AP World History Jargon (Q-Z) Flashcards

242764988	Qualify	make fit or prepared	0
242764989	Quandry	a state of perplexity or doubt	1
242764990	Quantify	express as a number or measure or quantity	2
242764991	Quantity	how much there is of something that you can quantify	3
242764992	Quest	the act of searching for something	4
242764993	Racism	discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race	5
242764994	Racial	of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people	6
242764995	Radical	(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm	7
242764996	Rational	having its source in or being guided by the intellect (distinguished from experience or emotion)	8
242764997	Rationale	fundamental reason or principle (on which a system or principle is based); fundamental reason or justification; grounds for an action	9
242764998	Raw material	material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing	10
242764999	Rebel	a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)	11
242765000	Rebellion	organized opposition to authority	12
242765001	Reform	a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses	13
242765002	Regime	a government in power; a form or system of rule or management; a period of rule	14
242765003	Reincarnation	the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions	15
242765004	Republic	a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them	16
242765005	Revenue	the entire amount of income before any deductions are made	17
242765006	Revolt	organized opposition to authority	18
242765007	Revolution	the overthrow of a government by those who are governed	19
242765008	The Right	Politically active religious conservatives who became particularly vocal in the 1980's. The New Right criticized feminism, opposed abortion and homosexuality, and promoted "Family values" and military preparedness.	20
242765009	Rimland	The land, often islands and coastal plains, around the edge of an area	21
242765010	Rural	living in or characteristic of farming or country life	22
242765011	Russo-	Russian	23
242765012	Sacred	made or declared or believed to be holy	24
242765013	Scholastic	of or relating to schools	25
242765014	Secede	to leave or withdraw	26
242765015	Secession	formal separation from an alliance or federation	27
242765016	Secondary	of second rank or importance or value	28
242765017	Secular	worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal	29
242765018	Sedentary	characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place	30
242765019	Segregation	a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups	31
242765020	Serf	a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord	32
242765021	Serfdom	feudal system, the use of serfs to work the land in return for protection against barbarian invasions	33
242765022	Shaman	in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds	34
242765023	Shamanism	an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans	35
242765024	Sino-	Chinese, related to China	36
242765025	Skepticism	doubt about the truth of something	37
242765026	Slavery	the practice of owning slaves	38
242765027	Social Darwinism	The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.	39
242765028	Social democracy	a political ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism instead of a sudden violent overthrow of the system	40
242765029	Socialism	a political theory advocating state ownership of industry	41
242765030	Socio-economic	involving social as well as economic factors	42
242765031	Sovereignty	government free from external control. Also refers to Royal Authority.	43
242765032	Sovereign	a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right	44
242765033	Sphere of influence	the geographical area in which one nation is very influential	45
242765034	State	a politically organized body of people under a single government	46
242765035	Status quo ante bellum	the way things were before the war	47
242765036	Strata	subdivisions of population according to some characteristics (eg males and females). also means layers of sedimentary rock.	48
242765037	Stratification	the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata	49
242765038	Subsistence	minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting	50
242765039	Syncretic	relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections	51
242765040	Tariff	a government tax on imports or exports	52
242765041	Teleology	the explanation of phenomena by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes. • Theology: the doctrine of design and purpose in the material world.	53
242765042	Teleological	ethical theory concerned with outcome, whether an action produces greater good in the world	54
242765043	Terminal	causing or ending in or approaching death	55
242765044	Territory	the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state	56
242765045	Territorial	of or relating to the local vicinity	57
242765046	Terrorism	the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature	58
242765047	Textile	of or relating to fabrics or fabric making	59
242765048	Theocracy	the belief in government by divine guidance	60
242765049	Third World	Term applied to a group of developing countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.	61
242765050	Totalitarian	characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control	62
242765051	Tradition	a specific practice of long standing	63
242765052	Trust	a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service	64
242765053	Unanimity	everyone being of one mind. Complete agreement.	65
242765054	Union	the state of being joined or united or linked. Also refers to the Northern States in the US Civil War.	66
242765055	Urban	relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area	67
242765056	Utopian	an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer	68
242765057	Veneration	religious zeal	69
242765058	Verbal	communicated in the form of words	70
242765059	Verbalize	express in speech	71
242765060	Vernacular	the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)	72
242765061	Viceroy	governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign	73
242765062	The West	the United States, Great Britain, France, and other democratic nations	74
242765063	Working class	a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages	75
242765064	World-systems theory	economic and political connections that tie the world's countries together	76