AP World History Review Flashcards

2487229179	Absolutism	The acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters	0
2487229180	Agriculture	Also called farming - the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinals and other products used to sustain and enhance human life	1
2487229181	Aristocracy	A form of government in which power is held by the nobility	2
2487229182	Bias	Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair	3
2487229183	Bureaucracy	A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives	4
2487229184	Chiefdom	A form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies in which formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families or "houses"	5
2487229185	City-State	An independent or autonomous entity, not administered as a part of another local government whose territory consists of a city and possibly its surrounding territory	6
2487229186	Civilization	Any complex state society characterized by a social hierarchy, symbolic communication forms, and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment	7
2487229187	Commercial	Engaged in commerce- the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any country	8
2487229188	Demography	The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations	9
2487229189	Divination	The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means	10
2487229190	Dynasty	A sequence of rulers considered as members of the same family	11
2487229191	Empire	A geographically extensive group of states and people United and ruled by a central authority either by a monarch or an oligarchy	12
2487229192	Epidemic	A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time	13
2487229193	Forage	To search widely for food or provisions	14
2487229194	Globalization	The process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture	15
2487229195	Indentured Servant	A labor system where young people paid for their passage to the new world by working for an employer for a number of years	16
2487229196	Inter regional	Relating to, or conducted between two or more regions	17
2487229197	Kingdom	A monarchy ruled by a king or queen	18
2487229198	Medieval	Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Middle Ages	19
2487229199	Merchant	A business person who trades in commodities produced by others, in order to earn a profit	20
2487229200	Monotheism	The belief that there is only one God	21
2487229201	Nation	A large group of people who share a common language, ethnicity, descent, or history	22
2487229202	Neolithic	Relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed	23
2487229203	Nobility	The quality of being noble in character, mind, birth, or rank	24
2487229204	Nomad	A member of a community of people who live from one place to another finding food, water, animals, and places to live	25
2487229205	Ocean	A large body of saline water that composes much of a planets hydrosphere	26
2487229206	Pandemic	An epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human population across a large region (multiple continents)	27
2487229207	Papacy	The office or authority of the pope	28
2487229208	Pastoral	Land or a farm used for the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle	29
2487229209	Patriarchal	A system of society or government controlled by men	30
2487229210	Periodization	The attempt to categorize universal history or divide time into named blocks	31
2487229211	Polytheism	The belief in or worship of more than one God	32
2487229212	Prehistoric	The time before written records	33
2487229213	Primary Source	Original matters that have not been altered or distorted in any way	34
2487229214	Revolution	A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system; instance of revolving	35
2487229215	Scribe	A person who writes books or documents by hand as a professions and helps keep track of records	36
2487229216	Sea	The connected body of salty water that covers 70% of the earths surface	37
2487229217	Secondary source	A document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere	38
2487229218	Serf	An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lords estate	39
2487229219	Shaman	A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially peoples of Asia and North America - practice divination and healing	40
2487229220	Slave	A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them	41
2487229221	State	The present condition of a system or entity	42
2487229222	Stepped	A large flat area of land with grass and very few trees especially in Eastern Europe and Asia	43
2487229223	Urban	Characterized by higher population density and human features in comparison to the areas surrounding it	44