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ap world history
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agrarian | relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property: |
| communal | used or owned by all members of a group or community |
| filial | relating or appropriate to a child's relationship with, or feelings toward, his or her parents |
| monarchy | a political system in which a state is ruled by a monarch |
| pastoral | relating to the countryside or to rural life "pastoral living" |
| subsistence | the condition of being or managing to stay alive |
| archeology | the study of human activity in the past |
| edifice | a building, especially a large or impressive one |
| incarnation | somebody or something personifying |
| nomadic | community of people who move from one place to another |
| patriarch | was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family |
| venerate | respect somebody |
| city-state | is an independent or autonomous entity |
| egalitarian | is a trend of thought that favors equality |
| indigenous | originating in and characteristic of a particular region |
| oracle | was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel |
| sedentary | characterized by or requiring a sitting posture |
| civilization | group of people in a culture |
| era | long period of time |
| metallurgy | study of metals |
| pagan | religious traditions which are polytheistic or indigenous. |
| stratification | is the building up of layers |