AP World History Exam - Unit 2 Latest -

AP World History Exam - Unit 2 ( Latest -

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• Agriculture

Answer: 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

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

• Bands/ Clans

Answer: extended family groups that generally lived together

• Civilization

Answer: a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

• City-States

Answer: different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by different rulers (e.g. Greece)

• Domestication

Answer: process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans

• Economy

Answer: system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to meet

people's needs

• Egalitarian

Answer: a person who believes in the equality of all people

• Foraging

Answer: the process of scavenging for food

• Hierarchy

Answer: a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

• Hunter-Gatherer

Answer: A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method

involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, foraging 1 / 3

and hunting without significant recourse to the domestication of either plants nor animals

• Irrigation

Answer: supplying dry land with water by means of ditches, sprinklers, etc.

• Monarchy

Answer: a government in which power is in the hands of a single person who usually inherits their power

• Monotheism

Answer: belief in a single God

• Neolithic

Answer: The New Stone Age from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s)

• Nomadic

Answer: (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently

• Pastoral

Answer: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle (e.g.pastoral peoples)

• Paleolithic

Answer: 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

Answer: the rational investigation of questions about existence, knowledge, and

ethics

• Polytheism

Answer: belief in multiple Gods

• River Valley

Answer: the fertile land surrounding a river- the first civilizations arose near them

• Sedentary

Answer: remaining in one place 2 / 3

• Settlement

Answer: the act of colonizing or a small group of people in a sedentary position

• Subsistence

Answer: the necessities of life, the resources of survival

• Surplus

Answer: a quantity much larger than is needed

• Sustenance

Answer: the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsis tence

• Theocracy

Answer: government run by religious leaders

• Traditional

Answer: consisting of or derived from tradition; customary practices

• Urbanization

Answer: the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban

• Bronze Age

Answer: a period between the Stone and Iron ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons

• Code of Hammurabi

Answer: the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety

32. Cuneiform: One of the first written languages known

Answer: A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or

syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.

• Democracy

Answer: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• Iron Age

Answer: the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron

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