AP World History Vocab List 1

Agriculture

The science of practice or farming, including the cultivation of soil and rearing of animals.

Artisan

a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

Buoyed

caused (a price) to rise or to remain at a high level.

Bureaucracy

A system of government made up of multiple levels of state officials with decision making power spread throughout the levels of government.

Capacity

the maximum amount that something can contain or produce.

Causation

the acting of causing something or making it happen

Coerced

persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats

Commercial

concerned with or engaged in commerce (large scale buying/selling) and trade

Comparison

a consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two things or people

Context

the circumstances that form the setting of an event, statement, or idea, in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

Continuity

the unbroken and continuous existence of an idea, effect, or concept over extended periods of time.

Deference

humble submission and respect

Diasporic

a specific group of people being dispersed from their original homeland. This can occur by choice or by force.

Diffusion

the spreading of something more widely

Emerged

move out of or away from something and come into view.

feudalism

the dominant social system in Medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military services, and vassals were in turn tenets of the nobles, while the peasants (or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, nationally in exchange for military protection.

fragmented

existing or functioning as though broken into separate parts instead of a single whole.

Imperial

relating to an empire.

Indigenous

originating or occurring nationally in a particular place; native

Hemisphere

one half of a sphere, in this case the globe

Interregional

Manor

Manufacturing

Maritime

Modify

Monsoon

Pathogen

Peasant

Piety

Scope

Serfdom

State

Subsequent

Tapestry

Textile