Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement World History Course
Terms
for Study Cards: Unit 1 – 8000 B.C.E. to 600
C.E
THIS YEAR WE ARE USING MOODLE FOR MANY OF THE STUDY GROUP PROJECTS. WHEN YOU GO TO THE MOODLE SITE, YOU WILL SEE A WHAP STUDY GROUP CLASS AS WELL AS THE WHAP CLASS. ONLY THE MEMBERS OF YOUR STUDY GROUP WILL HAVE ACCESS.
Instructions: Create a glossary entry for each of the terms below using the term as the concept. In the definition box, write a definition, the general significance for world history, a historical example from Unit 1, and explain the historical significance of that example.
- Abstinence; Celibacy Chastity
- Afterlife
- Autonomy
- Bureaucracy; civil service
- Caste System
- Citizen
- City State
- Conversion
- Corporal Punishment
- Deity
- Diaspora
- Dynasty
- Domesticated Plants and Animals
- Elites
- Empire
- Filial
- Hegemony
- Hunting-gathering (foraging)
- Ideology
- Imperial
- Kinship Groups
- Missionaries
- Monarchy
- Monotheism
- Neolithic
- Nobility
- Nomadic
- Nun
- Pagan
- A pantheon (not the Pantheon in Rome)
- Pastoral
- Patriarchy
- Polytheism
- Priest
- Reincarnation
- Republic
- Role of Nomads in trade
- Sacred Texts
- Scribe
- Sedentary
- Slavery
- Social Hierarchy; social stratification; social inequality
- Stupa
- Tax revenue
- The state
- Trade Goods
- Urban
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