AP World History - 2011 Summer Assignment Flashcards

Vocabulary words.

192452357	Abolish	do away with	0
192452358	Acquisition	an ability that has been acquired by training	1
192452359	Agrarian	relating to rural matters	2
192452360	Agriculture	the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock	3
192452361	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	4
192452362	Ascetic	practices self denial as spiritual discipline	5
192452363	Atrocities	cruel and inhumane acts that people commit against each other	6
192452364	Bureaucracy	nonelective government officials	7
192452365	Caliph	the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth	8
192452366	Capitalist	a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)	9
192452367	Capitulations	Agreements with European powers that gave European bankers and merchants unfair advantages in the Empire	10
192452368	Colonization	the act of colonizing	11
192452369	Communism	a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership	12
192452370	Conscription	compulsory military service	13
192452371	Conservatism	a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes	14
192452372	Cultural Diffusion	the spread of cultural elements from one society to another	15
192452373	Decentralized	withdrawn from a center or place of concentration	16
192452374	Democracy	a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them	17
192452375	Disillusionment	freeing from false belief or illusions	18
192452376	Domestic	a household servant	19
192452377	Dynasty	a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family	20
192452378	Empire	a group of countries under a single authority	21
192452379	Envoy	someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else	22
192452380	Extraterritoriality	Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation.	23
192452381	Fascism	a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)	24
192452382	Feudalism	the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C	25
192452383	Immigrant	a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there	26
192452384	Imperialism	a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries	27
192452385	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
192452386	Indigenous	originating where it is found	29
192452387	Industrialization	the development of industry on an extensive scale	30
192452388	Kingdom	a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state	31
192452389	Maritime	bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea	32
192452390	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
192452391	Merchant	a businessperson engaged in retail trade	34
192452392	Metallurgy	the science and technology of metals	35
192452393	Migration	the movement of persons from one country or locality to another	36
192452394	Monasticism	asceticism as a form of religious life	37
192452395	Monotheism	belief in a single God	38
192452396	Nationalism	love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it	39
192452397	Nomadic	(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently	40
192452398	Pastoral	a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)	41
192452399	Patriarchal	relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority	42
192452400	Polytheism	belief in multiple Gods	43
192452401	Popular Sovereignty	people hold the final authority in all matters of government	44
192452402	Prohibit	command against	45
192452403	Reform	a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses	46
192452404	Reparation	compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury	47
192452405	Rural	living in or characteristic of farming or country life	48
192452406	Secular	concerning those not members of the clergy	49
192452407	Sedentary	characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place	50
192452408	Self-determination	the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will	51
192452409	Shia	the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad	52
192452410	Socialism	a political theory advocating state ownership of industry	53
192452411	Subservient	abjectly submissive	54
192452412	Sufferage	the right to vote	55
192452413	Sunni	a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad	56
192452414	Tax	charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government	57
192452415	Totalitarianism	a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)	58
192452416	Urban	relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area	59