AP World History Vocab Flashcards

4788910946	agrarian	relating to fields or land for farming	0
4788910947	analysis	separating a whole entity into its component parts for examination	1
4788910948	artifact	something made or altered by humans for a practical purpose (used for historical analysis, especially before writing)	2
4788910949	assimilation	to incorporate and absorb into surrounding environment	3
4788910950	barter	to trade one commodity for another without the use of money	4
4788910951	BC/BCE	Before Christ/Before Common Era	5
4788910952	AD/CE	Anno Domini (in the year of our lord)/Common Era	6
4788910953	bias	tendency toward prejudice; personal judgement	7
4788910954	bureaucracy	a body of non-elected government officials that make policy	8
4788910955	capitalism	economic system characterized by private ownership, free-enterprise and lack of government involvement in the economy	9
4788910956	cash crop	a readily salable crop produced primarily for market (ex: cotton, tobacco)	10
4788910957	century	a grouping of 100 years	11
4788910958	chronology	an arrangement of events in order of occurrence (1st to last)	12
4788910959	circa	at, in or approximately; used especially with dates (ex. Circa 1570)	13
4788910960	circum-maritime	world-wide, ocean-going trade	14
4788910961	city-state	an autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory	15
4788910962	civilization	a relatively high level of cultural and technological development (including writing)	16
4788910963	codify	to classify and formally write down	17
4788910964	colonialism	control by one power or country over a dependent area and/or people	18
4788910965	command economy	economic system where activity is controlled by a central authority (government) and means of production are publicly owned	19
4788910966	comparison	examination of two entities, noting similarities and differences	20
4788910967	connection	a causal or logical relationship, a tie	21
4788910968	consumer	one that uses or utilized economic goods and serivices	22
4788910969	continuity	uninterrupted and/or duration without essential change(s)	23
4788910970	coup d'etat	a sudden, decisive exercise of force in politics; violent overthrow or altering of existing government by a small group	24
4788910971	culture	the characteristic features of a group or people: includes food, religion, etc	25
4788910972	decade	a grouping of ten years	26
4788910973	decolonization	to be free from colonial status	27
4788910974	demography	the statistical study of human populations especially related to size, distribution, density, and vital statistics	28
4788910975	dictator	a person granted absolute power and control	29
4788910976	diffusion	spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to another through contact	30
4788910977	diversity	being composed of different elements (as peoples, races, cultures)	31
4788910978	domestic	of or relating to one's own home country	32
4788910979	domestication	to adapt animals and/or plants for human use and benefit	33
4788910980	dynasty	a succession of rulers from the same family	34
4788910981	ecumene	the permanently inhabited portion of the earth	35
4788910982	elites	the best or highest of a class, socially superior	36
4788910983	emancipation	liberation, freeing (as in slaves)	37
4788910984	empire	a political unit having a great extent of territories or peoples under a single authority	38
4788910985	entrepot	a centre of trade and transshipment	39
4788910986	entrepreneur	one who organizes, manages and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise	40
4788910987	era	a period of time identified by prominent of characteristic features	41
4788910988	evolution	a process of continual change	42
4788910989	ethnic group	large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic or cultural origin or background	43
4788910990	ethno-centrism	having the attitude that one's own culture group is superior to others	44
4788910991	expansion	increasing in size	45
4788910992	fact	something that is provable; verifiable, actual	46
4788910993	federal	relating to the national government	47
4788910994	federalism	in the U.S., a division of power between the national and the state governments	48
4788910995	feudalism	political system where underlords hold/use land in return for military protection and peasants work the land in return for protection	49
4788910996	forage	to wander in search of food	50
4788910997	gender	the behavioral, cultural or psychological traits typically associated with one sex, male or female	51
4788910998	genocide	the deliberate, systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group	52
4788910999	global	of or relating to the entire world	53
4788911000	globalization	the development of an increasingly integrated world economy	54
4788911001	habitat	the place or environment where a plant, animal or person naturally lives	55
4788911002	hegemony	influence or authority exerted by a dominant group over others	56