AP World History Vocab Flashcards

5667202559	Hominid	Humans and other creatures that walk upright	0
5667202560	Civilization	A complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structures, religion and art	1
5667202561	Plebian	In the roman republic a social clas made up of minor landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers	2
5667202562	Triumvirate	A government by 3 people with equal powers	3
5667202563	Hijrah	The journey of Muhammad and his followers to Madinah in 622, which became year of the official calender of Islam	4
5667202564	Hijj	A pilgrimage to Makka, one of the requirments of the 5 pillars of Islam	5
5667202565	Feudalism	Polical and social order that developed during the middle ages when royal governments were no longer able to defend their subjects; nobles offered protection and land in return for service	6
5667202566	Vassal	Under feudalism, a man who served a lord in a military capacity	7
5667202567	Chivalry	In the middle ages, the ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; code of ethics knights had to uphold	8
5667202568	Fief	Under feudalism, a grant of land made to a vassal	9
5667202569	Dowry	A gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage, either by the bride's parents to her husband or, in Islamic societies by a husband to his wife	10
5667202570	Lay investiture	The practice by which secular rulers both chose nominees to church offices and gave the symbols of their office	11
5667202571	Interdict	A decree by the pope that forbade priests from frin giving the sacraments of the church to the people	12
5667202572	Infidel	An unbeliever	13
5667202573	Anti-semitism	Hostility or discrimination against Jews	14
5667202574	Humanism	An intellectual movement of the renaissance based on the study	15
5667202575	Indulgence	A release from all or part of punishments for sin by the catholic church	16
5667202576	Predestination	Belief that God has determined in advance who will be saved and who will be damned	17
5667202577	Mercantillism	A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century	18
5667202578	Encomienda	A system of labor the spanish used in the americas	19
5667202579	Inflation	Rapid increase in prices	20
5667202580	Divine right of kings	The belief that kings recieve their power from God and are responsible to only god	21
5667202581	Puritans	English protestants who thought church needed further reform and sought to simplify forms of worship	22
5667202582	Natural rights	The principle set forth by charles darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others	23
5667202583	Absolutism	Political system in which ruler has total power	24
5667202584	Mannerism	An artistic movement that emerged in Italy; marked the end of the renaissance by breaking down principles of balance, harmony, and moderationn	25