AP World History vocab Flashcards

2909000319	Paleolithic Age	The beginnings of mankind	0
2909000320	Neolithic Rev	Beginnings of agriculture and domestication of plants and animals	1
2909000321	City-State	A city that is independent and has its own king but it's part of a state	2
2909000322	Theocracy	A system of gov where god is the ruler	3
2909000323	Cuneiform	Denoting or relating to the wedge shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia	4
2909000324	Code of Hammurabi	First written code of laws	5
2909000325	Torah	Judaism's sacred text	6
2909000326	Diaspora	The dispersion of any people from their original homeland	7
2909000327	Dharma	The following of religious ethics based on location of caste system	8
2909000328	Moksha	Hindu's version of heaven	9
2909000329	Deference	Acceptance of others being better	10
2909000330	Nirvana	Buddhism's enlightenment	11
2909000331	Bureaucracy	System of gov in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials	12
2909000332	Filial Piety	A virtue of respect for ones father, elders, and ancestors	13
2909000333	Aristocracy	Highest class, form of gov in which power is held by nobility	14
2909000334	Mandate of Heaven	Ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly	15
2909000335	Legalism	Strict adherence to law or prescription, the doctrine that salvation is gained through good works	16
2909000336	Daoism	Philosophical, ethical or religious tradition of Chinese origin that emphasizes living in harmony with the Dao	17
3005916974	Secular	Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual beliefs	18
3005923613	Coup D Etat	A sudden decisive exercise of force in politics, violent overthrow of alteration of existing gov	19
3005937809	Oligarchy	A small group of people having control	20
3005940375	Monarchy	Supreme power to one person	21
3005954453	Heresy	Dissenting view, nonbeliever	22
3005958542	Conscription	Military draft	23
3005962212	Blasphemy	Speech or actions that are disrespectful to sacred	24
3005965224	Grassroot	Originating	25
3005968313	Military-Industrial Complex	A country's military establishment and those industries producing armies or other military materials, regarded as powerful vested interest	26
3005976314	Dowry	Property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage	27
3006233852	Patricians	Aristocratic peeps	28
3006237216	Plebians	Poor peeps	29
3006248108	Athens	Depended on sea trade, reliant on slaves, democratic, education and artistic expression is focused	30
3006254025	Sparta	Aristocratic gov focuses on building a strong military, oligarchy, economy relied on agriculture and slaves	31
3006263971	Julius Caesar	After his assassination in 44BCE, it led to the Roman Empire	32
3006283703	Bicameral Legistlature	Two houses, veto, checks and balances	33
3006519169	Socrates	Socratic method of questioning	34
3006521892	Plato	Wanted to help us understand world better with cave metalhor	35
3006527060	Aristotle	First to classify areas of human knowledge, first to develop a formalized statement for reasoning	36
3006537961	Alexander the Great	Conquered much of the land and spread Hellenistic culture and never was defeated	37
3006542249	Archimedes	Invented the pully, the screw and war machines and calculated pi	38
3006549964	Eratosthenes	Estimated circumference of earth, coined term geography, created sieve for prime numbers	39
3006555803	Pythagoras	Founded Pythagorean theorem	40
3006558405	Hippocrates	Hippo Oath	41
3005945471	Popular sovereignty	The doctrine in political theory that gov is created by and subjected to the will of the people	42