7195074984 | Absolutism | Advocacy of a rule by absolute standards or principles. | 0 | |
7195080944 | Administer | To manage or supervise the execution, usse, or conduct of. | 1 | |
7195087527 | Afro- | African e.g Afro-American, Afro-Asiatic. | 2 | |
7195093985 | Agrarian | Of or relating to, or characteristic of farmers or their way of life. | 3 | |
7195097486 | Analyze | To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of. | 4 | |
7195099440 | Anti-Semitism | Hostility towards or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group. | 5 | |
7195105066 | Arable | Fit for or used for the growing of crops. | 6 | |
7195110266 | -archy | Suffix for rule or government (e.g. Monarchy) | 7 | |
7195115898 | Aristocracy | A class or group of people believed to be superior. Or that class governs the people believed to be inferior. | 8 | |
7195120364 | Authoritarian | Of, or relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority. | 9 | |
7195123655 | Balance of Power | An equilibrium of power sufficient to discourage or prevent one nation or party from imposing its will on or interfering with the interests of another. | 10 | |
7195131517 | Bureaucracy | Government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority. | 11 | |
7195136338 | Causation | The act or process of causing. | 12 | |
7195140860 | -centric | Suffix for being concentrated about, directed to, or located in or at a center. | 13 | |
7195142328 | City-state | An autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory. | 14 | |
7195148006 | Coerce | To compel to an act or choice. | 15 | |
7195148698 | Colony | A body of people living in a new territory, but retaining ties with the parent state. | 16 | |
7195154346 | Conscription | Compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service. | 17 | |
7195158895 | Context | The interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs. | 18 | |
7195163819 | Coup d'etat | A sudden decisive exercise of force in politics. The violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group. | 19 | |
7195168081 | Deforestation | The action or process of clearing of forests or the state of having been cleared of forests. | 20 | |
7195170003 | Deity | A god or goddess. | 21 | |
7195174814 | Democracy | A government in which the power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically free elections. | 22 | |
7195184814 | Demography | The statistical study of human populations especially with reference to size and density, distribution, and vital statistics. | 23 | |
7195187544 | Diffusion | The spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to others by contact. | 24 | |
7195190552 | Dynasty | A succession of rulers of the same line of descent. | 25 | |
7195194665 | Egalitarian | Asserting, promoting, or marked by a belief in human equality with respect to social, political, and economic affairs. | 26 | |
7195196921 | Empire | A major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority. | 27 | |
7195201250 | Globalization | The development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets. | 28 | |
7195205649 | Hierarchy | A ruling body of clergy organized into orders or ranks each subordinate to the one above it. | 29 | |
7195254899 | Indenture | A contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time. | 30 | |
7195263801 | Kinship | The quality or state of being kin. | 31 | |
7195264850 | Metallurgy | The science and technology of metals. | 32 | |
7195267408 | Migration | The act, process, or an instance of migrating. | 33 | |
7195272542 | Nation-state | A form of political organization under which a relatively homogeneous people inhabits a sovereign state. | 34 | |
7195277559 | Nomadic | Of, or relating to, or characteristic of a people who have no fixed residence, but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory. | 35 | |
7195288787 | Pastoral | A group of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen. | 36 | |
7195292402 | Patriarchy | Social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line. | 37 | |
7195299604 | Raw Material | Crude or processed material that can be converted by manufacture, processing, or combination into a new and useful product. | 38 | |
7195302810 | Sedentary | Non-Migratory not nomadic group of people. | 39 | |
7195310142 | Secular | Not ecclesiastical or clerical. | 40 | |
7195314058 | Syncretism | The combination of different forms of belief or practice. | 41 | |
7195315776 | Synthesis | The composition or combination of a parts or elements so as to form a whole. | 42 | |
7195322148 | Stratification | The act or process of dividing or arranging into classes, castes, or social strata. | 43 | |
7195324636 | Vernacular | Of, relating to, or characteristic of a period, place, or group. | 44 |
AP World History: Summer Vocabulary Flashcards
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