AP WORLD Flashcards

5151871138	Agrarian -economic	relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property	0
5151902132	Barbarian -political	a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person	1
5151909799	boddhisatva -cultural	a person who has attained prajna, or Enlightenment, but who postpones Nirvana in order to help others to attain Enlightenment	2
5151916070	bureaucracy -Political	the body of officials and administrators, especially of a government or government department.	3
5151918399	castration -cultural	deprive of power, vitality, or vigor.	4
5151923800	civilization -social	an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.	5
5151936839	classical -cultural	conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them.	6
5151943168	conscription -political	compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.	7
5151953951	consuls -political	an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.	8
5151961482	dictator -political	a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.	9
5151969892	economy -economic	thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.	10
5151980629	egalitarian -political, economic, social	asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life.	11
5151982242	emperor -political	the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire	12
5151996114	empire -social	a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government	13
5152002322	epidemics -interaction	affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.	14
5152008243	eunuchs -political	a castrated man, especially one formerly employed by rulers in the Middle East and Asia as a harem guard or palace official.	15
5152011900	feudalism -poltical	the feudal system, or its principles and practices.	16
5152015078	hegemony -political	leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.	17
5152023746	hierarchy -political	any system of persons or things ranked one above another.	18
5152016526	hierarchial -polticial	belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.	19
5152026837	missionaries -cultural	a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.	20
5162826240	monarchy -political	a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch.	21
5162831073	monsoons -interactions	the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.	22
5162834649	monotheism -cultural	the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.	23
5162840197	patricians -political	a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.	24
5162843386	patronage -political	the control of or power to make appointments to government jobs or the power to grant other political favors.	25
5162847338	philosophy -cultural	the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.	26
5162850012	plebians -social	belonging or pertaining to the common people.	27
5162853302	polytheism -cultural	the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.	28
5162856180	qanat -economic	a gently sloping underground tunnel for irrigation purposes, esp. in ancient Persia; also called kanat	29
5162861276	satrapies -political	the province or jurisdiction of a satrap.	30
5162866382	standardized coins -economic	a coin having value in bullion at least equal to its face value	31
5162867942	surplus -economic	agricultural produce or a quantity of food grown by a nation or area in excess of its needs, especially such a quantity of food purchased and stored by a governmental program of guaranteeing farmers a specific price for certain crops.	32
5162870522	sustenance -economic	means of sustaining life; nourishment.	33
5162872960	theocracy -political	a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.	34
5162882455	tribute -cultural	a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem.	35
5162884893	urbanization -social	the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city	36
5162887928	vassals -political	a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior	37
5162917331	Alexander The Great (166) -political	king of Macedonia 336-323: conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India	38
5162921222	Analects of Confucius (183) -political	Chinese Lun Yü. a compilation of the discourses, maxims, and aphorisms of Confucius	39
5162923198	bactria (209) -political	an ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains.	40
5162926978	bronze age (1112) -political	a period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used.	41
5162930378	byzantium (140) -political	an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara	42
5162934468	ceylon (222) -political	former name of Sri Lanka	43
5162940318	chang'an (194) -political	former name of Xian	44
5162945359	cleopatra (268) -poltical	queen of egypt	45
5162954498	Crete (232) -political	a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece	46
5162965474	Cyrus, Darius (159,162) -political	king of Persia 558?-529: founder of the Persian empire. king of Persia 521-486.	47
5187182146	democracy (236) -political	government by the people	48
5187189033	diocletian (306) -political	Illyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284-305.	49
5187194736	eight fold path (220) -cultural	the eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation.	50
5187201413	four noble truths (219) -cultural	the doctrines of Buddha: all life is suffering, the cause of suffering is ignorant desire, this desire can be destroyed, the means to this is the Eightfold Path.	51
5187214986	gothic migrations -interactions	The Migration period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or German: Völkerwanderung (wandering of the peoples), was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between the years 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages	52
5187222550	great wall (725) -political	a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC	53
5187224790	han dynasty (193) -political	imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy	54
5187233209	hellenism (242) -political	the characteristics of Greek culture, especially after the time of Alexander the Great; civilization of the Hellenistic period.	55
5187244149	the huns (213) -political	a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.	56
5187252348	indian ocean trade (215) -economic	connected to Europe, Africa, and China.; worlds richest maritime trading network and an area of rapid Muslim expansion.	57
5187262071	iron age (118) -political	the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.	58
5187335450	jewish diaspora -interaction	A "scattering" of the Jewish people	59
5187338715	khotan -political	an oasis in W China, in SW Xinjiang.	60
5187347958	kuqa -political	Ancient oasis town in western china	61
5187347959	legalism(188) -political	the principles and practices of a school of political theorists advocating strict legal control over all activities, a system of rewards and punishments uniform for all classes, and an absolute monarchy.	62
5187354346	marc antony -political	Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.	63
5187360495	noble eightfold path (220) -cultural	an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth.	64
5187390073	olympic games (1076) -cultural	Also called Olympian Games. the greatest of the games or festivals of ancient Greece, held every four years in the plain of Olympia in Elis, in honor of Zeus.	65
5187392790	pax romana (271) -social	the terms of peace imposed by ancient Rome on its dominions.	66
5187408514	pericles(237,240) -political	c495-429 b.c, Athenian statesman.	67
5187412514	persepolis(162,163,166) -political	an ancient capital of Persia	68
5187418719	ptolemy (242) -political	Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.	69
5187423637	punic wars(264) -political	The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC	70
5187430362	roman republic (260,262-264) -political	period from the overthrow of the last Roman king, Lucius Tarquinius, in 509 BC by the Roman nobility until the establishment of a permanent imperial dictatorship under Augustus	71
5187431997	roman senate -political	a political institution in ancient Rome	72
5187437199	samarkand (476) -political	a city in SE Uzbekistan: taken by Alexander the Great 329 b.c.	73
5187447634	shang civilization (111-114) -political	ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.	74
5187451972	shi huang Di (qin china) (190-193) -political	259-210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247-210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.	75
5187472158	Siddhartha Gautama -political	Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.	76
5187478851	Silk road trade (198,287-288) -economic	an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea.	77
5187480940	stoics (254,276-277,278-279) -cultural	of or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity.	78
5187486906	The Torah(47,48) -cultural	the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures	79
5187490112	the vedas of hinduism(94,99-101) -cultural	large body of texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent	80
5187493737	xiongnu (194,196,197,199,201,287) -political	a confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Asian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD.	81