AP World History Terms Flashcards

10529340986	absolutism	a political system in which a ruler holds total power	0
10529343781	agriculture	the raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products	1
10529345676	aristocracy	a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility	2
10529349104	bourgeoisie	the middle class	3
10529350093	bureaucracy	a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials	4
10529353435	chiefdom	the kin structure with centralized points of authority (chiefs) within own specific groups or community	5
10529356115	city-state	a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland	6
10529357446	civilization	a complex, highly organized social order	7
10529359604	demography	the scientific study of population characteristics	8
10529361156	divination	the practice of seeking knowledge of the future of the unknown by supernatural means	9
10529366259	dynasty	a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family	10
10529366260	empire	a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government	11
10529368518	epidemic	a regional outbreak of a disease	12
10529369379	feudalism	a political system based on bands of loyalty between lords and vassals, developed in the 8th century by European society	13
10529372599	globalization	the development of a worldwide culture with an interdependent economy	14
10529373807	indentured servant	one who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for free passage to America	15
10529376880	interegional	interaction between regions	16
10529377834	kingdom	a political region governed by a king or queen	17
10529381832	medieval	in reference to the Middle Ages	18
10529384762	merchant	a person who buys and sells goods	19
10529386167	monotheism	the belief in one god or deity	20
10529387576	nation (not country)	a group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity	21
10529390255	neolithic	the period of time about 10,000 BC, also called the Stone Age	22
10529391964	nobility	the quality o being noble in character, mind, birth, or rank	23
10529393317	nomad	a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons	24
10529395511	pandemic	a global outbreak of an infectious disease	25
10529397204	papacy	the central administration of the Roman Catholic church, of which the pope is the head	26
10529400192	pastoral	in reference to shepherds and herders	27
10529402672	patriarchal	in relation to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority	28
10529404241	periodization	the division of history into periods of time	29
10529406919	polytheism	the belief in multiple gods or deities	30
10529408111	primary source	a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study	31
10529410782	proselytize	to seek to convert someone to a religion, cause, belief, or political position	32
10529412506	revolution	a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system	33
10529414984	scribe	a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented	34
10529417505	secondary source	information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event	35
10529419182	serf	a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord	36
10529420149	shaman	an ancient doctor, healer, or priest that was called upon for religious ceremonies	37
10529422072	rural	rustic, relating to the country or farming	38
10529423686	slave	a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them	39
10529429262	state	a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government	40
10529430912	steppes	a large area of flat, unforested dry grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia	41
10529435409	urban	relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area	42