AP World History Jargon Flashcards

4262721320	Abolition	The ending of slavery	0
4262721321	Absolutism	Complete and unrestricted power in government	1
4262721322	Administer	To manage affairs and have executive charge	2
4262721323	Administration	The management of any business or organization	3
4262721324	Admonish	to caution against something or to remind	4
4262721325	-Archy	meaning Rule or Government	5
4262721326	Argue	a discussion involving different points of view: a debate	6
4262721327	Asceticism	The practice of self denial	7
4262721328	Authoritarian	Complete obedience to government	8
4262721329	Balance of Power	No single nation is strong enough to dominate another because of this kind of distribution	9
4262721330	Communism	The system of communal property and all the economic activity is controlled by the state	10
4262721331	Conjuncture	a critical combination of events or circumstances	11
4262721332	Conscript	to force someone to join the military	12
4262721333	Conservative	holding to traditional values and is cautious about changes	13
4262721334	Constitutionalism	when an established set of principles governs a state	14
4262721335	Consumer	a person that uses a commodity or service	15
4262721336	Consumerism	The concept that an ever expanding consumption of goods is really beneficial for the economy	16
4262721337	Conflate	To combine two or more texts into one	17
4262721338	Context	the circumstances of the situation (the setting)	18
4262721339	Continent	A main landmass of the globe: there are 7 of them	19
4262721340	Convention	A meeting of representatives to discuss matters of concern	20
4262721341	Conventional	something that is acceptable to society	21
4262721342	Converge	To come together	22
4262721343	Converse	an opposite	23
4262721344	Corporation	A group of individuals working together in the name of law but still having their own individual lives outside of their business	24
4262721345	Corollary	a natural consequence	25
4262721346	Correlation	a mutual relationship between two or more things	26
4262721347	Cosmopolitan	a person who is free from local attachments or biases and is a citizen of the world	27
4262721348	Coup d'etat	a political upheaval	28
4262721349	-Cracy	a suffix meaning governing body	29
4262721350	Craft	an art, trade, or special skill	30
4262721351	Credit	to obtain goods and services before payment because of trust	31
4262721352	Currency	something that is used as means of exchange	32
4262721353	Darwinism	the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest	33
4262721354	Empire	a group of nations that were dominated and are now ruled over by an supreme authority	34
4262721355	Enlighten	to impart knowledge upon	35
4262721356	Entrepot	a commercial center where goods are received for distribution	36
4262721357	Era	a distinctive period of time	37
4262721358	Ethic	morals that pertain to a certain group of people	38
4262721359	Ethnic	a group sharing a common culture	39
4262721360	Ethno-	a prefix meaning race or culture	40
4262721361	Euro	a prefix meaning European	41
4262721362	Executive Branch	the branch of the US government that is responsible for carrying out the laws	42
4262721363	Fascism	a government led by a dictator that suppresses and controls	43
4262721364	Feminism	advocation of the rights of women	44
4262721365	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
4262721366	Fief	an estate of land granted by feudalism	46
4262721367	Filial	having to do with sons and daughters	47
4262721368	Fiscal	having to do with financial matters	48
4262721369	Forage	to search for food	49
4262721370	Frame of reference	criteria which judgements or measurements can be based off of	50
4262721371	Free trade	trade between countries free from governmental restrictions	51
4262721372	Frontier	the land that isn't quite settled on the outskirts of settled region	52
4262721373	Fundamental	a form of Protestant Christianity that believes in the strict literal adherence to the Bible	53
4262721374	Genocide	the deliberate and systematic annihilation of a certain group of people	54
4262721375	Geo	a prefix meaning earth	55
4262721376	Globalization	growth to a worldwide scale	56
4262721377	Government	the system in which a state is governed by	57
4262721378	-graphy	a suffix meanig drawing, writing, or recording	58
4262721379	Mandate	A command from a superior court to a lower one	59
4262721380	Manifest	to make clear or evident	60
4262721381	Manifesto	a public declaration of intentions	61
4262721382	Manuscript	something that is written by hand	62
4262721383	Maritime	pertaining to the sea	63
4262721384	Materiel	equipment required for an operation to be accomplished	64
4262721385	Medieval	relating to the Middle Ages	65
4262721386	Mercantilism	A belief in the economical theory that trade generates wealth	66
4262721387	Meta-	a prefix meaning after or beyond	67
4262721388	Metropolitan	relating to a capital city and its surrounding areas	68
4262721389	Middle class	between the high and low classes in rank or standing	69
4262721390	Migration	the act of moving from one place to another	70
4262721391	Militarism	the belief that a country should have a really strong military that is prepared to protect aggressively at any time	71
4262721392	Minister	a person authorized to conduct religious worship	72
4262721393	Monastery	a place of residents occupied by people who live in seclusion under religious vows	73
4262721394	Monogamy	marriage to only one person at a time	74
4262721395	Monopoly	exclusive control of a commodity or service	75
4262721396	Monsoon	a seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean	76
4262721397	Peasant	people who are farmers of low social rank	77
4262721398	Peonage	making someone your slave as a way of paying off their debt to you	78
4262721399	Period	a large interval of time	79
4262721400	Pilgrim	a person who journeys long distance	80
4262721401	Pilgrimage	a journey to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion	81
4262721402	Pragmatic	dealing with things sensibly and realistically based on logic not theory	82
4262721403	Priest	A person who performs religious rites	83
4262721404	Primary	first or of highest rank	84
4262721405	Principle	a fundamental doctrine	85
4262721406	Proletariat	the working class	86
4262721407	Propaganda	falsely persuasive advertisement	87
4262721408	Protectorate	a state controlled and protected by another	88
4262721409	Proto	a prefix meaning foremost	89
4262721410	Province	a division of certain territories	90
4262721411	Psycho	a prefix that means having to do with the human mentality	91
4262721412	Qualify	to be entitled to something because of previous experience	92
4262721413	Quandary	a state of being perplexed or uncertain	93
4262721414	Quantify	to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of	94
4262721415	Quantity	a particular amount of anything	95
4262721416	Quest	a search to find something	96
4262721417	Shaman	a person who is a middleman between the natural and supernatural worlds	97
4262721418	Sino	a prefix meaning Chinese	98
4262721419	Social Darwinism	survival of the fittest advocated by laissez-faire	99
4262721420	Social Democracy	a gradual and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means	100
4262721421	Socialism	a social organization where the rich give to the poor (robin hooding)	101
4262721422	Socio-economic	the combination of social and economic factors	102
4262721423	Debit	An item of debt recorded in an account	103
4262721424	Debt	something that is owed	104
4262721425	Deficit	an amount of money that falls short of the required amount	105
4262721426	Deforestation	clearing away trees	106
4262721427	Deism	the belief of God because of logical reasons- not supernatural ones	107
4262721428	Deity	a supreme being	108
4262721429	Democracy	government by the people	109
4262721430	Destiny	a predetermined and usually inevitable course of events	110
4262721431	Determinism	all events, including human action, are determined by external forces not one's own will	111
4262721432	Dictator	a person who has absolute power	112
4262721433	Diffuse	to spread out	113
4262721434	Diplomacy	managing international affairs	114
4262721435	Divinity	having to do with a God or a supreme being	115
4262721436	Doctrine	a belief or set of beliefs held by a certain party or group	116
4262721437	Document	any written item	117
4262721438	Dogma	a doctrine that is known to be true and is not questioned	118
4262721439	Domestic	having to do with home or local affairs	119
4262721440	Draft	the first version of a writing or a conscript for military service	120
4262721441	Dualism	the belief that there are two divine principle: good and evil	121
4262721442	Dynasty	a sequence of rulers from the same family or group	122
4262721443	Eclectic	something that is derived from many sources	123
4262721444	Economy	the management of resources	124
4262721445	Egalitarian	a belief in the equality of all people in every facet of life	125
4262721446	Elite	persons of the highest class	126
4262721447	Guild	an organization with related interests or goals who work to achieve mutual aid and protection	127
4262721448	Hegemony	one nation being more dominant than the others in their confederation	128
4262721449	Helio	a prefix meaning sun	129
4262721450	Hierarchy	a ranking system	130
4262721451	Historiography	a reliable narrative of history	131
4262721452	Hyper-	a prefix meaning over or excess	132
4262721453	Hypo-	a prefix meaning under or below	133
4262721454	Iberian	of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula	134
4262721455	Identity	a set of characteristics that one is known by	135
4262721456	Ideology	a system of thought for a certain group of people	136
4262721457	Imperialism	the expansion of one's rule over other territories	137
4262721458	incarnation	a physical embodiment of an idea or deity	138
4262721459	Indenture	someone who is forced to work because of a contract	139
4262721460	Independence	freedom from control	140
4262721461	Industrialism	a social or economic system built on manufacturing	141
4262721462	Inverse	something that is reversed in position	142
4262721463	-ism/-ist/-ize	suffixes denoting one who practices	143
4262721464	Judicial	having to do with a court or judge	144
4262721465	Junta	a military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force	145
4262721466	Kinship	a group of people who descended from the same ancestor	146
4262721467	Laissez-faire	the doctrine that says that government should not interfere in economic affairs except when necessary	147
4262721468	the Left	having to do with liberal or radical views in politics	148
4262721469	Legislature	the branch of the government that makes laws	149
4262721470	Legitimacy	something that is real and true	150
4262721471	Liberal	open minded to new things and is willing to discard old traditions	151
4262721472	-logy	a suffix having to do with science	152
4262721473	Malnutrition	lack of proper nutrition	153
4262721474	Mortality	the death rate	154
4262721475	Nation	the territory or country itself	155
4262721476	Nation-state	A country with a government who's population share a common identity.	156
4262721477	Nationalism	a devotion and loyalty toward one's country	157
4262721478	Neo-	a prefix meaning new	158
4262721479	NGO's	an abbreviation for non-government organizations	159
4262721480	Nobility	having to do with the aristocracy	160
4262721481	Nomad	a group of people that don't have a permanent home but moves about from place to place	161
4262721482	Nun	a woman member of a religious order bound by sacred religious vows	162
4262721483	Optimism	a tendency to look on the favorable side of events and expect favorable outcomes	163
4262721484	Oracle	a person who delivers highly regarded and important messages	164
4262721485	Oral	by mouth or spoken	165
4262721486	Orthodox	adhering to what is traditional and established, especially in religion	166
4262721487	Pacifism	opposition to war or violence	167
4262721488	Pagan	a person who believes in a religion that is not a world religion	168
4262721489	Paleo-	a prefix meaning old or ancient	169
4262721490	Pan-	a prefix meaning all	170
4262721491	Papacy	the government of the Roman Catholic Church	171
4262721492	Papal	having to do with the pope or the papacy	172
4262721493	Pastoral	having rural charm or domesticating animals	173
4262721494	Paternal	having to do with a father	174
4262721495	Patriarch	a male leader	175
4262721496	Patriarchy	a social system in which men are regarded as superior	176
4262721497	Patrician	an aristocrat	177
4262721498	Racism	the belief that one race is superior to another	178
4262721499	Radical	favoring the extremes	179
4262721500	Rational	agreeable, reasonable, sensible	180
4262721501	Rationale	the fundamental reasons for something	181
4262721502	Raw material	material in its natural form	182
4262721503	Rebel	a perso who resists any authority, control, or tradition	183
4262721504	Reform	to make changes in order to improve	184
4262721505	Regime	a system of rule or government	185
4262721506	Reincarnation	the rebirth of a soul in a new body	186
4262721507	Republic	A form of government in which citizens choose what leaders they want to represent them	187
4262721508	Revenue	the government's income	188
4262721509	Revolt	an organized opposition to authority	189
4262721510	the Right	having conservative beliefs	190
4262721511	Rimland	the fringe of a country or region	191
4262721512	Rural	having to do with the country	192
4262721513	Russo-	a prefix meaning russia	193
4262721514	Sacred	religious devotion	194
4262721515	Scholastic	having to do with schools or education	195
4262721516	Secede	to withdraw from an alliance or union	196
4262721517	Secondary	next after the first	197
4262721518	Secular	worldly things with no religious connotations	198
4262721519	Sedentary	not moving	199
4262721520	Segregation	separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences	200
4262721521	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
4262721522	Sovereign	a monarch, king, or supreme ruler	202
4262721523	Sphere of Influence	when one nation has influence over others	203
4262721524	State	the condition of a person or thing because of particular circumstances	204
4262721525	Status Quo Ante Bellum	a phrase meaning "the situation as it was before the war"	205
4262721526	Strata	one part of a whole	206
4262721527	Subsistence	supporting oneself at a minimum level	207
4262721528	Syncretic	blending together different belief systems	208
4262721529	Tariff	a tax or duty that must be paid on particular imports and exports	209
4262721530	Teleology	the study of natural phenomenons	210
4262721531	Terminal	something that has a definite end	211
4262721532	Territory	the land and waters that belong to a state	212
4262721533	Terrorism	the use of violence and threats to intimidate	213
4262721534	Textile	material that is suitable for weaving	214
4262721535	Theocracy	a government run by religious leaders	215
4262721536	Third World	undeveloped nations of the world	216
4262721537	Totalitarian	a centralized government that censors and doesn't tolerate any other parties	217
4262721538	Tradition	a long established way of thinking, acting, or practices	218
4262721539	Trust	confidence in someone or a large company trying to become a monopoly	219
4262721540	Union	the act of uniting two or more things	220
4262721541	Viceroy	a person appointed to rule as a deputy to the ruler	221
4262721542	the West	cultures and societies heavily influenced by and connected to Europe	222
4262721543	Working Class	persons working for wages and are in a social class	223
4262721544	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