Basic AP Vocabulary
all the terms for our test this week!!!
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- kinship groups
- groups of people related by blood or marriage
- commerce
- social intercourse, interchanging of ideas, opinions, or sediments
- neolithic
- of or relating to the latest period of the Stone Age
- cultural diffusion
- the spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to others by contact
- steppe
- one of the vast usually level and treeless tracts in southeastern Europe or Asia
- feudal
- of, relating to, or having to do with the characteristics of a medieval fee
- empire
- a major political party unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority
- pastoral
- of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen; based on livestock raising
- ethnocentrism
- characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior
- nomadic
- roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or without a fixed pattern or movement
- historiography
- the study of different approaches to history
- indigenous
- having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region
- deity
- the rank or essential nature of a god
- Bantu
- a family of Niger-Congo Languages spoken in central and southern Africa
- alliance
- a bond or connection between families, states, parties, or individuals
- polytheism
- belief in or worship of more than one god
- pastoral nomads
- groups who are dependent on animal husbandry and subsist on animal products
- tenet
- a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
- interdependence
- a dynamic of being mutually responsible to and sharing a common set of principles with others
- syncretism
- the combination of different forms of belief or practice
- revolution
- the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed
- CE
- common era
- gender roles
- the behaviors and attitudes expected of male and female members of a society by that society
- fiscal policy
- government policy that attempts to influence the direction of the economy through changes in government taxes or through some spending
- public works projects
- a large usually government supported under taking works constructed for public use or enjoyment especially when financed and owned by the government
- shamanism
- a religion practiced by indigenous peoples of far northern Europe and Siberia that is characterized by belief in an unseen world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits responsive only to the Shamans
- matrilineal
- relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the maternal line
- civilization
- a relatively high level of cultural and technological development
- monotheism
- the belief that there is but one God
- coercive labor
- a restraint or domination by force over human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy
- facilitate
- the make easier
- agricultural staples
- the basic food crop of a society
- lineage
- descent in a line from a group of individuals tracing descent from a common ancestor
- edict
- a proclamation having the force of law
- patriarchal
- social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family
- sinification
- becoming Chinese
- exploit
- to make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage
- the state
- any system of government with effective control
- dynasty
- a succession of rulers of the same line of descent
- austerity
- enforced or extreme economy
- eumene
- refers to the known inhabited earth
- nation-building
- the process of constructing or structuring a nation using the power of the state
- elites
- the best of a class, the choice part
- spur
- to incite to action; accellerated growth or development
- periodization
- division into the completion of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action
- oligarchy
- a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes
- republic
- a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who is in modern times usually a president
- society
- an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of reltionships through interaction with one another
- sedentary
- not migratory
- cultural region
- a geographical unit based on characteristics and functions of culture
- incite
- to move to action
- matriarchal
- a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state
- pantheon
- the official list of deities or gods in a particular religion
- tribute systems
- allowed reciprocal trade under both imperial protection and imperial regulation and barred entry into this trade by those who did not participate
- tribe
- a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents, or adopted strangers
- scribes
- members of a learned class in ancient Israel studying the Scriptures and serving as copyists, editors, teachers, and jurists
- emancipation
- the act or process of freeing from restraint, control, or the power of another
- filial piety
- a love and respect for one's parents
- capitalism
- an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
- socialism
- any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
- exemplify
- to show or illistrate by example
- Bedouins
- nomadic arab of the Arabian, Syrian, or North African deserts
- civil service
- the administrative service of a government or international agency exclusive of the armed forces
- bureaucracy
- a body of nonelective government officials
- monarchy
- a government having a heredity chief of state with life tenure and powers varying from nominal to absolute
- kinship
- the state of belonging to a common ancestry
- BCE
- before common era
- domestication
- to adapt to life in intimate association with and to the advantage of humans
- foraging
- to wander in search of food
- asceticism
- practice of strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
- nationalism
- loyalty and devotion to a nation
- demography
- the statistical study of human populations especially with reference to size, density, distribution, and vital statistics
- stratification
- the act or process of dividing or arranging into classes, castes, or social artificially made layers
- semitic
- of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language
- absolutism
- a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers
- social hierarchy
- network of relationships establishing powers and duties of different members of society
- Aryan
- an Indo-European
- divination
- the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or supernatural powers
- theocracy
- government of a state by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divine