Ap world history vocabulary Flashcards

3346800146	Absolution	Political philosophy that stressed the divine right theory of King ship	0
3346800147	Agriculture	The science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding/breeding/ and raising livestock	1
3346800148	Aristocracy	Class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges	2
3346800963	Bias	A particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling or opinion especially one that is pre-conceived or unreasoned	3
3346808150	Bureaucracy	The body of officials and administrators especially of the government or government department	4
3346811972	Chiefdom	The rank or office of the chief	5
3346817038	City State	Urban areas that controlled surrounding agricultural regions in that were often loosely connected in a broader political structure with other city states	6
3346820459	Civilization	In advance to state of human society in which a high level of culture, science, industry and government has been reached	7
3346830848	Commercial	Able to yield or make profit	8
3346834987	Demography	The science of vital and social statistics of populations	9
3346837145	Divination	The practice of attempting to Fort Hill future events were discovered knowledge	10
3346839622	Dynasty	Sequence of rulers from the same family	11
3346841660	Empire	Group of nations are people ruled over by an emperor	12
3346844253	Epidemic	Rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something	13
3346846830	Forager	Food for horses or cattle	14
3346848929	Globalization	The breaking down of traditional boundaries in the face of increasingly global financial and cultural trends	15
3346851864	Indentured servant	A person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another period of time	16
3346855306	Kingdom	State or government have any queen or king as its head	17
3346857325	Medieval	Pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the middle ages	18
3346864235	Merchant	A person who buys and sells commodities for profit	19
3346866637	Monotheism	Belief in only one God, rare concept in ancient world	20
3346869274	Nation	The territory or country itself	21
3346875345	Neolithic	New Stone Age 10,000 4000 B.C.E. which was marked by the discovery in the mastery of agriculture	22
3346882476	Nobility	The noble class or body of nobles in a country	23
3346884925	Nomad	A member of a people or tribe that has no permanent home but moves place to place	24
3346888033	Ocean	The vast body of salt water that covers almost 3/4 of the earths surface	25
3346890197	Pandemic	(Of the disease) epidemic over a large area	26
3346894497	Papacy	The office, dignity or jurisdiction of the pope	27
3346897276	Pastoral	Pertaining to the country or to life in the country	28
3346900480	Patriarchal	Characteristic of an entity, family, church, etc. controlled by men	29
3346908898	Periodization	In act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study	30
3346913921	Polytheism	The belief in many gods	31
3346915800	Prehistoric	Of or relating to the time prior to recording history	32
3346919678	Primary source	First or highest rank in importance for finding information	33
3346926287	Revolution	A radical and pervasive change in society and social structure	34
3346929856	Rural	Of, relating to, characteristic of the country life/country	35
3346936665	Scribe	Professional writer who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing	36
3346940207	Serf	Peasants who were tied to the land and owed obligation to the Lords on whose land they worked	37
3346944773	Shaman	The person who acts as intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds	38
3346948164	Slave	A person who is the property of and wholly subject to another, a bond servant	39
3346954498	State	A politically unified people occupying a definite territory, nation	40
3346958782	Steppes	An extensive plane, especially one without trees	41
3346970823	Secondary source	Second or lower in rank in importance for finding information	42
3346986903	Urban	Of, relating to or designating a city or town	43