AP World History (Vocab) Flashcards

7223969435	Absolutism	Acceptance of absolute principles in politics, philosophical, ethical or theological	0
7223973051	Agriculture	Farming and cultivation of the land	1
7223973916	Aristocracy	The highest class in certain societies, especially those holding heredity titles or offices	2
7223976520	Bias	Prejudice in favor of or against one thing/things compared with something else (usually unfair)	3
7223979843	Bureaucracy	A system of government in which most of the important decision	4
7223981293	Chiefdom	A form of hierarchical political organization in non industrial societies usually based on kinship and formal leadership is monopolized by the legitimate senior members of select families/"houses"	5
7223987178	City-state	A city surrounded by areas that forms a unique political unit	6
7223989130	Civilization	The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advance	7
7223991679	Commercial	Making or intending to make profit. Also concerned with or engaged in commerce	8
7223994512	Demography	The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of deaths, illustrates the changing structure of human population	9
7223998000	Divination	The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means	10
7224000480	Dynasty	Rulers from the family	11
7224001449	Empires	Multiple territories controlled by one person or government	12
7224004140	Epidemic	A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease at a particular time	13
7224009772	Forager	A search for supplies or make a raid	14
7224012586	Globalization		15
7224013496	Indentured Servant		16
7224013497	Interregional	Relates to or occurs between different regions	17
7224014991	Kingdom	A country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen	18
7224016131	Medieval	Another word for the Middle Ages	19
7224017069	Merchants	Professional traders	20
7224017772	Monotheism	Belief in one god	21
7224019114	Nation		22
7224019115	Neolithic	When people began to farm	23
7224020937	Nobility	A group of people belonging to the noble classes in a country	24
7224022116	Nomad	A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find a fresh pasture for their livestock	25
7224025294	Ocean	A very large expanse of sea, each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically	26
7224026820	Pandemic	An outbreak of a disease effecting the whole country or world	27
7224028497	Papacy	the office or authority of the Pope	28
7224029438	Pastoral	Concerns or appropriate to the the giving spiritual guidance	29
7224034907	Patriarchal	Relates to or characteristics of society or government controlled by men	30
7224036756	Periodization	The process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history	31
7224040913	Polytheism	A belief in more than one god	32
7224042543	Prehistoric	Time period before written records	33
7224043161	Revolution	A forcing overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system	34
7224044547	Rural	A countryside	35
7224044548	Scribe	A professional writer	36
7224046029	Secondary Source	Sources that describes and analyze primary accounts	37
7224046895	Serfs	Workers who are tied to the land on which they lived	38
7224047604	Shaman		39
7224048070	Slaves	People who are legal property of another and forced to obey the owner	40
7224048771	State	A nation/territory considered as an organized political community under one government	41
7224050313	Steppes	Large areas of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia	42
7224053015	Urban	A city	43