracotta soldiers, hated Confucianism, died by accidental poisoning | 11 |