AP World History Jargon Flashcards

4337672179	Abolition	The ending of slavery	0
4337672180	Absolutism	Complete and unrestricted power in government	1
4337672181	Administer	To manage affairs and have executive charge	2
4337672182	Administration	The management of any business or organization	3
4337672183	Admonish	to caution against something or to remind	4
4337672184	-Archy	meaning Rule or Government	5
4337672185	Argue	a discussion involving different points of view: a debate	6
4337672186	Asceticism	The practice of self denial	7
4337672187	Authoritarian	Complete obedience to government	8
4337672188	Balance of Power	No single nation is strong enough to dominate another because of this kind of distribution	9
4337672189	Communism	The system of communal property and all the economic activity is controlled by the state	10
4337672190	Conjuncture	a critical combination of events or circumstances	11
4337672191	Conscript	to force someone to join the military	12
4337672192	Conservative	holding to traditional values and is cautious about changes	13
4337672193	Constitutionalism	when an established set of principles governs a state	14
4337672194	Consumer	a person that uses a commodity or service	15
4337672195	Consumerism	The concept that an ever expanding consumption of goods is really beneficial for the economy	16
4337672196	Conflate	To combine two or more texts into one	17
4337672197	Context	the circumstances of the situation (the setting)	18
4337672198	Continent	A main landmass of the globe: there are 7 of them	19
4337672199	Convention	A meeting of representatives to discuss matters of concern	20
4337672200	Conventional	something that is acceptable to society	21
4337672201	Converge	To come together	22
4337672202	Converse	an opposite	23
4337672203	Corporation	A group of individuals working together in the name of law but still having their own individual lives outside of their business	24
4337672204	Corollary	a natural consequence	25
4337672205	Correlation	a mutual relationship between two or more things	26
4337672206	Cosmopolitan	a person who is free from local attachments or biases and is a citizen of the world	27
4337672207	Coup d'etat	a political upheaval	28
4337672208	-Cracy	a suffix meaning governing body	29
4337672209	Craft	an art, trade, or special skill	30
4337672210	Credit	to obtain goods and services before payment because of trust	31
4337672211	Currency	something that is used as means of exchange	32
4337672212	Darwinism	the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest	33
4337672213	Empire	a group of nations that were dominated and are now ruled over by an supreme authority	34
4337672214	Enlighten	to impart knowledge upon	35
4337672215	Entrepot	a commercial center where goods are received for distribution	36
4337672216	Era	a distinctive period of time	37
4337672217	Ethic	morals that pertain to a certain group of people	38
4337672218	Ethnic	a group sharing a common culture	39
4337672219	Ethno-	a prefix meaning race or culture	40
4337672220	Euro	a prefix meaning European	41
4337672221	Executive Branch	the branch of the US government that is responsible for carrying out the laws	42
4337672222	Fascism	a government led by a dictator that suppresses and controls	43
4337672223	Feminism	advocation of the rights of women	44
4337672224	Feudalism	a social system where nobility gets land from the government in exchange for military service while the peasants get work and protection for their military service	45
4337672225	Fief	an estate of land granted by feudalism	46
4337672226	Filial	having to do with sons and daughters	47
4337672227	Fiscal	having to do with financial matters	48
4337672228	Forage	to search for food	49
4337672229	Frame of reference	criteria which judgements or measurements can be based off of	50
4337672230	Free trade	trade between countries free from governmental restrictions	51
4337672231	Frontier	the land that isn't quite settled on the outskirts of settled region	52
4337672232	Fundamental	a form of Protestant Christianity that believes in the strict literal adherence to the Bible	53
4337672233	Genocide	the deliberate and systematic annihilation of a certain group of people	54
4337672234	Geo	a prefix meaning earth	55
4337672235	Globalization	growth to a worldwide scale	56
4337672236	Government	the system in which a state is governed by	57
4337672237	-graphy	a suffix meanig drawing, writing, or recording	58
4337672238	Mandate	A command from a superior court to a lower one	59
4337672239	Manifest	to make clear or evident	60
4337672240	Manifesto	a public declaration of intentions	61
4337672241	Manuscript	something that is written by hand	62
4337672242	Maritime	pertaining to the sea	63
4337672243	Materiel	equipment required for an operation to be accomplished	64
4337672244	Medieval	relating to the Middle Ages	65
4337672245	Mercantilism	A belief in the economical theory that trade generates wealth	66
4337672246	Meta-	a prefix meaning after or beyond	67
4337672247	Metropolitan	relating to a capital city and its surrounding areas	68
4337672248	Middle class	between the high and low classes in rank or standing	69
4337672249	Migration	the act of moving from one place to another	70
4337672250	Militarism	the belief that a country should have a really strong military that is prepared to protect aggressively at any time	71
4337672251	Minister	a person authorized to conduct religious worship	72
4337672252	Monastery	a place of residents occupied by people who live in seclusion under religious vows	73
4337672253	Monogamy	marriage to only one person at a time	74
4337672254	Monopoly	exclusive control of a commodity or service	75
4337672255	Monsoon	a seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean	76
4337672256	Peasant	people who are farmers of low social rank	77
4337672257	Peonage	making someone your slave as a way of paying off their debt to you	78
4337672258	Period	a large interval of time	79
4337672259	Pilgrim	a person who journeys long distance	80
4337672260	Pilgrimage	a journey to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion	81
4337672261	Pragmatic	dealing with things sensibly and realistically based on logic not theory	82
4337672262	Priest	A person who performs religious rites	83
4337672263	Primary	first or of highest rank	84
4337672264	Principle	a fundamental doctrine	85
4337672265	Proletariat	the working class	86
4337672266	Propaganda	falsely persuasive advertisement	87
4337672267	Protectorate	a state controlled and protected by another	88
4337672268	Proto	a prefix meaning foremost	89
4337672269	Province	a division of certain territories	90
4337672270	Psycho	a prefix that means having to do with the human mentality	91
4337672271	Qualify	to be entitled to something because of previous experience	92
4337672272	Quandary	a state of being perplexed or uncertain	93
4337672273	Quantify	to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of	94
4337672274	Quantity	a particular amount of anything	95
4337672275	Quest	a search to find something	96
4337672276	Shaman	a person who is a middleman between the natural and supernatural worlds	97
4337672277	Sino	a prefix meaning Chinese	98
4337672278	Social Darwinism	survival of the fittest advocated by laissez-faire	99
4337672279	Social Democracy	a gradual and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means	100
4337672280	Socialism	a social organization where the rich give to the poor (robin hooding)	101
4337672281	Socio-economic	the combination of social and economic factors	102
4337672282	Debit	An item of debt recorded in an account	103
4337672283	Debt	something that is owed	104
4337672284	Deficit	an amount of money that falls short of the required amount	105
4337672285	Deforestation	clearing away trees	106
4337672286	Deism	the belief of God because of logical reasons- not supernatural ones	107
4337672287	Deity	a supreme being	108
4337672288	Democracy	government by the people	109
4337672289	Destiny	a predetermined and usually inevitable course of events	110
4337672290	Determinism	all events, including human action, are determined by external forces not one's own will	111
4337672291	Dictator	a person who has absolute power	112
4337672292	Diffuse	to spread out	113
4337672293	Diplomacy	managing international affairs	114
4337672294	Divinity	having to do with a God or a supreme being	115
4337672295	Doctrine	a belief or set of beliefs held by a certain party or group	116
4337672296	Document	any written item	117
4337672297	Dogma	a doctrine that is known to be true and is not questioned	118
4337672298	Domestic	having to do with home or local affairs	119
4337672299	Draft	the first version of a writing or a conscript for military service	120
4337672300	Dualism	the belief that there are two divine principle: good and evil	121
4337672301	Dynasty	a sequence of rulers from the same family or group	122
4337672302	Eclectic	something that is derived from many sources	123
4337672303	Economy	the management of resources	124
4337672304	Egalitarian	a belief in the equality of all people in every facet of life	125
4337672305	Elite	persons of the highest class	126
4337672306	Guild	an organization with related interests or goals who work to achieve mutual aid and protection	127
4337672307	Hegemony	one nation being more dominant than the others in their confederation	128
4337672308	Helio	a prefix meaning sun	129
4337672309	Hierarchy	a ranking system	130
4337672310	Historiography	a reliable narrative of history	131
4337672311	Hyper-	a prefix meaning over or excess	132
4337672312	Hypo-	a prefix meaning under or below	133
4337672313	Iberian	of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula	134
4337672314	Identity	a set of characteristics that one is known by	135
4337672315	Ideology	a system of thought for a certain group of people	136
4337672316	Imperialism	the expansion of one's rule over other territories	137
4337672317	incarnation	a physical embodiment of an idea or deity	138
4337672318	Indenture	someone who is forced to work because of a contract	139
4337672319	Independence	freedom from control	140
4337672320	Industrialism	a social or economic system built on manufacturing	141
4337672321	Inverse	something that is reversed in position	142
4337672322	-ism/-ist/-ize	suffixes denoting one who practices	143
4337672323	Judicial	having to do with a court or judge	144
4337672324	Junta	a military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force	145
4337672325	Kinship	a group of people who descended from the same ancestor	146
4337672326	Laissez-faire	the doctrine that says that government should not interfere in economic affairs except when necessary	147
4337672327	the Left	having to do with liberal or radical views in politics	148
4337672328	Legislature	the branch of the government that makes laws	149
4337672329	Legitimacy	something that is real and true	150
4337672330	Liberal	open minded to new things and is willing to discard old traditions	151
4337672331	-logy	a suffix having to do with science	152
4337672332	Malnutrition	lack of proper nutrition	153
4337672333	Mortality	the death rate	154
4337672334	Nation	the territory or country itself	155
4337672335	Nation-state	A country with a government who's population share a common identity.	156
4337672336	Nationalism	a devotion and loyalty toward one's country	157
4337672337	Neo-	a prefix meaning new	158
4337672338	NGO's	an abbreviation for non-government organizations	159
4337672339	Nobility	having to do with the aristocracy	160
4337672340	Nomad	a group of people that don't have a permanent home but moves about from place to place	161
4337672341	Nun	a woman member of a religious order bound by sacred religious vows	162
4337672342	Optimism	a tendency to look on the favorable side of events and expect favorable outcomes	163
4337672343	Oracle	a person who delivers highly regarded and important messages	164
4337672344	Oral	by mouth or spoken	165
4337672345	Orthodox	adhering to what is traditional and established, especially in religion	166
4337672346	Pacifism	opposition to war or violence	167
4337672347	Pagan	a person who believes in a religion that is not a world religion	168
4337672348	Paleo-	a prefix meaning old or ancient	169
4337672349	Pan-	a prefix meaning all	170
4337672350	Papacy	the government of the Roman Catholic Church	171
4337672351	Papal	having to do with the pope or the papacy	172
4337672352	Pastoral	having rural charm or domesticating animals	173
4337672353	Paternal	having to do with a father	174
4337672354	Patriarch	a male leader	175
4337672355	Patriarchy	a social system in which men are regarded as superior	176
4337672356	Patrician	an aristocrat	177
4337672357	Racism	the belief that one race is superior to another	178
4337672358	Radical	favoring the extremes	179
4337672359	Rational	agreeable, reasonable, sensible	180
4337672360	Rationale	the fundamental reasons for something	181
4337672361	Raw material	material in its natural form	182
4337672362	Rebel	a perso who resists any authority, control, or tradition	183
4337672363	Reform	to make changes in order to improve	184
4337672364	Regime	a system of rule or government	185
4337672365	Reincarnation	the rebirth of a soul in a new body	186
4337672366	Republic	A form of government in which citizens choose what leaders they want to represent them	187
4337672367	Revenue	the government's income	188
4337672368	Revolt	an organized opposition to authority	189
4337672369	the Right	having conservative beliefs	190
4337672370	Rimland	the fringe of a country or region	191
4337672371	Rural	having to do with the country	192
4337672372	Russo-	a prefix meaning russia	193
4337672373	Sacred	religious devotion	194
4337672374	Scholastic	having to do with schools or education	195
4337672375	Secede	to withdraw from an alliance or union	196
4337672376	Secondary	next after the first	197
4337672377	Secular	worldly things with no religious connotations	198
4337672378	Sedentary	not moving	199
4337672379	Segregation	separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences	200
4337672380	Serfdom	A type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but are not allowed to leave or find a new occupation.	201
4337672381	Sovereign	a monarch, king, or supreme ruler	202
4337672382	Sphere of Influence	when one nation has influence over others	203
4337672383	State	the condition of a person or thing because of particular circumstances	204
4337672384	Status Quo Ante Bellum	a phrase meaning "the situation as it was before the war"	205
4337672385	Strata	one part of a whole	206
4337672386	Subsistence	supporting oneself at a minimum level	207
4337672387	Syncretic	blending together different belief systems	208
4337672388	Tariff	a tax or duty that must be paid on particular imports and exports	209
4337672389	Teleology	the study of natural phenomenons	210
4337672390	Terminal	something that has a definite end	211
4337672391	Territory	the land and waters that belong to a state	212
4337672392	Terrorism	the use of violence and threats to intimidate	213
4337672393	Textile	material that is suitable for weaving	214
4337672394	Theocracy	a government run by religious leaders	215
4337672395	Third World	undeveloped nations of the world	216
4337672396	Totalitarian	a centralized government that censors and doesn't tolerate any other parties	217
4337672397	Tradition	a long established way of thinking, acting, or practices	218
4337672398	Trust	confidence in someone or a large company trying to become a monopoly	219
4337672399	Union	the act of uniting two or more things	220
4337672400	Viceroy	a person appointed to rule as a deputy to the ruler	221
4337672401	the West	cultures and societies heavily influenced by and connected to Europe	222
4337672402	Working Class	persons working for wages and are in a social class	223
4337672403	World systems theory	a theory proposing that social change in the developing world is inextricably linked to the economic activities of the developed world	224