ap world history Flashcards

7349296231	agriculture	the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming	0
7349300269	Agrarian	relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property	1
7364658925	analyze	to examine critically and bring out the essential elements	2
7364662156	Animism	the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possesses souls	3
7364670521	art	the expression or application of human creative skill in a visual form such as painting or sculpture	4
7366408478	emigration	the act of leaving one's country permanently to settle in another	5
7366412679	elite	a special selection of a group that is superior to everyone else because of ablilties	6
7366425088	economy	the state of a country or region in terms of production and consumption of goods and services and supply of money	7
7366437000	demography	the study of statistics that affect the human population such as birth, death, and income	8
7366444545	coup (d'etat)	the sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government	9
7366476977	belief system	a set of principles that define the basis of religion and philposophy	10
7366497740	climate	the general weather condition in an area of a long period of time	11
7366504714	domestication	the process of taming and keeping and animal for home and farm use	12
7366507115	continuity	the unbroken and consistent period of something	13
7366524791	diffusion	circulation of ELEMENTS of one culture to another set of people	14
7366532370	Egalitarianism	the doctrine stating that all people are equal and have equal rights	15
7366540588	diaspora (Greek for dispersion)	communities of ethnic groups that live outside of their homeland	16
7366622132	empire	an large group of states under a single supreme authority	17
7366648243	epidemic	a situation where a large number of people have caught the same infectious disease at one time	18
7366765587	Filial Piety	a virtue of respect for parents, elders, and ancestors in Confucian philosophy	19
7366778558	gender	the state of being male or female (usually used in cultural differences)	20
7366811518	geography	the study of the physical features of the earth and how people relate to them (land use, population)	21
7367846107	kinship	the relation between the members of the same family	22
7367906678	matrilineal	of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line	23
7368098238	history	the study of past events of development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices	24
7368104410	imperial	relating to empire or the emperor	25
7368107371	Neolithic	period of the Stone Age more widely known as the age of Agricultural Revolutions (comes after Paleolithic age)	26
7368205345	bureaucracies	systems of government in which state officials make the important decisions rather than the elected representatives	27
7368288700	pop culture	entertainment spread by mass communications and enjoyed by worldwide appeal	28
7368359571	Nomadic	a group of people that continuously migrate to find pastures and water due to scarcity of resources	29
7368368416	philosophy	the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence	30
7368390719	maritime	relating to shipping or other activities near the sea	31
7368414125	pastoral	relating to keeping or grazing of sheep and cattle	32
7368450054	rural	relating to the countryside and not the town	33
7368466472	urban	relating or characteristic of a city or town	34
7368495507	political structure	the way that the government is run by interactions, regulations, and laws in the group.	35
7368524228	popular	suited for the general public	36
7368539735	revolution	FORCIBLE overthrow of a government based on the favor of a new system	37
7368606091	periodization	dividing the past into discrete, quantified, named blocks that facilitate the study of history	38
7368619058	patriarchy	a government or system run by male leaders and the head of the family is descended through the male line	39
7368631325	Paleolithic	the old Stone Age and before the Neolithic Age	40
7368656346	prehistory	period of time before written records	41
7368677736	religion	a particular system of faith and worship in a supernatural controlling force, such as gods	42
7368771358	civilization	ADVANCED STAGE of human development where people behave well to one another and share the same culture in an area or period of time	43
7368845351	culture	arts, customs, and achievements of a social group or nation	44
7368959456	suffrage	right to politically vote	45
7369009309	trade	buying, selling, and exchange of goods and services	46
7369033707	tribute	doing an act to show respect and admiration for someone	47
7369055529	syncretism	the attempt of combining different religion, culture, or school of thought	48
7369073044	secession	the act of withdrawing yourself from a political party	49
7369091526	surplus	an excess amount than what is needed	50
7369105444	urbanization	making an area more city-like	51
7369116997	technology	application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes	52
7369214360	secular	not concerned with a religion and not religious or sacred	53
7369243520	state	a nation or territory considered as organized community under one government	54
7369254954	science	study or knowledge of the physical and natural world with observation and experiment	55
7369278440	social class	a division of people based on social class and economic status	56