AP World History : Ancient World Exam Latest -

AP World History : Ancient World Exam (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.

• Agrarian: pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform, agrarian society

3. Bands/ Clans: extended family groups that generally lived together

4. Barbarian: without civilizing influences

5. 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

10. Economy: system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to

meet people's needs

11. Egalitarian: a person who believes in the equality of all people

12. Emperor: supreme ruler of an empire

• Empire: many territories, countries, or peoples controlled by one government

(also just any territory ruled by an emperor)

14. Feudalism: a political system and a social system where by a powerful lord

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15. Foraging: the process of scavenging for food

• Hierarchy: a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

17. Hierarchical: Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy

18. Hunter-Gatherer: A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence

method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without significant recourse to the domestication of either plants nor animals

• 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

21. 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)

25. 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

27. Polytheism: belief in multiple Gods

• River Valley: the fertile land surrounding a river- the first civilizations arose near

them

29. Sedentary: remaining in one place

• Settlement: the act of colonizing or a small group of people in a sedentary
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