AP WORLD HISTORY VOCAB

Flashcards of key terms and definitions from the lecture notes.

is relating to fields or farming.

Agrarian

is something made or altered by humans for a practical purpose (used for historical analysis, especially before writing).

Artifact

is a tendency toward prejudice or personal judgment.

Bias

is a body of non-elected government officials that make policy.

Bureaucracy

is an economic system characterized by private ownership, free-enterprise and lack of government in the economy.

Capitalism

is a readily salable crop produced primarily for market (ex: cotton, tobacco).

Cash Crop

is a grouping of 100 years.

Century

means World-Wide, Ocean-Going trade.

Circum - Maritime

is an autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory.

City - State

is a relatively high level of cultural and technological development (including writing).

Civilization

is control by one power or country over a dependent area and/or people.

Colonialism

is one that uses or utilizes economic goods and services.

Consumer

means uninterrupted and/or duration without essential change(s).

Continuity

is a sudden, decisive exercise of force in politics; violent overthrow or altering of existing government by a small group.

Coup d'etat

includes the characteristic features of a group or people: includes food, religion, etc.

Culture

is to be free from colonial status.

Decolonization

is the statistical study of human population especially related to size, distribution, density and vital statistics.

Demography

is a person granted absolute power and control.

Dictator

is the spread of culture elements form one area or group to another through contact.

Diffusion

means being composed of different elements (as people, races, cultures).

Diversity

means of or relating to one's own home county.

Domestic

is to adapt animals and/or plants for human use or benefits.

Domestication

is a succession of rulers from the same family.

Dynasty

means the best or highest of class, socially superior.

Elites

means liberation, freeing (as in slaves).

Emancipation

is a political unit having a great extent of territories or people under a single authority.

Empire

is one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business or enterprise.

Entrepreneur

is a process of continual change.

Evolution

are large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.

Ethnic Group

means having the attitude that one's own culture group is superior to others.

Ethno-Centrism

means increasing in size.

Expansion

is relating to the national government.

Federal

is the division of power between the national and the state government in the U.S.

Federalism

is a political system where underlords hold/use land in return for military protection and peasants work the land in return for protection.

Feudalism

is to wander in search of food.

Forage

is the deliberate, systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group.

Genocide

means of or relating to the entire world.

Global

is the development of an increasingly integrated world economy.

Globalization

is the place or environment where a plant, animal or person naturally lives.

Habitat

is the influence of authority exerted by a dominant group over others.

Hegemony

is a division into ranks, classes or orders according to political, social or economic standings.

Hierarchy

is a systematic body of concepts that are characteristic of an individual, group or culture.

Ideology

is the policy of one country extending power/authority over another through military, economic or political means.

Imperialism

means not subject to control by others, not affiliated with a controlling unit.

Independence

means produced, living or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment.

Indigenous

is manufacturing activity as a whole.

Industry

is a continuing rise in the general price level of goods/services.

Inflation

is a teaching technique that combines factual and explanatory information.

Interpretation

means of or relating to the sea.

Maritime

is an economy where most goods/services are produced and distributed through free markets.

Market Economy

is to move from one country, place of locality to another.

Migration

is a transformation from a rural, agrarian society to an urban, industrial one.

Modernization

means believing in only one god.

Monotheism

are legally constituted, not for profit businesses that are independent of governments (usually pursue social/political aims for charity).

Non-Governmental org.

is the movement of people from food gathering to food producing/herding.

Neolithic Revolution

is an interconnection group or association of persons or colleagues (i.e. trade).

Network

are people with no fixed residence - they move place to place, usually seasonally.

Nomads

means of or relating to herdsmen and raising livestock.

Pastoral

is a government system utilizing a legislative body.

Parliamentary System

is a social organization marked by the supremacy of the father or older male and dependency of women or others.

Patriarchy

is a mental view or prospect, a distinct impression.

Perspective

is belief in many gods.

Polytheism

are ideas, facts or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause.

Propaganda

are elements which draw people to a location.

Pull Factors

are elements which draw people to move away from a location.

Push Factors

is to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults/abuses.

Reform

is a government whose power resides in a body of citizens entitled to represent a group.

Republic

is a fundamental change in political organization; especially the overthrow of one government/ ruler for another.

Revolution

means of or relating to the country, country life, people or agriculture.

Rural

is not an eye witness account; a person who got information from a primary source.

Secondary Source

is the isolation of a race, class or ethnic group in a restricted area with discrimination barriers to social, political or economic participation.

Segregation

is an economic theory emphasizing collective or government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Socialism

applies to a direct or specific use - to concentrate one's efforts in one area.

Specialization

is a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory.

State

is the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied.

Surplus

is the combination of different forms of belief or practice.

Syncretism

is the practical application of knowledge, especially in a particular area.

Technology

is a group of persons having a common character, occupation or interests.

Tribe

is a payment by one ruler/nation to another in acknowledgement of submission, protection or respect/superiority.

Tribute

is acquiring the characteristics that constitute a city.

Urbanization