AP World Vocabulary

What is the term for a social system in which males have most of the political and economic power?

• Aristocracy

• Social Mobility

• Patriarchy

• Cultural Syncretism

What is the ability to rise in social class called?

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• Coercive Labor System

• Codification

What term describes when a society is divided into various social classes, such as the caste system in India?

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• Coercive Labor System

• Secular

What term describes when different cultures combine to form something new, such as in Latin America where many people mix indigenous religious beliefs with Christianity?

• Secular

• Urban

• Cultural Syncretism

• Social Mobility

What term describes when someone holds a strong adherence to a religion's original teachings?

• Secular

• Fundamentalism

• Codification

• Urban

What term describes when something is officially written into law?

• Social Mobility

• Coercive Labor System

• Codification

• Cultural Syncretism

What is an empire?

• A state that encompasses a vast amount of territory and incorporates people with many different cultures, languages, and belief systems.

• A city that is an independent political entity with its own government.

• A government merged with a religious belief system.

• An economy that begins to produce commodities for trade.

What does the term 'Diaspora' refer to?

• A worker skilled in a craft

• A dispersion of people from their homeland

• The characteristics of a population

• Money paid by one country to another

What is the term for a system where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life?

• A) Democracy

• B) Totalitarianism

• C) Oligarchy

• D) Monarchy

What is the term for the economic policy of restraining trade between states through methods such as tariffs on imported goods?

• A) Free Trade

• B) Mercantilism

• C) Protectionism

• D) Capitalism