AP World History Vocab Flashcards

2832425837	absolutism	a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one authority	0
2832428163	agriculture	the practice of farming, that includes cultivation of the soil for growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food and other products	1
2832432415	aristocracy	the highest class in certain societies; a form of government in which power is held by nobility	2
2832436728	bias	prejudice by means of a strong inclination of the mind or a preconceived opinion about something or someone	3
2832439391	bureaucracy	a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives	4
2832443008	chiefdom	a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies in which formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families or houses	5
2832448079	city-state	a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state	6
2832449933	civilization	the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced; the society, culture and way of life of a particular area.	7
2832456556	commercial	something or someone that is concerned with or engaged in commerce	8
2832459052	demography	the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or incidence of disease, which illustrates the changing structure of human populations	9
2832463543	divination	the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means	10
2832466121	dynasty	a line of hereditary rulers of a country	11
2832467529	empire	an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority	12
2832471365	epidemic	a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time	13
2832472974	forager	a person or animal that searches widely for food or provisions	14
2832474353	globalization	a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, driven by trade and investment	15
2832478588	indentured servant	a person who was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries in order to gain voyage to another country, particularly America	16
2832481899	interregional	something of, involving, or connecting two of more regions	17
2832484019	kingdom	a country, state or territory ruled by a king or queen	18
2832485525	medieval	something of or relating to the Middle Ages	19
2832486723	merchant	a person of company involved in wholesale trade	20
2832488983	monotheism	the doctrine of belief that there is only one God	21
2832492796	nation	a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory	22
2832505982	Neolithic	something of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age	23
2832508880	nobility	a group of people belonging to the noble class in a country, especially those with a hereditary or honorary title	24
2832513807	nomad	a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place	25
2832515672	ocean	a very large expanse of sea	26
2832526932	pandemic	an outbreak of a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world	27
2832529678	papacy	the office or authority of the pope	28
2832530946	pastoral	a land used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle	29
2832533942	patriarchal	something of, relating to, or characteristic of a patriarch	30
2832535948	periodization	the act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study	31
2832539433	polytheism	the belief or worship of more than one god	32
2832541023	prehistoric	something of, relating to, or denoting the period before written records	33
2832544362	primary source	a document or physical object written or created during the time being studied; includes people who witnessed it or were there, books written by those same people, artifacts, and documents	34
2832556987	revolution	a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system	35
2832559718	rural	something in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside	36
2832561475	scribe	a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do so before printing was invented	37
2832563613	secondary source	usually a scholarly book or article written about the time being studied	38
2832566280	serf	an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate	39
2832574458	shaman	a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits	40
2832576891	slave	a person who was the legal property of another and was forced to obey them	41
2832578511	state	a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government	42
2832581289	steppes	large areas of flat, unforested grasslands in southeastern Europe or Siberia	43
2832585667	urban	something in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town	44