AP World History : Ancient World Exam 2 (Latest 2023 - 2024)
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- Agriculture: The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through
the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.
2. Agrarian Society: a society whose economy is based on producing and main-
taining crops
3. Barbarian: something uncivilized
4. Bureaucracy: system of managing government through departments run by
appointed officials (not elected)
- Civilization: a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with
- City-States: different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by
- Classical: of or characteristic of a form or system felt to be of first significance
- Domestication: process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to
complex legal and political and religious organizations)
different rulers (e.g. Greece)
before modern times
humans
9. Economy: system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to
meet people's needs
10. Egalitarian: a person who believes in the equality of all people
11. Emperor: supreme ruler of an empire
- Empire: many territories, countries, or peoples controlled by one government
(also just any territory ruled by an emperor)
13. Feudalism: a political system and a social system where by a powerful lord
would offer "protection" in return for "service"
- Foraging: the process of scavenging for food 1 / 2
- Hierarchy: a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
16. Hierarchical: Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy
17. Hunter-Gatherer: A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary sources of
food and shelter involves finding edible plants and animals from the wild/ foraging and hunting
- Irrigation: supplying dry land with water by means of ditches, sprinklers, etc.
- Monarchy: a government in which power is in the hands of a single person who
usually inherits their power (oftentimes a King)
20. Monotheism: belief in a single God
- Neolithic: The New Stone Age from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE: The period of the
- Nomadic: (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements fre-
- Pastoral: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s)
quently
(e.g. pastoral peoples)
24. Paleolithic: The Old Stone Age from circa 750,00 to 500,000 years BCE to
8,500 years BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of
humans and the development of minor tools
- Philosophy: the rational investigation of questions about existence, knowledge,
and ethics
26. Polytheism: belief in multiple Gods
- River Valley: the fertile land surrounding a river- the first civilizations arose near
them
28. Sedentary: remaining in one place
29. Settlement: the act of colonizing or a small group of people in a sedentary
position
- Subsistence: the necessities of life, the resources of survival
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