AP World History Review Flashcards

2535309276	aristocracy	a form of government in which power is held by the nobility	0
2535316377	bureaucracy	the administrative structure of a large or complex orginazation	1
2535320132	egalitarian	The belief that all people are created equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities	2
2535321107	intensive cultivation	An agricultural production system characterized by high inputs or labor	3
2535321125	karma	The sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as their deciding fate	4
2535322727	secular	Denoting attitudes, activities or other things that have no religious basis	5
2535322728	sericulture	The production of raw silk	6
2535325226	syncretism	Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion	7
2535325227	theocracy	A form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities	8
2535326402	animism	1) the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. 2) the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.	9
2535326403	bodhisattva	An enlightened being who, out of compassion, forgoes nirvana in order to save others	10
2535327686	codification	The arrangement or systemization of something into a code or set of codes	11
2535329425	dao/tao	The basic, eternal principle of the universe that transcends reality and is the source of being, non-being, and change	12
2535330539	Enlightenment	A blessed state in which the individual transcends desire and suffering and attains nirvana/moksha	13
2535331735	Hellenistic	A fusion of the Ancient Greek world with that of the Near East, Middle East and Southwest Asia, and a departure from earlier Greek attitudes towards "barbarian" cultures	14
2535331736	manifestations	An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea	15
2535333448	monastery	A community of persons, especially monks, bound by vows to a religious life and often living in partial or complete seclusion	16
2535333449	rajas	A prince, chief, or ruler in India or the East Indies	17
2535334748	rents	above-market returns to a factor of production	18
2535334749	republic	A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them	19
2535336321	shamanism	The animistic religion of certain peoples of northern Asia in which mediation between the visible and spirit worlds is affected by shamans	20
2535336332	sinicization	The action of making Chinese in character or changing or modifying by Chinese influence	21
2535338009	chinampa	A method of ancient Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico	22
2535338010	christendom	The part of the world where most people are Christians	23
2535340148	Dar al-Islam	Areas where Muslims are in the majority	24
2535340149	entrepot	A port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties	25
2535341901	fiefs	The property or fee granted to a vassal for his maintenance by his lord in return for service	26
2535341902	gentry	Persons of high birth or social standing	27
2535344516	Grand Canal in China	The longest canal or artificial river in the world; built by SUI dynasty	28
2535347441	Great Warming Period (800-1300)	A period in North America and Europe where temperatures are thought to have been warmer than in preceding and following periods	29
2535347442	griots	A member of a caste responsible for maintaining an oral record of tribal history in the form of music, poetry, and storytelling	30
2535349225	guilds	An association of persons of the same trade or pursuits, formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards	31
2535350525	Hanseatic League	A former economic and defensive confederation of free towns in northern Germany and neighboring areas	32
2535350526	kow tow	To kneel and touch the ground with the forehead in worship or submission as part of a Chinese custom	33
2535351645	mit'a	A system or tribute to the government in the form of labor in Incan society	34
2535352763	quipu	Recording devices historically used in the region of Andean South America	35
2535352764	sharia	The moral code and religious law of Islam	36
2535354302	Shia	The second largest denomination of Islam; think successor should have been Ali (muhammad's son)	37
2535354303	southernization	process that began in Southern Asia and spread to other places around the globe	38
2535355711	sufism	Syncretic faith between Hinduism and Islam, have allegiance to Allah but believed in Moksha and reincarnation	39
2535355712	sultan	definition: the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) significance: true leaders of dar al-Islam, set up a puppet state	40
2535357759	tax farming	a system for collecting taxes and other state revenues from the population. Under this system, the state transfers the right of collection to private individuals called tax farmers in exchange for a certain fee	41
2535357760	terances	method of growing crops on sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces built into the hill	42
2535359133	synthesized	The combination of two or more things to form something new	43
2535359134	ulama	The educated class of Muslim legal scholars engaged in the several fields of Islamic studies	44