AP World History Jargon Flashcards

2442111304	Abolition	The ending of slavery	0
2442111305	Absolutism	Complete and unrestricted power in government	1
2442111306	Administer	To manage affairs and have executive charge	2
2442111307	Administration	The management of any business or organization	3
2442111308	Admonish	to caution against something or to remind	4
2442111309	-Archy	meaning Rule or Government	5
2442111310	Argue	a discussion involving different points of view: a debate	6
2442111311	Asceticism	The practice of self denial	7
2442111312	Authoritarian	Complete obedience to government	8
2442111313	Balance of Power	No single nation is strong enough to dominate another because of this kind of distribution	9
2442111314	Communism	The system of communal property and all the economic activity is controlled by the state	10
2442111315	Conjuncture	a critical combination of events or circumstances	11
2442111316	Conscript	to force someone to join the military	12
2442111317	Conservative	holding to traditional values and is cautious about changes	13
2442111318	Constitutionalism	when an established set of principles governs a state	14
2442111319	Consumer	a person that uses a commodity or service	15
2442111320	Consumerism	The concept that an ever expanding consumption of goods is really beneficial for the economy	16
2442111321	Conflate	To combine two or more texts into one	17
2442111322	Context	the circumstances of the situation (the setting)	18
2442111323	Continent	A main landmass of the globe: there are 7 of them	19
2442111324	Convention	A meeting of representatives to discuss matters of concern	20
2442111325	Conventional	something that is acceptable to society	21
2442111326	Converge	To come together	22
2442111327	Converse	an opposite	23
2442111328	Corporation	A group of individuals working together in the name of law but still having their own individual lives outside of their business	24
2442111329	Corollary	a natural consequence	25
2442111330	Correlation	a mutual relationship between two or more things	26
2442111331	Cosmopolitan	a person who is free from local attachments or biases and is a citizen of the world	27
2442111332	Coup d'etat	a political upheaval	28
2442111333	-Cracy	a suffix meaning governing body	29
2442111334	Craft	an art, trade, or special skill	30
2442111335	Credit	to obtain goods and services before payment because of trust	31
2442111336	Currency	something that is used as means of exchange	32
2442111337	Darwinism	the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest	33
2442111338	Empire	a group of nations that were dominated and are now ruled over by an supreme authority	34
2442111339	Enlighten	to impart knowledge upon	35
2442111340	Entrepot	a commercial center where goods are received for distribution	36
2442111341	Era	a distinctive period of time	37
2442111342	Ethic	morals that pertain to a certain group of people	38
2442111343	Ethnic	a group sharing a common culture	39
2442111344	Ethno-	a prefix meaning race or culture	40
2442111345	Euro	a prefix meaning European	41
2442111346	Executive Branch	the branch of the US government that is responsible for carrying out the laws	42
2442111347	Fascism	a government led by a dictator that suppresses and controls	43
2442111348	Feminism	advocation of the rights of women	44
2442111349	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
2442111350	Fief	an estate of land granted by feudalism	46
2442111351	Filial	having to do with sons and daughters	47
2442111352	Fiscal	having to do with financial matters	48
2442111353	Forage	to search for food	49
2442111354	Frame of reference	criteria which judgements or measurements can be based off of	50
2442111355	Free trade	trade between countries free from governmental restrictions	51
2442111356	Frontier	the land that isn't quite settled on the outskirts of settled region	52
2442111357	Fundamental	a form of Protestant Christianity that believes in the strict literal adherence to the Bible	53
2442111358	Genocide	the deliberate and systematic annihilation of a certain group of people	54
2442111359	Geo	a prefix meaning earth	55
2442111360	Globalization	growth to a worldwide scale	56
2442111361	Government	the system in which a state is governed by	57
2442111362	-graphy	a suffix meanig drawing, writing, or recording	58
2442111363	Mandate	A command from a superior court to a lower one	59
2442111364	Manifest	to make clear or evident	60
2442111365	Manifesto	a public declaration of intentions	61
2442111366	Manuscript	something that is written by hand	62
2442111367	Maritime	pertaining to the sea	63
2442111368	Materiel	equipment required for an operation to be accomplished	64
2442111369	Medieval	relating to the Middle Ages	65
2442111370	Mercantilism	A belief in the economical theory that trade generates wealth	66
2442111371	Meta-	a prefix meaning after or beyond	67
2442111372	Metropolitan	relating to a capital city and its surrounding areas	68
2442111373	Middle class	between the high and low classes in rank or standing	69
2442111374	Migration	the act of moving from one place to another	70
2442111375	Militarism	the belief that a country should have a really strong military that is prepared to protect aggressively at any time	71
2442111376	Minister	a person authorized to conduct religious worship	72
2442111377	Monastery	a place of residents occupied by people who live in seclusion under religious vows	73
2442111378	Monogamy	marriage to only one person at a time	74
2442111379	Monopoly	exclusive control of a commodity or service	75
2442111380	Monsoon	a seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean	76
2442111381	Peasant	people who are farmers of low social rank	77
2442111382	Peonage	making someone your slave as a way of paying off their debt to you	78
2442111383	Period	a large interval of time	79
2442111384	Pilgrim	a person who journeys long distance	80
2442111385	Pilgrimage	a journey to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion	81
2442111386	Pragmatic	dealing with things sensibly and realistically based on logic not theory	82
2442111387	Priest	A person who performs religious rites	83
2442111388	Primary	first or of highest rank	84
2442111389	Principle	a fundamental doctrine	85
2442111390	Proletariat	the working class	86
2442111391	Propaganda	falsely persuasive advertisement	87
2442111392	Protectorate	a state controlled and protected by another	88
2442111393	Proto	a prefix meaning foremost	89
2442111394	Province	a division of certain territories	90
2442111395	Psycho	a prefix that means having to do with the human mentality	91
2442111396	Qualify	to be entitled to something because of previous experience	92
2442111397	Quandary	a state of being perplexed or uncertain	93
2442111398	Quantify	to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of	94
2442111399	Quantity	a particular amount of anything	95
2442111400	Quest	a search to find something	96
2442111401	Shaman	a person who is a middleman between the natural and supernatural worlds	97
2442111402	Sino	a prefix meaning Chinese	98
2442111403	Social Darwinism	survival of the fittest advocated by laissez-faire	99
2442111404	Social Democracy	a gradual and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means	100
2442111405	Socialism	a social organization where the rich give to the poor (robin hooding)	101
2442111406	Socio-economic	the combination of social and economic factors	102
2442111407	Debit	An item of debt recorded in an account	103
2442111408	Debt	something that is owed	104
2442111409	Deficit	an amount of money that falls short of the required amount	105
2442111410	Deforestation	clearing away trees	106
2442111411	Deism	the belief of God because of logical reasons- not supernatural ones	107
2442111412	Deity	a supreme being	108
2442111413	Democracy	government by the people	109
2442111414	Destiny	a predetermined and usually inevitable course of events	110
2442111415	Determinism	all events, including human action, are determined by external forces not one's own will	111
2442111416	Dictator	a person who has absolute power	112
2442111417	Diffuse	to spread out	113
2442111418	Diplomacy	managing international affairs	114
2442111419	Divinity	having to do with a God or a supreme being	115
2442111420	Doctrine	a belief or set of beliefs held by a certain party or group	116
2442111421	Document	any written item	117
2442111422	Dogma	a doctrine that is known to be true and is not questioned	118
2442111423	Domestic	having to do with home or local affairs	119
2442111424	Draft	the first version of a writing or a conscript for military service	120
2442111425	Dualism	the belief that there are two divine principle: good and evil	121
2442111426	Dynasty	a sequence of rulers from the same family or group	122
2442111427	Eclectic	something that is derived from many sources	123
2442111428	Economy	the management of resources	124
2442111429	Egalitarian	a belief in the equality of all people in every facet of life	125
2442111430	Elite	persons of the highest class	126
2442111431	Guild	an organization with related interests or goals who work to achieve mutual aid and protection	127
2442111432	Hegemony	one nation being more dominant than the others in their confederation	128
2442111433	Helio	a prefix meaning sun	129
2442111434	Hierarchy	a ranking system	130
2442111435	Historiography	a reliable narrative of history	131
2442111436	Hyper-	a prefix meaning over or excess	132
2442111437	Hypo-	a prefix meaning under or below	133
2442111438	Iberian	of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula	134
2442111439	Identity	a set of characteristics that one is known by	135
2442111440	Ideology	a system of thought for a certain group of people	136
2442111441	Imperialism	the expansion of one's rule over other territories	137
2442111442	incarnation	a physical embodiment of an idea or deity	138
2442111443	Indenture	someone who is forced to work because of a contract	139
2442111444	Independence	freedom from control	140
2442111445	Industrialism	a social or economic system built on manufacturing	141
2442111446	Inverse	something that is reversed in position	142
2442111447	-ism/-ist/-ize	suffixes denoting one who practices	143
2442111448	Judicial	having to do with a court or judge	144
2442111449	Junta	a military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force	145
2442111450	Kinship	a group of people who descended from the same ancestor	146
2442111451	Laissez-faire	the doctrine that says that government should not interfere in economic affairs except when necessary	147
2442111452	the Left	having to do with liberal or radical views in politics	148
2442111453	Legislature	the branch of the government that makes laws	149
2442111454	Legitimacy	something that is real and true	150
2442111455	Liberal	open minded to new things and is willing to discard old traditions	151
2442111456	-logy	a suffix having to do with science	152
2442111457	Malnutrition	lack of proper nutrition	153
2442111458	Mortality	the death rate	154
2442111459	Nation	the territory or country itself	155
2442111460	Nation-state	A country with a government who's population share a common identity.	156
2442111461	Nationalism	a devotion and loyalty toward one's country	157
2442111462	Neo-	a prefix meaning new	158
2442111463	NGO's	an abbreviation for non-government organizations	159
2442111464	Nobility	having to do with the aristocracy	160
2442111465	Nomad	a group of people that don't have a permanent home but moves about from place to place	161
2442111466	Nun	a woman member of a religious order bound by sacred religious vows	162
2442111467	Optimism	a tendency to look on the favorable side of events and expect favorable outcomes	163
2442111468	Oracle	a person who delivers highly regarded and important messages	164
2442111469	Oral	by mouth or spoken	165
2442111470	Orthodox	adhering to what is traditional and established, especially in religion	166
2442111471	Pacifism	opposition to war or violence	167
2442111472	Pagan	a person who believes in a religion that is not a world religion	168
2442111473	Paleo-	a prefix meaning old or ancient	169
2442111474	Pan-	a prefix meaning all	170
2442111475	Papacy	the government of the Roman Catholic Church	171
2442111476	Papal	having to do with the pope or the papacy	172
2442111477	Pastoral	having rural charm or domesticating animals	173
2442111478	Paternal	having to do with a father	174
2442111479	Patriarch	a male leader	175
2442111480	Patriarchy	a social system in which men are regarded as superior	176
2442111481	Patrician	an aristocrat	177
2442111482	Racism	the belief that one race is superior to another	178
2442111483	Radical	favoring the extremes	179
2442111484	Rational	agreeable, reasonable, sensible	180
2442111485	Rationale	the fundamental reasons for something	181
2442111486	Raw material	material in its natural form	182
2442111487	Rebel	a perso who resists any authority, control, or tradition	183
2442111488	Reform	to make changes in order to improve	184
2442111489	Regime	a system of rule or government	185
2442111490	Reincarnation	the rebirth of a soul in a new body	186
2442111491	Republic	A form of government in which citizens choose what leaders they want to represent them	187
2442111492	Revenue	the government's income	188
2442111493	Revolt	an organized opposition to authority	189
2442111494	the Right	having conservative beliefs	190
2442111495	Rimland	the fringe of a country or region	191
2442111496	Rural	having to do with the country	192
2442111497	Russo-	a prefix meaning russia	193
2442111498	Sacred	religious devotion	194
2442111499	Scholastic	having to do with schools or education	195
2442111500	Secede	to withdraw from an alliance or union	196
2442111501	Secondary	next after the first	197
2442111502	Secular	worldly things with no religious connotations	198
2442111503	Sedentary	not moving	199
2442111504	Segregation	separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences	200
2442111505	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
2442111506	Sovereign	a monarch, king, or supreme ruler	202
2442111507	Sphere of Influence	when one nation has influence over others	203
2442111508	State	the condition of a person or thing because of particular circumstances	204
2442111509	Status Quo Ante Bellum	a phrase meaning "the situation as it was before the war"	205
2442111510	Strata	one part of a whole	206
2442111511	Subsistence	supporting oneself at a minimum level	207
2442111512	Syncretic	blending together different belief systems	208
2442111513	Tariff	a tax or duty that must be paid on particular imports and exports	209
2442111514	Teleology	the study of natural phenomenons	210
2442111515	Terminal	something that has a definite end	211
2442111516	Territory	the land and waters that belong to a state	212
2442111517	Terrorism	the use of violence and threats to intimidate	213
2442111518	Textile	material that is suitable for weaving	214
2442111519	Theocracy	a government run by religious leaders	215
2442111520	Third World	undeveloped nations of the world	216
2442111521	Totalitarian	a centralized government that censors and doesn't tolerate any other parties	217
2442111522	Tradition	a long established way of thinking, acting, or practices	218
2442111523	Trust	confidence in someone or a large company trying to become a monopoly	219
2442111524	Union	the act of uniting two or more things	220
2442111525	Viceroy	a person appointed to rule as a deputy to the ruler	221
2442111526	the West	cultures and societies heavily influenced by and connected to Europe	222
2442111527	Working Class	persons working for wages and are in a social class	223
2442111528	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