6938459303 | Province | An administrative division or unit of a country; or a country or region brought under the control of the ancient Roman government. | 0 | |
6938483831 | Provincial | Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded; "Provincial" also refers to the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order. | 1 | |
6938501906 | Push-pull factors | Push and pull factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them. The push factor involves a force which acts to drive people away from a place, such as a failing economy in one's own country. A pull factor, such as a job opportunity, is what draws them to a new location. | 2 | |
6938553027 | Quagmire | An area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields or gives away under the foot. It's so hard to climb out of a quagmire, the word came to also mean any difficult or sticky situation you find yourself in. | 3 | |
6938568752 | Qualify | Meeting and satisfying the requirements/relevant conditions needed to become officially eligible as a practitioner of a particular profession or activity. | 4 | |
6938582518 | Quandary | A state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation/dilemma. | 5 | |
6938596907 | Quantify | To measure or judge the amount of something, usually put into numbers as well. | 6 | |
6938624438 | Quantity | the amount or number of a material or immaterial thing, especially something that can be measured. | 7 | |
6938633812 | Quest | A long search or journey to obtain something that is difficult to find. | 8 | |
6950165568 | Racism/racial | Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. / Of or relating to the social construct of race. | 9 | |
6950170184 | Radical | Extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms; also referred to as a person who advocates fundamental political, economic, and social reforms by direct and often relentless methods. | 10 | |
6950182989 | Rare/Rarity | Not found or occurring in large numbers; uncommon. / A thing that is rare, especially one having particular value as a result of this. | 11 | |
6950190248 | Rational/Rationale | Having or exercising reason, sound judgment, or good sense. / The fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something. | 12 | |
6950197010 | Raw material | Basic substance in its natural or semi-processed state, usually used as input in a production process that results in a finished good. | 13 | |
6950210359 | Rebel/Rebellion | A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler. / An open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler. | 14 | |
6950216981 | Reform | An amend in something (typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it. | 15 | |
6950229770 | Regime | A regime is the ruling government of a country. Usually, the amount of restrictions and freedom that citizens of a country have change from regime to regime. | 16 | |
6950240907 | Register | An official list or directory of public records. / To put information, especially your name, into an official list or record. | 17 | |
6950274073 | Regulation | A law or order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct. | 18 | |
6950303028 | Reincarnation | The belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form. | 19 | |
6950304753 | Republic | A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. | 20 | |
6950305277 | Revenue | The income of a government from taxation, excise duties, customs, or other sources, appropriated to the payment of the public expenses. / The return or yield from any kind of property, patent, or service. | 21 | |
6950308319 | Revolt | To break away from or rise against constituted authority, usually by open rebellion. | 22 | |
6950321190 | Revolution | An overthrow and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. | 23 | |
6950322776 | (The) Right | A moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way. | 24 | |
6953019553 | Rimland | A peripheral (Peripheral = situated on the edge of something) region, especially one with political or strategic significance. | 25 | |
6950324024 | Rural | Of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people. | 26 | |
6950326727 | Sacred | Connected with God (or a deity), or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration. | 27 | |
6950332314 | Sarcasm | Remarks that mean the opposite of what they say, made to criticize someone or something in a way that is amusing to others but annoying to the person criticized. | 28 | |
6950355882 | Scholar | A specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities; a distinguished academic. | 29 | |
6950376632 | Secede/Secession | To withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. | 30 | |
6953031773 | Secondary | Coming after, less important than, or resulting from someone or something else that is primary. | 31 | |
6953033605 | Sect | A group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong. | 32 | |
6953036810 | Secular | Not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order. | 33 | |
6953042620 | Sedentary | Tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive. Also refers to those inhabiting the same locality throughout life; not migratory or nomadic. | 34 | |
6953050902 | Segregation | The separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means. | 35 | |
6953068804 | Serf/Serfdom | An agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate. Term originated in the late 15th century, during the Middle Ages. / Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. | 36 | |
6953084030 | Shaman | A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing. | 37 | |
6953099684 | Shamanism | A religion practiced by indigenous peoples of far northern Europe and Siberia that is characterized by belief in an unseen world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits responsive only to the shamans. | 38 | |
6953113736 | Skepticism/Skeptical | A sceptical attitude; doubt as to the truth of something. / Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations. | 39 | |
6953122781 | Slavery | The state of being legally owned by another person and forced to work for that person without pay. | 40 | |
6953129734 | Social Darwinism | The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. | 41 | |
6953133729 | Socialism | A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. | 42 | |
6953134965 | Socio-economic | Of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and economic factors. | 43 | |
6953149874 | Sovereignty/Sovereign | The quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority. / A group or body of persons or a state having supreme power and authority. Usually describing a monarch. | 44 | |
6953161585 | State | The condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes. Also used to describe a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. | 45 |
AP WORLD HISTORY - History Jargon #6 Flashcards
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