4767362507 | B.C.E. | Before Common Era | 0 | |
4767362508 | C.E. | Common Era | 1 | |
4767362509 | abdicate | to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like,especially in a formal manner | 2 | |
4767362510 | accession | the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president. | 3 | |
4767362511 | aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. | 4 | |
4767362512 | agrarian | relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property | 5 | |
4767362513 | amenities | a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place. | 6 | |
4767362514 | anarchy | freedom from external or foreign rule; independence. | 7 | |
4767362515 | animism | the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena | 8 | |
4767362516 | antiquity | the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages; great age | 9 | |
4767362517 | appeasement | the action or process of appeasing. | 10 | |
4767362518 | aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices; a form of government in which power is held by the nobility. | 11 | |
4767362519 | asceticism | severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. | 12 | |
4767362520 | assimilate | cause (something) to resemble; liken | 13 | |
4767362521 | authoritarian | favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom: authoritarian principles; authoritarian attitudes. | 14 | |
4767362522 | autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. | 15 | |
4767362523 | barbarism | absence of culture and civilization. | 16 | |
4767362524 | bureaucracy/bureaucrats | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 17 | |
4767362525 | city-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 18 | |
4767362526 | civic | of or relating to a city or town, especially its administration | 19 | |
4767362527 | classical | of or relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture. | 20 | |
4767362528 | colonial | of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colonies. | 21 | |
4767362529 | commerce | the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale. | 22 | |
4767362530 | communal | shared by all members of a community; for common use. | 23 | |
4767362531 | concubine | a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives. | 24 | |
4767362532 | conscription | compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. | 25 | |
4767362533 | cosmopolitan | familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures | 26 | |
4767362534 | coup | a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. | 27 | |
4767362535 | demography/demographic | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations. | 28 | |
4767362536 | despot | a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way. | 29 | |
4767362537 | diaspora | a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale, can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland. | 30 | |
4767362538 | dissent | hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed. | 31 | |
4767362539 | dissident | a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state | 32 | |
4767362540 | domestic/domesticate | existing or occurring inside a particular country; tame and keep it as a pet or for farm produce; cultivate for food. | 33 | |
4767362541 | dynasty / dynastic | a line of hereditary rulers of a country. | 34 | |
4767362542 | edict | an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority | 35 | |
4767362543 | egalitarian | of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. | 36 | |
4767362544 | elite | a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities. | 37 | |
4767362545 | emigrate | to leave one's country to live in another | 38 | |
4767362546 | epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. | 39 | |
4767362547 | ethnocentric | evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture. | 40 | |
4767362548 | feudalism | a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return | 41 | |
4767362549 | genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 42 | |
4767362550 | gentry | people of good social position, specifically the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth. | 43 | |
4767362551 | guild | a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power | 44 | |
4767362552 | hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 45 | |
4767362553 | hominids | a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors. | 46 | |
4767362554 | homogenous | of the same kind; alike. | 47 | |
4767362555 | ideology | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy | 48 | |
4767362556 | imperial/imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. | 49 | |
4767362557 | indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native | 50 | |
4767362558 | infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | 51 | |
4767362559 | lineage | descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree. | 52 | |
4767362560 | linguistic | of or relating to language | 53 | |
4767362561 | manifest | clear or obvious to the eye or mind. | 54 | |
4767362562 | maritime | connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity. | 55 | |
4767362563 | martial | of or appropriate to war; warlike. | 56 | |
4767362564 | matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 57 | |
4767362565 | mercenary | (of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics. | 58 | |
4767362566 | monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head. | 59 | |
4767362567 | monopoly/monopolize | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. | 60 | |
4767362568 | monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 61 | |
4767362569 | Mystical | of or relating to mystics or religious mysticism. | 62 | |
4767362570 | nation-state | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. | 63 | |
4767362571 | neo | a new or revived form of. | 64 | |
4767362572 | Neolithic | of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. | 65 | |
4767362573 | nomadic | people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory | 66 | |
4767362574 | oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. | 67 | |
4767362575 | pantheon | (especially in ancient Greece and Rome) a temple dedicated to all the gods. | 68 | |
4767362576 | papal/papacy | of or relating to a pope or to the papacy. | 69 | |
4767362577 | parliament/parliamentary system | a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from legislature (parliament) and is also held accountable to that legislature. | 70 | |
4767362578 | pastoral | used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle. | 71 | |
4767362579 | patriarchal | the male head of a family or tribe | 72 | |
4767362580 | patrilineal | of, relating to, or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line. | 73 | |
4767362581 | patronage | the support given by a patron. | 74 | |
4767362582 | peasant | a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation | 75 | |
4767362583 | pharaoh | a ruler in ancient Egypt. | 76 | |
4767362584 | piety/pious | the quality of being religious or reverent. | 77 | |
4767362585 | polity | something that has a government | 78 | |
4767362586 | polygamy | the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time | 79 | |
4767362587 | polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god. | 80 | |
4767362588 | proselytize | convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another. | 81 | |
4767362589 | provincial | of or concerning a province of a country or empire. | 82 | |
4767362590 | regent | a person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor or is absent or incapacitated. | 83 | |
4767362591 | republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. | 84 | |
4767362592 | rhetoric/rhetorical | expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress. | 85 | |
4767362593 | sedentary | (of work or a way of life) characterized by much sitting and little physical exercise | 86 | |
4767362594 | serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate | 87 | |
4767362595 | Sharia | _____________ is the body of Islamic law, it is the legal framework within which the public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islam. | 88 | |
4767362596 | Sinification | is a process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society. | 89 | |
4767362597 | state | a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. | 90 | |
4767362598 | steppe | a large, flat area of land with grass and very few trees especially in eastern Europe and Asia | 91 | |
4767362599 | stratification | a system or formation of layers, classes, categories | 92 | |
4767362600 | Sub-Saharan | from or forming part of the African regions south of the Sahara desert. | 93 | |
4767362601 | subordinate | a person under the authority or control of another within an organization. | 94 | |
4767362602 | succession | the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc | 95 | |
4767362603 | syncretism | the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought; the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language. | 96 | |
4767362604 | textiles | a type of cloth or woven fabric | 97 | |
4767362605 | theocracy | a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities; a system of government by priests claiming a divine commission | 98 | |
4767362606 | theology | the study of the nature of God and religious belief. | 99 | |
4767362607 | totalitarian | of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. | 100 | |
4767362608 | tributary state | a state that is subordinate to a more powerful neighbour | 101 | |
4767362609 | tyranny | a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler | 102 | |
4767362610 | urban/urbanize | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town;make or become urban in character | 103 | |
4767362611 | usurp | take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force. | 104 | |
4767362612 | vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | 105 |
AP World History - Introductory Vocabulary Flashcards
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