Unit One - Ap World History Vocab

Vocab for Unit One

Agriculture

The science or practice of 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

cause (a price) to rise to or 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 the government.

Capacity

the maximum amount that something can contain or produce

Causation

the action 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 for an event, statement, or idea, and 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 service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

Fragmented

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

Hemisphere

One half of a sphere, in this case the globe

Imperial

relating to an empire

Indigenous

originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.

Interregional

relating to or occurring between different regions.

Manor

a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate

Manufacturing

The making of articles for sale on a large scale, typically using machinery or manual labor

Maritime

Connected to the sea; especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity.

Modify

make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme.

Monsoon

a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation

Pathogen

a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.

Peasant

a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).

Piety

a belief or point of view that is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence.

Scope

the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant.

Serfdom

the state of being a serf or feudal laborer tied to the land.

State

a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory

Subsequent

coming after something in time; following

Tapestry

a piece of thick textile fabric with pictures or designs formed by weaving colored weft threads or by embroidering on canvas, used as a wall hanging or furniture covering

Textile

a type of cloth or woven fabric