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Unit 1 Vocab APworld
Unit 1 Vocab AP World
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Belief System | A set of principles or tenets which together formthe basis of a religion, philosophy, or moral code |
| Buddhism | A spiritual philosophy and religion, founded in the 6th century BCE by Siddhartha Gautama and widespread in Asia, that teaches release from self and from one's earthly desires |
| Bureaucracy | An organized group of hired officals, especially governmental |
| Caliphate | State ruled by a caliph, a Muslim ruler who is both the ruler of a state and the leader of an entire ummah (an Arabic word refering to the entire muslim community) |
| Causation | The act or process of causing (to make happen; creating or influencing |
| Christianity | A monotheistic religion on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ |
| Claim Testers | Strategies to decide whether a story or concept should or should not be trusted |
| Confucianism | The ethical theachings of Confucius, which emphasize reverence for ancestors, devotion to family and friends, cultivation abd discipline of the mind, and social responsibility |
| Consequence | That which follows; result |
| Contextualize | to put into context, or provide a context for; context = the set of circumanstances or events in which a particular event occurs; situation |
| Continuity | Things that are constant over time; something is an uninterupted state |
| Dynasty | A succession, lasting several generations, of rulers from the same family or group |
| Evidence | Knowledge on which to base belief; that which constituts proof of something |
| Feudalism | A system of economic and political organization, as in Eroupe in the medieval period, in which landholding lords granted lands to vassals in return for service and homage |
| Hajj | The pilgramage to Mecca that every Muslim is expected to make at least once during the Dhul al-Hijjah |
| Hierarchy | A body of persons or entities graded according to rank or level of authority |
| Innovation | The act of proposing or implementing a new method, approach, idea, or the like |
| Islam | A monotheistic religion based on the teaching of the prophet Muhammad as set forth in the Qur'an |
| Judaism | A monotheistic religion based on the spiritual and ethical principles in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and the Talmud |
| Matrilineal | Pertaining to tracing one's heritage and ancestry through the mother's family |
| Narrative | An account, description, or story, or the oral or written work containing such material |
| Perspective | A visual or mental view, as of a scence or a subject and the interrelationships of its parts or facts |
| Polytheistic | The belief in more than one god |
| Ritual | An established and prescribed procedure for a ceremony, espically a religious one |
| Scale | The degree, extent, or level of something |
| Serf | Agricultural laborers who cannot leave their land and are heavily taxed by a lord or king |
| Sourcing | The act of understanding who wrote a document, where they wrote it, and why they wrote it, for the purposes of analysis or interpertation |
| State | The population of a specific area unified under a single government |
| Tribute | Payment given by a subordinate person or power to dominant one, or an obligation to do so |
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