AP World History Midterm Review Flashcards

285867242	Techniques	Way of doing something; methods	0
285867243	Domestication	Bringing animals or plants under human control	1
285867244	Agriculture	The raising of crops and animals for human use	2
285867245	Inhabitants	People living in a particular time and place	3
285867246	Hunter-gatherers	People who fed themselves through hunting animals and gathering plants	4
285867247	Transition	Change from one thing to another	5
285867248	Child bearers	People who give birth to children	6
285867249	Displace	To force someone or something to move or be replaced	7
285867250	Cultivation	The act of preparing or working land in order to grow crops	8
285867251	Dominate	To rule over by strength or power	9
285867252	Commerce	The buying and selling of goods and services	10
285867253	Flourish	To thrive, grow well, succeed	11
285867254	Innovation	Something new; a new way of doing something	12
285867255	Intolerance	Unwillingness to accept beliefs that are different from one's own	13
285867256	Integration	The act of uniting or bringing together, especially people of different races	14
285867257	Epidemic	A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease	15
285867258	Monastery	A place in which a community of religious people live and further their religious practices	16
285867259	Reinvigorate	To give new energy	17
285867260	Indirect rule	A system of government in colonies of an empire, which allows local rulers to keep their positions of authority	18
285867261	Urban	City area	19
285867262	Dweller	A person who lives in a particular place	20
285867263	Divine	Related to a god; supremely good or beautiful	21
285867264	Inferior	Below; at a lower level	22
285867265	Prominent	Standing out so as to be easily seen; important, well-known	23
285867266	Monumental architecture	Large man-made structures of stone or earth, often for political or cultural purposes, which come to represent a society	24
285867267	Infrastructure	The basic systems and structures that a country or organization needs in order to work properly, for example roads, railways, banks	25
285867268	Morality	The standards by which we judge our actions to be good or evil	26
285867269	Social mobility	The ability to move between social classes, to move out of the class a person is born into	27
285867270	Untouchable	Members of the lowest social class under the caste system in India; often had the worst jobs and faced discrimination	28
285867271	Scriptures	Sacred writings of any religion	29
285867272	Sati	The practice of some Hindus of women throwing themselves over their husband's funeral pyre (fire) and burning themselves	30
285867273	Polygamy	The practice of having more than one spouse at a time	31
285867274	Omnipotent	All-powerful, all-knowing	32
285867275	Deity	God or goddess	33
285867276	Secular	Worldly; not based in the church or religion	34
285867277	Filial piety	Respect for parents and elders	35