AP Literature Vocabulary Week 8 Flashcards
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| 11778686577 | Locomotion (n) | Movement | 0 | |
| 11778692805 | Antediluvian (adj) | Very old | 1 | |
| 11778699679 | Grandiloquence (n) | Lofty, pompous language | 2 | |
| 11778764319 | Insatiable (adj) | Incapable of being satisfied | 3 | |
| 11778792434 | Bellwether (n) | A leader or trendsetter | 4 | |
| 11778798674 | Flummox (v) | To bewilder someone | 5 | |
| 11778804062 | Alacrity (n) | Liveliness, eagerness | 6 | |
| 11778811056 | Argle-bargle (n) | Talk or writing that is excessively unnecessary but also meaningless | 7 | |
| 11778844365 | Lipogram (n) | A written work that deliberately avoids using a certain letter of the alphabet, found in ancient Greek poetry | 8 | |
| 11778898048 | Adulation (n) | Excessive flattery or praise | 9 | |
| 11778912632 | Iconoclast (n) | Someone who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions | 10 | |
| 11782987868 | Inchoate (adj) | Only partly in existence, not fully formed | 11 |
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AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 4026057327 | egalitarian | (adj) related to the belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social spheres | 0 | |
| 4026057328 | kinship | culturally defined relationships between individuals who are commonly thought of as having family ties. Based on marriage and decent. | 1 | |
| 4026057329 | diversified | having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | 2 | |
| 4026057330 | patriarchy | a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | 3 | |
| 4026057331 | elite | a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities. | 4 | |
| 4026057332 | pastoral | having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas | 5 | |
| 4026057333 | specialization | A focus on a particular activity or area of study | 6 | |
| 4026057334 | stratified | ARRANGED IN LAYERS | 7 | |
| 4026057335 | conduit | a means by which something is transmitted | 8 | |
| 4026057336 | hinderance | obstacle | 9 | |
| 4026057337 | flora and fauna | plants and animals | 10 | |
| 4026057338 | erosion | Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation) | 11 | |
| 4026057339 | artisan | A skilled craftsperson | 12 | |
| 4026057340 | textile | A fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing | 13 | |
| 4026057341 | metallurgy | The science and technology of metals | 14 | |
| 4026057342 | accumulated | gathered a lot of things | 15 | |
| 4026057343 | bureaucracy | A large, complex organization composed of appointed officials | 16 | |
| 4026057344 | civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes | 17 | |
| 4026057345 | hierarchical | arranging things one above the other by rank | 18 | |
| 4026057346 | social stratification | A system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy | 19 | |
| 4026057348 | constraint | 20 | ||
| 4026057349 | fertility | 21 | ||
| 4026057350 | undermine | 22 | ||
| 4026057351 | mobilized | 23 | ||
| 4026057352 | divine | 24 | ||
| 4026057353 | deity | 25 | ||
| 4026057354 | surplus | 26 | ||
| 4026057355 | monumental | 27 | ||
| 4026057356 | disseminators | 28 | ||
| 4026057357 | urban planning | 29 | ||
| 4026057358 | foundational | 30 | ||
| 4026057359 | monotheism | 31 | ||
| 4026057360 | elaborate | 32 | ||
| 4026057361 | regional | 33 | ||
| 4026057362 | transregional | 34 | ||
| 4026057363 | diffuse | 35 | ||
| 4026057364 | mode | 36 | ||
| 4026057365 | intensification | 37 | ||
| 4026057366 | illustrative | 38 | ||
| 4026057367 | arose | 39 | ||
| 4026057368 | razed | 40 | ||
| 4026057369 | codification | 41 | ||
| 4026057370 | ethical | 42 | ||
| 4026057371 | occupation | 43 | ||
| 4026057372 | reinforced | 44 | ||
| 4026057373 | bond | 45 | ||
| 4026057374 | continuation | 46 | ||
| 4026057375 | manifestations | 47 | ||
| 4026057376 | reincarnation | 48 | ||
| 4026057377 | diaspora | 49 | ||
| 4026057378 | scripture | 50 | ||
| 4026057379 | ritual | 51 | ||
| 4026057380 | missionaries | 52 | ||
| 4026057381 | merchants | 53 | ||
| 4026057382 | enlightened | 54 | ||
| 4026057383 | disciples | 55 | ||
| 4026057384 | institutions | 56 | ||
| 4026057385 | veneration | 57 | ||
| 4026057386 | imperial | 58 | ||
| 4026057387 | empirical | 59 | ||
| 4026057388 | logic | 60 | ||
| 4026057389 | piety | 61 | ||
| 4026057390 | monastic | 62 | ||
| 4026057391 | persistant | 63 | ||
| 4026057392 | parallel | 64 | ||
| 4026057393 | distinctive | 65 | ||
| 4026057394 | convergence | 66 | ||
| 4026057395 | divergent | 67 | ||
| 4026057396 | integrate | 68 | ||
| 4026057397 | exploit | 69 | ||
| 4026057398 | overexploit | 70 | ||
| 4026057399 | excessive | 71 | ||
| 4026057400 | privileged | 72 | ||
| 4026057401 | impose | 73 | ||
| 4026057402 | centralized | 74 | ||
| 4026057403 | decentralized | 75 | ||
| 4026057404 | projected | 76 | ||
| 4026057405 | fortification | 77 | ||
| 4026057406 | promotion | 78 | ||
| 4026057407 | diplomacy | 79 | ||
| 4026057408 | currency | 80 | ||
| 4026057409 | cultivators | 81 | ||
| 4026057410 | dimensions | 82 | ||
| 4026057411 | transformation | 83 | ||
| 4026057412 | administrative | 84 | ||
| 4026057413 | administration | 85 | ||
| 4026057414 | frontier | 86 | ||
| 4026057415 | external | 87 | ||
| 4026057416 | internal | 88 | ||
| 4026057417 | deforestation | 89 | ||
| 4026057418 | desertification | 90 | ||
| 4026057419 | silt | 91 | ||
| 4026057420 | raw materials | 92 | ||
| 4026057421 | luxury goods | 93 | ||
| 4026057422 | pathogens | 94 | ||
| 4026057423 | facilitated | 95 | ||
| 4026057424 | ethnicity | 96 | ||
| 4026057425 | caravan | 97 | ||
| 4026057426 | sea lanes | 98 | ||
| 4026057427 | simulator | 99 | ||
| 4026057428 | maritime | 100 | ||
| 4026057429 | stimulated | 101 | ||
| 4026057430 | irrigation | 102 | ||
| 4026057431 | far flung | 103 | ||
| 4026057432 | diminished | 104 | ||
| 4026057433 | antiquity | 105 | ||
| 4026057434 | classical | 106 | ||
| 4026057436 | commercial | 107 | ||
| 4026057437 | interaction | 108 | ||
| 4026057438 | mercantile | 109 | ||
| 4026057439 | fostered | 110 | ||
| 4026057440 | flourished | 111 | ||
| 4026057441 | unprecedented | 112 | ||
| 4026057442 | interregional | 113 | ||
| 4026057443 | intra | 114 | ||
| 4026057444 | sophisticated | 115 | ||
| 4026057446 | infrastructure! | 116 | ||
| 4026057447 | statesponsored | 117 | ||
| 4026057449 | monetization ! | 118 | ||
| 4026057450 | transplanted! | 119 | ||
| 4026057451 | emerge! | 120 | ||
| 4026057452 | minting! | 121 | ||
| 4026057453 | linguistic! | 122 | ||
| 4026057454 | adaptations ! | 123 | ||
| 4026057455 | indigenous! | 124 | ||
| 4026057456 | revelation! | 125 | ||
| 4026057457 | steppes! | 126 | ||
| 4026057458 | transmission! | 127 | ||
| 4026057459 | consumer! | 128 | ||
| 4026057460 | intercultural! | 129 | ||
| 4026057461 | subsequently! | 130 | ||
| 4026057462 | extent! | 131 | ||
| 4026057463 | literary! | 132 | ||
| 4026057464 | reconstituted! | 133 | ||
| 4026057465 | circumstances! | 134 | ||
| 4026057466 | epidemic! | 135 | ||
| 4026057467 | state craft! | 136 | ||
| 4026057468 | legitimacy! | 137 | ||
| 4026057469 | governance! | 138 | ||
| 4026057470 | synthesized! | 139 | ||
| 4026057471 | scope! | 140 | ||
| 4026057472 | capacity! | 141 | ||
| 4026057473 | productivity! | 142 | ||
| 4026057474 | demographic! | 143 | ||
| 4026057475 | coerced labor! | 144 | ||
| 4026057476 | monarchy! | 145 | ||
| 4026057477 | monarch! | 146 | ||
| 4026057478 | feudalism! | 147 | ||
| 4026057479 | porcelain! | 148 | ||
| 4026057480 | buoy ! | 149 | ||
| 4026057481 | conversion! | 150 | ||
| 4026057482 | unfree! | 151 | ||
| 4026057483 | exercise ! | 152 | ||
| 4026057484 | peasants! | 153 | ||
| 4026057485 | guild! | 154 | ||
| 4026057486 | domestic! ! | 155 | ||
| 4026057487 | Period 4! | 156 | ||
| 4026057488 | voyaging! | 157 | ||
| 4026057489 | commodity! | 158 | ||
| 4026057490 | transoceanic! | 159 | ||
| 4026057491 | reconnaissance ! | 160 | ||
| 4026057492 | sponsorship! | 161 | ||
| 4026057493 | serfdom! | 162 | ||
| 4026057494 | infrequent! | 163 | ||
| 4026057495 | hemisphere! | 164 | ||
| 4026057496 | monopoly! | 165 | ||
| 4026057497 | characterized! | 166 | ||
| 4026057498 | vermin! | 167 | ||
| 4026057499 | commercialization! | 168 | ||
| 4026057500 | circulation! | 169 | ||
| 4026057501 | current (ocean)! | 170 | ||
| 4026057502 | maritime! | 171 | ||
| 4026057503 | depletion! | 172 | ||
| 4026057504 | practices! | 173 | ||
| 4026057505 | prestige! | 174 | ||
| 4026057506 | naval! | 175 | ||
| 4026057507 | syncretic! | 176 | ||
| 4026057508 | proliferation! | 177 | ||
| 4026057509 | charter! | 178 | ||
| 4026057510 | colony! | 179 | ||
| 4026057511 | classification! | 180 | ||
| 4026057512 | incorporation! | 181 | ||
| 4026057513 | fluctuated! | 182 | ||
| 4026057514 | chattel ! | 183 | ||
| 4026057515 | consolidate! | 184 | ||
| 4026057516 | foster! | 185 | ||
| 4026057517 | legitimize! | 186 | ||
| 4026057518 | notion! | 187 | ||
| 4026057519 | utilized! | 188 | ||
| 4026057520 | revenue! | 189 | ||
| 4026057521 | manufactured! | 190 | ||
| 4026057522 | traditional! | 191 | ||
| 4026057523 | salaried! | 192 | ||
| 4026057524 | tribute! | 193 | ||
| 4026057525 | rivalries! | 194 | ||
| 4026057526 | resistance! | 195 | ||
| 4026057587 | piracy! ! | 196 | ||
| 4026057588 | Period 5! | 197 | ||
| 4026057589 | precision! | 198 | ||
| 4026057590 | fundamental! | 199 | ||
| 4026057591 | capital! | 200 | ||
| 4026057592 | fossil fuels! | 201 | ||
| 4026057593 | combustion! | 202 | ||
| 4026057594 | consumer! | 203 | ||
| 4026057595 | mining! | 204 | ||
| 4026057596 | array! | 205 | ||
| 4026057597 | sought! | 206 | ||
| 4026057598 | investments! | 207 | ||
| 4026057599 | ideologies! | 208 | ||
| 4026057600 | economic! | 209 | ||
| 4026057601 | transnational! | 210 | ||
| 4026057602 | pre-industrial! | 211 | ||
| 4026057603 | pensions! | 212 | ||
| 4026057604 | industry! | 213 | ||
| 4026057605 | suffrage! | 214 | ||
| 4026057606 | criticism! | 215 | ||
| 4026057607 | mitigated! | 216 | ||
| 4026057608 | reforms! | 217 | ||
| 4026057609 | contraction! | 218 | ||
| 4026057610 | restructuring! | 219 | ||
| 4026057611 | underwent! | 220 | ||
| 4026057612 | sanitation! | 221 | ||
| 4026057613 | evolution ! | 222 | ||
| 4026057614 | influence! | 223 | ||
| 4026057615 | commonality! | 224 | ||
| 4026057616 | emulated! | 225 | ||
| 4026057617 | profound! | 226 | ||
| 4026057618 | justified! | 227 | ||
| 4026057619 | rebellions! | 228 | ||
| 4026057620 | revolutionary! | 229 | ||
| 4026057621 | tendency! | 230 | ||
| 4026057622 | propel! | 231 | ||
| 4026057623 | critique! | 232 | ||
| 4026057624 | subject! | 233 | ||
| 4026057625 | semi-coerced | 234 |
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AP World History Week 11 1-10 Flashcards
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| 11221727842 | Serf | A peasant who is bounded to the land he or she works. | 0 | |
| 11221737601 | Benefice | in medieval Europe, a grant of land or other privilege to a vassal. | 1 | |
| 11221747282 | Reconquista(Reconquest) | The recapture of Muslim-held lands in Spain by Christian forces; it was complete in 1492. | 2 | |
| 11221753137 | Hanseatic League | although Europe experienced an unfavorable balance of trade with the East, several trading cities in northern Europe capitalized on regional commerce that formed this league. By the 13th century, this trade association was active in the Baltic and North Sea regions. | 3 | |
| 11221756874 | William the Conqueror | in 1066, the Duke of Normandy, arrived in England from his Normandy province. Rather than following a complex structure of lords and vassals, he imposed a feudal structure that required all vassals to owe their allegiance directly to the monarchy. | 4 | |
| 11221763224 | The Crusades | between Western and Eastern worlds between Christianity and Islam to try to retake the Holy Land from the Seljuk Turks, Western Europeans were exposed to the larger and more prosperous urban areas of the Byzantine Empire. These wars introduced the West to sugarcane, spices and luxury goods such as porcelain, glassware, and carpets from the Eastern world. Trade between east and west increased, although unbalanced because the East didn't want Western goods. | 5 | |
| 11221766642 | Chivalry | a knight's code of honor in medieval Europe. | 6 | |
| 11221769680 | Excommunication | the practice of the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with the church teachings or practices. | 7 | |
| 11221769681 | Feudalism | was an economic, political and social system. Throughout most areas of Western Europe, nobles or landlords offered benefices, or privileges, to vassals in exchange for military service in the lord's army or agricultural labor on the lord's estate. | 8 | |
| 11221784932 | 4th Crusade | merchants from Venice expressed their intense rivalry with Eastern merchants by looting the city of Constantinople. | 9 |
AP World History Week 11 11-20 Flashcards
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| 11224288746 | Vassal | In medieval Europe, a person who pledged military or other service to a lord in exchange for a gift or land or other privilege. | 0 | |
| 11224221209 | Covenants | offered women opportunities for service in their communities. For the most part, however, medieval European women were expected to serve as reflections of their husbands. | 1 | |
| 11224228046 | Fief | a piece of land given to a vassal exchange for military service. | 2 | |
| 11224232732 | Gothic Architecture | architecture of 12th century Europe, featuring stained-glass windows, flying buttresses, and tall spires and pointed arches. | 3 | |
| 11224242005 | Investiture | was a process by which monarchs appointed church bishops. Especially intense was the controversy between Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) and the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, which culminated with the excommunication of Henry IV. Henry's subsequent confession demonstrated that, in this instance, the pope had gained the upper hand. | 4 | |
| 11224245291 | Manorialism | peasants remained to work the land, receiving protection from their landlords in chanced for their agricultural labor. As trade continued to decline and political order disintegrated, this became more widespread. | 5 | |
| 11224278698 | Medieval | pertaining to the middles ages of European history. | 6 | |
| 11224278699 | Middle Ages | the period of European history traditionally given as 500-1500. | 7 | |
| 11224284736 | Moldboard Plow | created in the 9th century that allowed the people in Western Europe to turn the heavy soil. | 8 | |
| 11224284737 | Parliament | the first English meeting convened in 1265, also was an extension of feudal rights of collaboration between kings and vassals. | 9 |
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