AP World History : Ancient World Exam 2 Latest -

AP World History : Ancient World Exam 2 (Latest -

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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

complex legal and political and religious organizations)

• City-States: different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by

different rulers (e.g. Greece)

• Classical: of or characteristic of a form or system felt to be of first significance

before modern times

• Domestication: process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to

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

Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s)

• Nomadic: (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements fre-

quently

• Pastoral: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

(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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