AP World History Flashcards: Unit 1 (8,000 BCE-600CE)
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Neolithic
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New Stone Age btw. 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished
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Afterlife
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Part of religious belief that you will live again in a life after this one on Earth
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Autonomy
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A self-governing state, community, or group
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Bureaucracy; civil service
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Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials
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Caste system
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Social class structure in India, with \"Untouchables\", and so forth
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Citizen
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A person belonging to a certain nation
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Conversion
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The switching from one way of thinking or doing things (especially beliefs) to another
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Deity
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A god or goddess
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Domesticated Plants and Animals
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Started around 8000 B.C.E., dogs, horses, wheat, barley, etc.
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Elites
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A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status.
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Empire
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A nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader or emperor
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Feudal
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The social and economic arrangement under which people are paid for protection and farming privleges by giving goods and services to an overlord
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Filial
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Pertaining to a son or daughter
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Hunting-Gathering
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Ancient ways of gathering food, before agriculture and domestication
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Ideology
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Beliefs (esp. religious)
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Imperial
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Of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor;of superior or unusual size or excellence; sovereign b: regal, imperious
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Kinship Groups
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Group of people related by blood or marriage
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Missionaries
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People who go to places and enlighten those to their beliefs
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Monasticism
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Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity, obedience, and poverty. (Primary Centres of Learning in Medieval Europe)
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Monotheism
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Believing in only one god
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Nobility
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Family (however distant) related to the ruling person at that time (usually very wealthy and with titles of their own)
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Nomadic
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Lifestyle before agriculture and domestication, always moving with food source's pattern
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Nun
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A woman who has taken vows (Christianity), a woman who devotes herself to religious life
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Pagan
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A person who believes in many gods
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Pantheon
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One of the largest domed Roman buildings that was used as a temple for Roman gods and goddesses., (antiquity) a temple to all the gods; a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes
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Pastoral
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relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
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Patriarchy
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Male ruled/dominated
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Pilgrims
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A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place
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Polytheism
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Believing in many gods
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Priest
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A man that is the \"leader\" of a specific church, power on local level
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Priesthood
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When a man becomes a priest and joins the ranks of priests
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Reincarnation
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Religious belief that one comes back from death as another person or thing
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Role of Nomads in Trade
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Nomads spread world's knowledge around the globe, spread religious beliefs and ideology too
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Sacred Texts
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Religious texts vital to that specific religion
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Sedentary
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A people not migratory; settled
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Slavery
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The use of human labor without pay, forced upon them
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Social Hierarchy; social
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The use of class systems, pyramid-shaped in visual aids
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Stratification; social inequality
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The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
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Tax revenue
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Government income due to taxation.
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The State
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A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority
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Trade Goods
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Goods traded between countries, usually constantly desired
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Urban
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Pertaining to, or designating a city or town
