AP World History Vocab Flashcards

197932886	Abolish	do away with	1
197932887	Acquisition	the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something	2
197932888	Agrarian	relating to rural matters	3
197932889	Agriculture	the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock	4
197932890	Annex	attach; add to a large thing; take possession of; incorporate (territory) into a larger existing political unit (by force); N: building added to a large one	5
197932891	Ascetic	practices self denial as spiritual discipline	6
197932892	Atrocities	cruel and inhumane acts that people commit against each other	7
197932893	Bureaucracy	system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials	8
197932894	Caliph	the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth	9
197932895	Capitalist	a conservative advocate of capitalism	10
197932896	Capitulations	Agreements with European powers that gave European bankers and merchants unfair advantages in the Empire	11
197932897	Communism	a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society	12
197932898	Colonization	system of settling new lands that remain under the government of their native land	13
197932899	Conscription	compulsory military service; a draft	14
197932900	Conservatism	a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes	15
197932901	Cultural Diffusion	the spread of cultural elements from one society to another	16
197932902	Decentralized	withdrawn from a center or place of concentration	17
197932903	Democracy	a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them	18
197932904	Disillusionment	freeing from false belief or illusions	19
197932905	Domestic	of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation	20
197932906	Dynasty	a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family	21
197932907	Empire	the domain ruled by an emperor or empress	22
197932908	Envoy	someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else	23
197932909	Extraterritoriality	Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation.	24
197932910	Fascism	a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)	25
197932911	Feudalism	a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service	26
197932912	Immigrant	a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there	27
197932913	Imperialism	any instance of aggressive extension of authority	28
197932914	Indentured Labor	labor under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities	29
197932915	Indigenous	originating where it is found	30
197932916	Industrialization	the development of industry on an extensive scale	31
197932917	Kingdom	a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state	32
197932918	Maritime	bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea	33
197932919	Mercantilism	an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests	34
197932920	Merchant	a businessperson engaged in retail trade	35
197932921	Metallurgy	the science or art of metals. It includes the study of their properties and structure, the separation and refining of metals from their ores, the production of alloys, and the shaping and treatment of metals by heat and rolling.	36
197932922	Migration	the movement of persons from one country or locality to another	37
197932923	Monasticism	asceticism as a form of religious life	38
197932924	Monotheism	belief in a single God	39
197932925	Nationalism	love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it	40
197932926	Nomadic	(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently	41
197932927	Pastoral	relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle	42
197932928	Patriarchal	relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority	43
197932929	Polytheism	belief in many gods	44
197932930	Popular Sovereignty	people hold the final authority in all matters of government	45
197932931	Prohibit	command against	46
197932932	Reform	make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices	47
197932933	Reparation	something done or paid in expiation of a wrong	48
197932934	Rural	living in or characteristic of farming or country life	49
197932935	Secular	concerning those not members of the clergy	50
197932936	Sedentary	characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place	51
197932937	Self-Determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves	52
197932938	Shia	the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad	53
197932939	Socialism	a political theory advocating state ownership of industry	54
197932940	Subservient	abjectly submissive	55
197932941	Suffrage	the right to vote	56
197932942	Sunni	A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad	57
197932943	Tax	charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government	58
197932944	Totalitarianism	a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)	59
197932945	Urban	relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area	60