AP World Vocab

Agriculture production

The cultivation of land, crops, and animals

Architecture

The art of science in building

Belief systems

Placing trust in basing behavior on established habits

Capitalism

Economic system characterized by private ownership and operated for profit

Commerce

The interchange of Commodities on a large scale

Demography

The study of population characteristics

Economic classes

Dividing society based on levels of personal wealth

Disease

Any abnormal condition affecting an organism/ Pathology

Ethnic Constructions

Judgments/characteristics of a person's social group based on preconceived ideas

Empire

Nations or people ruled by a government that is not their own

Family

A group of people sharing common ancestry, nuclear or extended

Forms of Governance

A particular way of controlling or exercising Authority

Gender roles And relations

Preconstructed characteristics of what a man or women can do, not based on biology

Global

Anything spanning across the whole earth

Ideologies

Systems forming a basis of beliefs (Usually about economics or politics)

Industrialization

An Economy for the purpose of manufacturing on large scale, using machine

Nationalism

Excessive patriotism

Political structures

Institutions of government, their relation to each other, and interactions

Kinship

Being abstractly related to others, their DNA, several extended families

The arts

Studies for knowledge, humanities, or visual and physical creativity

Pastoral production

The raising and breeding of livestock

Migration

A large group of movement of organisms to other areas

Religion

Organized system of beliefs that worship one or more deities

Patterns of settlement

The distribution and occupation of settling a particular region

Nation

People with similar living patterns ruled under one government

Philosophies

Thoughts of belief about the knowledge, ethics, and truth of our world

Racial constructions

Judgments/characteristics about race that are created in one's mind

Regional

Relating to a particular area with its own characteristics

Revolt

Any conflict with rebellion against an authority

Revolution

A forceful change against a government, or a new method

Science

Proven knowledge of principles and causes

Technology

Tools and skills people use

Trade

Buying, selling, or exchanging goods and services

Communism

An economic system in which the government owns/controls, all means of production/distribution, with no privately owned property

Labor systems

Assembly of productive activity for economic profit

Socialism

Economic system in which major industries/programs are controlled or regulated by the government

Trans-regional

Encompassing several areas with associated or similar “characteristics”

Social classes

Division of society based on hierarchical categories