AP World History Vocab Flashcards

2827879602	absolutism	a form of government where unlimited, complete power is held by one individual (dictator)	0
2827881955	agriculture	cultivating of land to produce crops and raise livestock for human consumption	1
2827885623	aristocracy	government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class and may be known as superior/have a high rank	2
2827889921	bias	prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared to another, usually in a way that is considered to be unfair	3
2827907017	bureaucracy	system of managing government though departments run by appointed officials who are not elected	4
2827910932	chiefdom	type of complex society of varying degrees of centralization that is led by an individual known as a chief that has military and political power	5
2827916310	city-state	small, independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory / establishment led civilizations to rise or decline	6
2827969113	civilization	society in an advanced state of social development with legal, political, and religious organizations	7
2827971924	commercial	related to or used in the buying and selling of goods and services	8
2827975372	demography	science of vital and social statistics (births, deaths, marriages etc.) of populations	9
2827989825	divination	practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means	10
2827993195	dynasty	series of rulers from a single family	11
2827993821	empire	many territories, countries, or people controlled by one ruler; formed by the domination of one cultural group over other different culture groups	12
2827999836	epidemic	rapid spread of diseases to a large number of people in a given population in an area	13
2828022254	forager	people who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering edible plants and insects	14
2828023795	globalization	worldwide movement of products/trade	15
2828025323	indentured servant	worker under a contract to an employer for a fixed period of time	16
2828031088	interregional	when something involves or connects two or more regions	17
2828032609	kingdom	country, state, or territory ruled by a king and/or queen	18
2828034024	medieval	relates to middle ages or is used when referring to something very old fashioned	19
2828036220	merchant	person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchants to a particular trade	20
2828041129	monotheism	belief in a single god	21
2828056851	nation	large body of people united by a common culture, history, or language that live in the same country or region	22
2828080157	neolithic	period of the stone Age associated with the ancient agriculture revolutions; made new lengths of advancement for many civilizations	23
2828092269	nobility	daily citizens who are neither rich or poor and didn't really have a say in their community	24
2828097283	nomad	member of a group that has no permanent home and that wanders from place to place in search of food and water	25
2828099343	ocean	body of salt water divided geographically	26
2828100464	pandemic	occurs over a whole geographic area and affects a high portion of a population (worldwide)	27
2828103059	papacy	central administration of the Roman Catholic Church of which the Pope is the head	28
2828106114	pastoral	relating to the shepherd or herdsmen devoted to raising sheep or cattle OR work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life	29
2828111026	patriarchal	relates to a social system in which the father is the head of the family	30
2828112119	periodization	act categorizing/dividing time into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study	31
2828117038	polytheism	belief that there are multiple gods	32
2828117781	prehistoric	refers to a period of time before human existence and a period prior to recorded history	33
2828120789	primary source	artifact, original document, or some other source of information that was created at the time that is being studied	34
2828124046	revolution	overthrow and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people being governed	35
2828125770	rural	space of land that has few homes/buildings low population density homes and buildings far apart	36
2828128897	scribe	professional record keepers in early civilizations who were usually males who applied their skills in reading and writing	37
2828135751	secondary source	books and articles that give information on a certain event; interprets and analyzes primary sources	38
2828138348	serf	medieval peasant legally bound to live in a Lord's estate	39
2828145673	shaman	person regarded as having access to both the natural and supernatural; connects with worlds of spirits and gods and in some cultures can even cure people	40
2828155047	slave	person who is owned as property and is forced to serve that person without any type of pay	41
2828157358	state	has a defined territory, a permanent population	42
2828160197	steppes	dry, grass covered plains	43
2828161415	urban	densely populated nonagricultural jobs homes and buildings very close	44