AP vocab Flashcards

14690981737	Anarchism	A doctrine or belief that all governments are oppressive and should be restrained or abolished, allowing people to work freely together	0
14690981738	Animisn	the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.	1
14690981739	Aristocracy	A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility	2
14690981740	autonomy	self-government	3
14690981741	Bias	Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group	4
14690981742	Bureaucracy	a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.	5
14690981743	Centralization	the concentration of control of an activity or organization under a single authority.	6
14690981744	circa	approximately	7
14690981745	City state	In the ancient world, an independent or autonomous area, including a city, with one shared government	8
14690981746	coercive	Forced service unwillingly	9
14690981747	commerce	Exchange of goods through buying or selling, particularly on a large scale	10
14690981748	Continuity	Consistent existence or operation of something of something over a period of time	11
14690981749	corroborate	Confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding	12
14690981750	Demography	the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.	13
14690981751	Diasporic communities	Sub-populations formed by groups of people with similar physical or social qualities that separate themselves from the rest of society	14
14690981752	Diffusion	the spreading of something more widely	15
14690981753	Dynasty	a line of hereditary rulers of a country.	16
14690981754	egalitarian	Believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal opportunities	17
14690981755	Empire	A political unit comprising of several countries under the rule of one sovereign government or an emperor.	18
14690981756	epidemic	A widespread outbreak of a particular disease	19
14690981757	hierarchy	Social or political system based on the order of rank of people according to importance	20
14690981758	Indentured Servitude	Form of service primarily used during the early colonial period in the americas	21
14690981759	indigenous	originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.	22
14690981760	infrastructure	the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.	23
14690981761	Legitimacy	Belief that a rule, institution, or leader has the right to govern	24
14690981762	Migrants	People or animals who go through a stage of migration	25
14690981763	Monarchy	A government ruled by a king or queen	26
14690981764	Monopoly	A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.	27
14690981765	Monotheism	the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.	28
14690981766	monsoon winds	Seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and Southern Asia, blowing from the northeast in winter	29
14690981767	nobility	A high-ranking social class	30
14690981768	nomad	a person who moves from place to place	31
14690981769	Pastoralism	Way of life in which people depend on the herding domesticated animals for their food	32
14690981770	Patriarchal	Gender system originating from many of the first civilizations in which women are subordinate to men in the family and in society generally	33
14690981771	peasant	a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation	34
14690981772	Polytheism	Belief in many gods	35
14690981773	primary source	Artifact, document, diary, manuscript, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study	36
14690981774	Propoganda	Information of a biased nature used to promote or publicize a particular cause or point of view	37
14690981775	Revolution	A sudden shift in authoritative power, often obtained through violence	38
14690981776	secondary source	Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event	39
14690981777	Secular	Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters	40
14690981778	Serf	The state of serving as a serf on an estate, a system in which labor is exchanged for an allotment of land	41
14690981779	Shamanism	In many early societies, a person believed to have habilita to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs	42
14690981780	Slaves	Person legally owned by another person, thus making them property with no individual rights	43
14690981781	State	A compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force whiting a certain geographical territory	44
14690981782	Syncretic beliefs	A combination of multiple religious beliefs such as Gnosticism, Christianity, and Greek philosophy.	45
14690981783	Theocracy	A system of government in which priests rule in the name of god or a god	46
14690981784	Totalitarianism	A system of government in which priests rule in the name of god or a god	47
14690981785	Urbanization	The physical growth of a rural area into a city	48