AP World History Vocabulary Review Flashcards

14008072348	Vedas	"Wisdom," early collections of prayers and hymns that provide information about the Indo-European Aryans who migrated to India around 1500 B.C.E.	0
14008072349	Theocracy	A government ruled by God or by church leaders	1
14008072350	Aristocracy	a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility	2
14008072351	Artisan	a craftsman	3
14008072352	Civilization	A cultural group with advanced cities, complex institutions, skilled workers, advanced technology, and a system of recordkeeping	4
14008072353	Edict of Milan	A document that made Christianity one of the religions allowed in the Roman Empire	5
14008072354	polis	Greek city-state	6
14008072355	Indo-Europeans	A group of semi-nomadic people who, around 2000 B.C.E. began to migrate from central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East	7
14008072356	Brahmin	a member of the social class of priests in Aryan society	8
14008072357	Quetzalcoatl	A Mesoamerica legend of a god who would someday return to rule his people in peace	9
14008072358	Huns	A nomadic group, believed to be from Central Asia, who invaded into Europe near the end of Rome	10
14008072359	Democracy	a political system in which the people rule	11
14008072360	Monsoon	A seasonal wind	12
14008072361	Dynasty	a series of rulers from the same family	13
14008072362	Hieroglyphics	A system of picture writing used in Egypt	14
14008072363	Cuneiform	a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge-shaped stylus was used to press symbols into clay	15
14008072364	Foraging	A term for hunting and gathering	16
14008072365	Covenant	agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind	17
14008072366	Slash-and-burn	An agricultural method in which farmers clear fields by cutting and burning trees, then use the ashes as fertilizer	18
14008072367	Pharaoh	An Egyptian monarch	19
14008072368	Artifact	an object made by human hands	20
14008072369	Oracle Bones	animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future	21
14008072370	Bodhisattvas	Buddhist holy men who accumulated spiritual merits during their lifetime; Buddhists prayed to them in order to receive some of their holiness.	22
14008072371	Silk Roads	Caravan routes and sea lanes between China and the Middle East.	23
14008072372	Analects	collection of teachings and sayings made by Confucius	24
14008072373	Jati	Complicated system of subcastes in the Hindu caste system.	25
14008072374	Steppe	Dry grassland.	26
14008072375	Mystery religion	During the Hellenistic age, religions that promised their faithful followers eternity a state of bliss	27
14008072376	Yahweh	God of the monotheistic religion of Judaism that influcenced later religions of Christianity and Islam	28
14008072377	Aristotle	Greek philosopher who rejected the theory of forms and ideas, he believed that people could depend on their senses and reason to answer the mysteries of the world	29
14008072378	Yin and yang	In ancient Chinese belief, the opposing forces that bring balance to nature and life.	30
14008072379	Nirvana	In Buddhism, a state of perfect peace that is the goal of reincarnation	31
14008072380	Filial piety	In China, respect for one's parents and other elders.	32
14008072381	Moksha	In Hindu belief, the spirit's liberation from the cycle of reincarnation	33
14008072382	Latifundia	Large landholdings in the Roman Empire	34
14008072383	Alexander the Great	Macedonian king who led an army Eastward and conquered land from Greece to India. He was known as a brilliant military leader and his death marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Era	35
14008072384	Ziggurat	Mesopotamian Temples	36
14008072385	Disciple	One of the 12 followers of Christ, or any of the professed followers of Christ in his lifetime.	37
14008072386	Zoroastrianism	Persian religion based on the teaching of the 6th century BCE prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions	38
14008072387	Patriarchal	Pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family	39
14008072388	Reincarnation	Rebirth; a belief of both Buddhism and Hinduism	40
14008072389	Matrilineal	Referring to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother	41
14008072390	Twelve tables	The codification of Roman law during the republic	42
14008072391	Mandate of heaven	The "will of the gods" that granted a ruler the right to rule	43
14008072392	Geocentric theory	the belief held by many before the Scientific Revolution that the earth is the center of the universe	44
14008072393	Polytheism	The belief in many gods	45
14008072394	Monotheism	Belief in one God	46
14008072395	Animism	The belief that spirits inhabit the features of nature	47
14008072396	Hsiung-nu	The Central Nomadic people who invaded into China in the ancient world	48
14008072397	Sati	The custom among the higher castes of Hinduism of a widow throwing herself on the burning funeral pyre of her husband.	49
14008072398	Specialization of labor	The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work	50
14008072399	Hellenistic age	The era in which Greek culture blended with Persian and other Eastern influences and spread throughout the former empire of Alexander the Great	51
14008072400	Diaspora	the exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland	52
14008072401	Torah	The first five books of the Jewish scripture.	53
14008072402	Pope	The head of the Roman Catholic Church.	54
14008072403	Varna	The Hindu word for caste	55
14008072404	Independent invention	The idea that ancient civilizations were able to achieve characteristics of civilization without contact with others	56
14008072405	Neolithic revolution	The introduction of agriculture, domestication of animals, and a more sedentary life during the Neolithic Age	57
14008072406	Ten commandments	The moral law of the Hebrews.	58
14008072407	Stoicism	The most popular Hellenistic philosophy; it involved strict discipline and an emphasis on helping others.	59
14008072408	Neolithic age	The New Stone Age that was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture	60
14008072409	Climate	The pattern of temperature and precipitation over a period of time	61
14008072410	New testament	The portion of the Christian Bible that contains the Gospels that relate the account of the life of Jesus; letters from the followers of Jesus to the early Christian churches and the Book of Revelation, a prophetic text	62
14008072411	Dharma	the position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by one's birth	63
14008072412	Pastoralism	The practice of herding	64
14008072413	Messiah	The Roman Peace; the period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E.	65
14008072414	Untouchables	The social division in Hindu society that fell in rank below the caste system; it was occupied by those who carried out undesirable occupations such as undertaking, butchering, and waste collection.	66
14008072415	Agricultural Revolution	The transition from foraging to the cultivation of food occurring about 8000 - 2000 BC; also known as the Neolithic revolution	67
14008072416	Cultural diffusion	the transmission of ideas and products from one culture to another	68