AP World History Vocab Flashcards

7276980079	agriculture	the science of farming practice, including acuiring soil for growing crops and rearing of animals to supply things like food and wool	0
7276985075	abolute ruler	a dictatorship or a form of government where the ruler is a complete dictator	1
7276990530	aristocracy	a form of government that the highest class in some places are the ones holding hereditary offices or titles	2
7276995201	bureaucracy	a type of government where most decisions are made by state officials instead of elected representatives	3
7277000533	chiefdom	a form of hierarchial political organization in non industrial societies usually based on kinship	4
7277006212	city-state	soverign state, or a type of small independant country, that is most often made up of a single city and its dependant territories	5
7277042563	coup de tat	the unjust and openly taking of a state by the military and other elites within a state	6
7277048627	democracy	a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, usually through elected representatives	7
7277057598	dynasty	a succession of people from the same family who play a dominant role in business, politics, or another field	8
7277067762	hereditary monarchy	where all the monarchs come from the same family, and the crown is passed down from one member to another member of the family	9
7277073005	king	male ruler of an independent state or country that has a royal family	10
7277077262	queen	the female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the role by right of birth	11
7277080674	emperor	a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire	12
7277084005	ruler	a person who is exercising government or dominion	13
7277098383	matriarchy	a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women	14
7277100024	oligarchy	a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution	15
7277106603	patriarchy	a system of society or government in which the father or the eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line	16
7277112050	theocracy	a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a go	17
7277117296	revolution	a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system	18
7277119908	gender roles	the role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by the prevailing cultural norms	19
7277141346	indentured servant	a person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, most of the time without pay but in exchange for a passage into a new country	20
7277146954	merchants	a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade	21
7277153820	nobility	a social class that is normally ranked directly under royalty	22
7277159476	peasant	a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation	23
7277161981	rural	a geographic area that is located outside of places such as main cities or towns	24
7277165034	scribe	a person who copies out documents	25
7277166543	serf	status of peasants under feudalism	26
7277167614	shaman	a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern asia and north america	27
7277174155	slave	a person who is forced to work for little to no pay in poor conditions	28
7277177630	urban	in, relating to, or a characteristic of a city or town	29
7277185780	afterlife	the belief that a key part of a persons identity keeps living after a person dies	30
7277201670	caste	each of the hereditary classes of hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status	31
7277216579	deities	supernatural, divine, or sacred beings	32
7277218361	epic of gilgamesh	an ancient mesopotamian poem that is said to be the first, or earliest, great piece of literature	33
7277224125	gods	supernatural beings that are said to be divine or sacred	34
7277263355	karma	your destiny or fate, which follows as the effect from cause	35
7277265796	monotheism	the belief in one, all powerful, God who created the world	36
7277276763	mandate of heaven	the idea that there was only one real ruler of China and that he was chosen by the Gods	37
7277289618	mummification	a practice used to help someone get into the afterlife	38
7277291941	mythology	the myths that certain people who believed them collected and studied	39
7277294863	oracle bones	the shoulder blades of oxen or plastrons or turtles which were used in the shang dynasty of china for divination	40
7277299037	polytheism	the belief or worship in more then one God	41
7277301630	pyramid	a structure used to house royal people who have died in cultures like mexican and the egyptian empire	42
7277311626	ritual	religious or solemn ceremonies consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order	43
7277316460	sati	the hindu custom that a widow would commit suicide either during or after their husbands funeral	44
7277320840	sacrifice	an act of slaughtering an animal or person or giving something up as an offering to God or to give a divine or supernatural figure	45
7277327132	scriptures	the sacred writings of christianity contained in the bible, or sacred writings of another religion	46
7277331817	temples	structures reserved for worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reference	47
7277351419	Yah Weh	the hebrew name for God and God was referred to as this in the Bible	48
7277354176	ziggurats	rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple	49