History Jargon Flashcards

263606588	Regime	a form of government, a government in power, a period of rule The Mongol Empire was a regime.	1
263606589	Reincarnation	1. The rebirth of a soul in a new body 2. A person or animal in whom a particular soul is believed to have been reborn. Buddhism and HJinduism believe in the event of reincarnation.	2
266113809	Republic	1.A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. Rome was a republic, when the senate helped rule more fair.	3
266113810	Revenue	1 .A state's annual income. The overall amount of wealth gained for by a civilization.	4
266113811	Sovereign	A supreme ruler, esp. a monarch. A ruler who has absolute power. Caesar became a sovereign when he conquered Rome.	5
266113812	Sovereignity	1.Supreme power or authority. 2.The authority of a state to govern itself or another state. When a civilization would conquer a different civilization they would have power over the new civilization.	6
266113813	Sphere Influence	The geographical area in which one nation is very influential. The area where a civilization has the most power and influence. The Mongols were very influential in Eurasia, because of their large empire in that region.	7
266113814	State	1. A politically organized body of people under a single government. The Chinese Empire was a state.	8
266113815	Stratus quo ante bellum	It is written in Latin and it means the status, or the state of things, before the war.	9
266113816	Strata	1. The class one was in, in ancient times. A Sudra was a strata in the Indian caste system.	10
266113817	Stratification	1. The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata. The people of India were put in social classes depending on whether they were rich, poor, or what job one had.	11
266113818	Subsistence	1.The condition of remaining in existence. Civilization had to struggle in order to survive.	12
266113819	Syncretic	the combination or attempted fusing of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought When civilizations were conquered their cultures mixed with the culture of the people that had conquered them.	13
266113820	The West	Ususally refers to the western part of Europe. Countries like France, Italy, and Spain were part of this.	14
266113821	The Working Class	The social group consisting of people who are employed for wages, esp. in manual or industrial work. This is usualkly the larger part of the population, and it is also the key to civilizations' economies.	15
266113822	World System	a complex interconnected, large scale social system of economic, cultural, and/or intellectual exchange. The Silk Road was an asset that facilitated expanding the world system.	16
266113823	Theory	1.A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, esp. one based on general principles independent of the thing to be.	17