Ap world history Flashcards

193736025	abolish	do away with	0
193736026	acquisition	an ability that has been acquired by training	1
193736027	agrarian	relating to rural matters	2
193736028	agriculture	the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock	3
193736029	annex	an addition that extends a main building	4
193736030	ascetic	practices self denial as spiritual discipline	5
193736031	atrocities	cruel and inhumane acts that people commit against each other	6
193736032	bureaucracy	nonelective government officials	7
193736033	caliph	the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth	8
193736034	capitalist	favoring or practicing capitalism	9
193736035	capitulations	Agreements with European powers that gave European bankers and merchants unfair advantages in the Empire	10
193736036	colonization	the act of colonizing	11
193736037	communism	a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society	12
193736038	conscription	compulsory military service	13
193736039	conservatism	a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes	14
193736040	cultural diffusion	the spread of cultural elements from one society to another	15
193736041	decentralized	withdrawn from a center or place of concentration	16
193736042	democracy	the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives	17
193736043	disillusionment	freeing from false belief or illusions	18
193736044	domestic	of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation	19
194204363	dynasty	a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family	20
194204364	empire	a group of countries under a single authority	21
194204365	envoy	someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else	22
194204366	extraterritoriality	Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation.	23
194204367	fascism	a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)	24
194204368	feudalism	the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C	25
194204369	immigrant	a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there	26
194204370	imperialism	a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries	27
194204371	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	28
194204372	indigenous	originating where it is found	29
194204373	industrialization	the development of industry on an extensive scale	30
194204374	kingdom	a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state	31
194204375	maritime	bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea	32
194204376	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	33
194204377	merchant	a businessperson engaged in retail trade	34
194204378	metallurgy	the science and technology of metals	35
194204379	migration	the movement of persons from one country or locality to another	36
194204380	monasticism	asceticism as a form of religious life	37
194204381	monotheism	belief in a single God	38
194204382	nationalism	love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it	39
194207691	nomadic	wandering, moving about from place to place	40
194207692	pastoral	a literary work idealizing the rural life	41
194207693	patriarchal	characteristic of a patriarchy	42
194207694	polytheism	belief in multiple Gods	43
194207695	popular sovereignty	people hold the final authority in all matters of government	44
194207696	prohibit	command against	45
194207697	reform	a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses	46
194207698	reparation	compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury	47
194207699	rural	living in or characteristic of farming or country life	48
194207700	secular	concerning those not members of the clergy	49
194207701	sedentary	used of persons or actions	50
194207702	self-determination	the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will	51
194207703	Shia	one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam	52
194207704	socialism	a political theory advocating state ownership of industry	53
194207705	subservient	compliant and obedient to authority	54
194207706	suffrage	a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution	55
194207707	Sunni	one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam, a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad	56
194207708	tax	charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government	57
194207709	totalitarianism	a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator	58
194207710	urban	relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area	59