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| 24434068 | Absolutism | A form of government where the sovereign power or ultimate authority rested in the hands of a monarch who claimed to rule by divine right and was therefore responsible only to God. | 0 | |
| 24434069 | Abstract Expressionism | A post-WW2 artistic movement that broke with all conventions of form and structure in favor of total abstraction. | 1 | |
| 24434070 | Agricultural (Neolithic) Revolution | The shift from hunting animals and gathering plants for sustenance to producing food by systematic agriculture that occurred gradually between 10,000 and 4000 BCE. | 2 | |
| 24434071 | Amerindian | Earliest inhabitants of North and South America. Original theories suggested migration from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge; more recent evidence suggests migration also occurred by sea from regions of the South Pacific to South America. | 3 | |
| 24435569 | Anarchism | A political theory that holds that all governments and existing social institutions are unnecessary and advocates a society based on voluntary cooperation. | 4 | |
| 24435570 | ANC | The African National Congress. Founded in 1912, it was the beginning of political activity by South African blacks. Banned by politically dominant European whites in 1960, it was not officially "unbanned" until 1990. It is now the official majority party of the South African government. | 5 | |
| 24435571 | Analects | The body of writing containing conversations between Confucius and his disciples that preserves his worldly wisdom and pragmatic philosophies. | 6 | |
| 24435572 | Anti-Semitism | Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews. | 7 | |
| 24435573 | Apartheid | The system of racial segregation practiced in the Republic of South Africa until the 1990s, which involved political, legal, economic discrimination against nonwhites. | 8 | |
| 24435574 | Appeasement | The policy, followed by the European nations in the 1930s, of accepting Hitler's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia in the believe that meeting his demands would assure peace and stability. | 9 | |
| 24435575 | Aramaic | A Christian heresy that taught that Jesus was inferior to God. Though condemned by the Council of Nicaea in 325, Arianism was adopted by many of many of the Germanic peoples who entered the Roman Empire over the next centuries. | 10 | |
| 24435576 | Aristocracy | A class of hereditary nobility in medieval Europe; a warrior class who shared a distinctive lifestyle based on the institution of knighthood, although there were social divisions within the group based on extremes of wealth. | 11 | |
| 24438097 | Arthasastra | An early Indian political treatise that sets fourth many fundamental aspects of the relationship of rulers and their subjects. It has been compared to Machiavelli's well-known book, The Prince, and has provided principles upon which many aspects of social organization have developed in the region. | 12 | |
| 24438098 | Aryans | Indo-European-speaking nomads who entered India from the Central Asian steppes between 1500 and 1000 BCE and greatly affected Indian society, notably by establishing the castle system. The term was later adopted by German Nazis to describe their racial ideal. | 13 | |
| 24438099 | Asceticism | A lifestyle involving the denial of worldly pleasures. Predominately associated with Hindu, Buddhist, or Christian religions, adherents perceive their practices as a path to greater spirituality. | 14 | |
| 24438100 | ASEAN | The Association for the Southeast Asian Nations formed in 1967 to promote the prosperity and political stability of its member nations. Currently Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are members. Other countries in the region participate as "observer" members. | 15 | |
| 24438101 | Ausgleich | The "Compromise" of 1867 that created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. Austria and Hungary each had its own capital, constitution, and legislative assembly, but were united under one monarch. | 16 | |
| 24438102 | Authoritarian State | A state that has a dictatorial government and some other trappings of a totalitarian state, but does not demand that the masses be actively involved in the regime's goals as a totalitarian states do. | 17 | |
| 24438103 | Auxiliaries | Troops enlisted from the subject peoples of the Roman Empire to supplement the regular legions composed of Roman citizens. | 18 |
