Ap World History Vocab Flashcards

7652364978	Diversified Food Supplies	Large selection of foods	0
7652368059	Domesticated Animals	Any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment	1
7652371376	Diffusion	The spreading or something more widely	2
7652375892	Dharma	The principle of cosmic order	3
7652380973	Democracy	A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them	4
7652385196	Deity	A god or goddess	5
7652432821	Currency	A system of money in general use	6
7652439895	Complex Institutions	The specialization of trade	7
7652470379	Advanced Societies	in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached	8
7652479060	Civilizations	The most advanced stage of human social development and organization	9
7652490861	Villages	a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area	10
7652496264	Cities	is a place where a large population of people live	11
7652503081	Bureaucracy	A system of government in which most important decisions are made by state officials rather then by elected officials	12
7652509972	Brahmins	A member of a social and cultural elite	13
7652515486	Barbarian	A member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations	14
7652543994	Aristocracy	A form of government in which power is held by nobility. The highest class	15
7652664571	Agricultural Revolution	The transition from foraging to the cultivation of food occurring about 8000-2000 B.C.E; also known as the Neolithic Revolution	16
7652668662	Neolithic Revolution	The discovery of farming and the domestication of animals brought an end to the slow development of the hunting societies of the PALEOLITHIC and MESOLITHIC periods and initiated a time of rapid change that soon produced metal-working, cities, states, and empires.	17
7652678928	Intensive Cultivation	Intensive farming or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capital, labor, or heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area	18
7652687050	Ice Age	A glacial episode during a past geological period where the earth's temperature greatly dropped and killed	19
7652714677	Hunters and Gatherers	A hunter-gatherer or forager society is one in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species. Hunter-gatherers are a type of nomad	20
7652724069	Frontier	A line or border separating two countries, also the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially in reference to the Western US before Pacific settlement	21
7652727846	Ethical Legal Codes	A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct	22
7652729970	Egalitarian	Of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities	23
7652742417	Egalitarian	Of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities	24
7652749749	Dynasty	A series of rulers from the same family	25
7652764138	Irrigation Systems	Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and re vegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall	26
7652766817	Karma	he sum of a person's actions in this and the previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences, destiny or fate following as effect from cause (Hinduism and Buddhism)	27
7652769129	Mandate of Heaven	The concept developed by the Zhou dynasty that the deity granted a dynasty the right to rule and took away that right if the dynasty did not rule wisely	28
7652771847	Monogamy	The practice or state of being married to only one person at a time. The practice or state of having a sexual relationship with only ONE partner	29