AP World History Summer Vocab - SOCIAL TERMS Flashcards

7018412734	Aristocracy	the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices	0
7018412735	Civilization	the most advanced stage of human social development and organization, marked by settled societies, agricultural surplus, specialized labor, some type of government, and writing systems	1
7018412736	Cosmopolitan	dealing with a number of different cultures or backgrounds; a type of city made up of people from numerous different cultures living in peaceful proximity	2
7018413342	Epidemic	a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time	3
7018413343	Filial Piety	in Confucian philosophy, a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors	4
7018413991	Hunter-gatherer	a member of a society or group (often nomadic) that lives chiefly through hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food	5
7018413992	Indentured servant	a person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country	6
7018414616	Migration	movement of large groups from one region to another	7
7018414617	Neolithic Revolution	the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement (leading to a large human population increase)	8
7018415553	Nobility	the group of people belonging to the noble class in a society or country, especially those with a hereditary or honorary title	9
7018415554	Nomad	a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock	10
7018416632	Paleolithic	relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used	11
7018416633	Pandemic	a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over an entire country, region, or the world	12
7018421397	Patriarchy / Patriarchal	a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it; the eldest male is also generally the head of the family and descent/heredity is traced through the male line	13
7018421398	Serf	an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate; the laborer provides work, crops, and service to the lord in exchange for protection and land to live on	14
7018421399	Slave	a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them	15
7018422429	Urbanization	the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas	16