AP World History Flashcards: Unit 1 (8,000 BCE-600CE)

New Stone Age btw. 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished

Part of religious belief that you will live again in a life after this one on Earth

A self-governing state, community, or group

Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials

Social class structure in India, with "Untouchables", and so forth

A person belonging to a certain nation

The switching from one way of thinking or doing things (especially beliefs) to another

A god or goddess

Started around 8000 B.C.E., dogs, horses, wheat, barley, etc.

A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status.

A nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader or emperor

The social and economic arrangement under which people are paid for protection and farming privleges by giving goods and services to an overlord

Pertaining to a son or daughter

Ancient ways of gathering food, before agriculture and domestication

Beliefs (esp. religious)

Of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor;of superior or unusual size or excellence; sovereign b: regal, imperious

Group of people related by blood or marriage

People who go to places and enlighten those to their beliefs

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)

Believing in only one god

Family (however distant) related to the ruling person at that time (usually very wealthy and with titles of their own)

Lifestyle before agriculture and domestication, always moving with food source's pattern

A woman who has taken vows (Christianity), a woman who devotes herself to religious life

A person who believes in many gods

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

relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

Male ruled/dominated

A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place

Believing in many gods

A man that is the "leader" of a specific church, power on local level

When a man becomes a priest and joins the ranks of priests

Religious belief that one comes back from death as another person or thing

Nomads spread world's knowledge around the globe, spread religious beliefs and ideology too

Religious texts vital to that specific religion

A people not migratory; settled

The use of human labor without pay, forced upon them

The use of class systems, pyramid-shaped in visual aids

The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata

Government income due to taxation.

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

Goods traded between countries, usually constantly desired

Pertaining to, or designating a city or town