Pre AP World History Vocabulary Unit 2 Flashcards

8256886513	Diaspora	The dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel	0
8256899887	Reincarnation	The rebirth of a soul in a new body	1
8257017625	Caste System/varnas	A class structure that is determined by birth	2
8257017626	Monotheism	belief in only 1 god	3
8257020498	polytheism	belief in more than 1 god	4
8257020499	missionary	a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country	5
8257020500	filial piety	a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors	6
8257020501	monasticism	a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work	7
8257028147	shamanism	a religion practiced by indigenous peoples of far northern Europe and Siberia that is characterized by belief in an unseen world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits responsive only to the shamans	8
8257028148	animism	the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe	9
8257028149	ancestor veneration	the custom of venerating deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living	10
8257028150	shi huangdi	the first emperor of a unified China	11
8257028151	zhou dynasty	a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty	12
8257028152	qin dynasty	the first dynasty of Imperial China, lasting from 221 to 206 BC	13
8257032443	han dynasty	the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period	14
8257044036	great wall	a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe	15
8257044037	muarya	a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated ancient India between 322 BCE and 187 BCE	16
8257044038	gupta	an ancient Indian empire founded by Sri Gupta. The empire existed at its zenith from approximately 315 to 551 CE and covered much of the Indian subcontinent	17
8257044039	ashoka	an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE	18
8257047051	rome	Rome is the capital of Italy and a special comune Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region	19
8257047052	currency	refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins	20
8257047053	bureaucracy	a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives	21
8257047054	forification	a defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a place against attack	22
8257049752	hellenism	the national character or culture of Greece, especially ancient Greece	23
8257049753	corvee labor	unpaid labor (as toward constructing roads) due from a feudal vassal to his lord.	24
8257049754	chattel slavery	the kind of slavery that existed in the United States before the Civil War	25
8257049755	tribute	an act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration.	26
8257049756	silk road	an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea.	27
8257049757	trans-saharan trade route	requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast	28
8257049758	Alexander the Great	A ruler of Greece in the fourth century b.c.	29
8257057886	Julius Caeser	c100-44 b.c, Roman general, statesman, and historian.	30
8257057887	oligarchy	a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.	31
8257057888	democracy	a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.	32
8257057889	syncretism	the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.	33
8257057890	sanskrit	an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived.	34
8257057891	stupa	a dome-shaped structure erected as a Buddhist shrine.	35
8257057892	buddha	a person who has attained full prajna, or enlightenment; Arhat.	36
8257060178	confucius	a person who believes in the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius.	37
8257060179	jainism	a nontheistic religion founded in India in the 6th century BC by the Jina Vardhamana Mahavira as a reaction against the teachings of orthodox Brahmanism	38
8257060180	Christianity	the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.	39
8257060182	Cyrus the Great	the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.	40
8257060183	Royal road	a way of attaining or reaching something without trouble.	41
8257060184	Daoism	philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events	42
8257062897	legalism	excessive adherence to law or formula.	43
8257062898	satraps	a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.	44
8257062899	shamans	a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America.	45
8257073308	Yellow Turban Revolution	a peasant revolt in China against the Eastern Han dynasty.	46
8257062900	white huns	a race of largely nomadic peoples who were a part of the Hunnic tribes of Central Asia.	47