AP world history vocab Flashcards

7223582218	Absolutism	absolute power to the government	0
7223582219	Chiefdom	A political organization by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns	1
7223582220	Demography	the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, etc.	2
7223582221	Empire	an extensive group of states or countries ruled together by one government	3
7223582222	Genocide	deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially of a specific ethnic group	4
7223582223	Interregenial	relating to or occuring between two countries	5
7223582224	Monotheism	the belief in one single god such as judaism, christianity, or islam	6
7223582225	Nobility	the group of people belonging to the highest social class in a country	7
7223582226	Pastoral	related to Shepherds or herdsmen devoted to raising sheep or cattle	8
7223582227	Prehistoric	referring to the time before written records	9
7223582228	Scribe	a person who copies out documents	10
7223582229	Slave	a person who is of legal property to another and is forced to obey them	11
7223582230	Theocracy	a form of government where the main ruler is seen as the god	12
7223582231	Agriculture	the science or occupation of farming	13
7223582232	City-state	a state consisting of a city and surrounding territory that has its own government	14
7223582233	Diaspora	the scattering of jews after being captive/ the scattering of people from there homeland	15
7223582234	Epidemic	a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in community	16
7223582235	Globalization	extending and connecting to other parts of the world	17
7223582236	Kingdom	a country whose ruler is a king or queen	18
7223582237	Nation	a large group of people living in a territory with its own government	19
7223582238	Nomad	a people who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock never staying in one place	20
7223582239	patriarchal	a group controlled by a male	21
7223582240	Primary source	an artifact, document, recording, diary, autobiography, or anything else that was created at that time	22
7223582241	Secondary source	something created after the event or time period ocurred made by someone who did not experience it first hand	23
7223582242	Socialism	all people receive equal portions instead of competing for it	24
7223582243	Urban	belonging or relating to a town or city	25
7223582244	Aristocracy	the highest class in certain societies especially those with titles or offices	26
7223582245	Civilizations	when a human society has a high level of culture, science, industry, and government	27
7223582246	Divine	of, from, of like god	28
7223582247	Feudalism	european political system in which a lord owned all land while vassals and serfs farmed it	29
7223582248	Imperialism	a government that fights or uses politics to take control of other areas	30
7223582249	Medieval	relating to the middle ages of europe	31
7223582250	Nation-state	a state consisting of a single group of people with the same language, race, and religion	32
7223582251	Pandemic	a disease that effects a large geographic area of population	33
7223582252	Periodization	the dividing or categorizing of the past into certain blocks of time	34
7223582253	Revolution	the sometimes violent attempt of a certain group of people to overthrow a government in favor of a new system	35
7223582254	Serf	An agricultural laborer who work his lords estate	36
7223582255	State	a politically organized group of people that may or may not be sovereign and have one government	37
7223582256	Bureaucracy	a system of government where most decisions are not made by the elected officials instead by state officials	38
7223582257	Colonialism	when one country becomes an empire by taking control over other countries and turning them into colonies so they can have their money and food	39
7223582258	Dynasty	a line of hereditary rulers of a country	40
7223582259	Forager	a person who seeks or looks for food or other needed resources	41
7223582260	indentured servant	a person on a contract to work for another person for a period of time usually for passage into another country	42
7223582261	Merchant	a buyer and seller of items for their own profit	43
7223582262	Neolithic	a period of time where farming, crafting, and the domestication of animals began	44
7223582263	Papacy	the office or authority of the pope	45
7223582264	Polytheism	the belief or worship of more than one god	46
7223582265	Rural	relating to the countryside other than the town	47
7223582266	Shaman	someone who is regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.	48
7223582267	Syncretism	the combination of different beliefs and religions	49