AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards

Class Vocab (word of the day)

2107687140	Codify Law	collect laws in a given area to regularize them	0
2107689251	Dualistic Religion	a belief system with two opposing forces (usually good v.s. evil)	1
2107689906	Hegemony	state of being a supreme power	2
2107692611	Infastructure	the constructions that help to organize and manage a society	3
2107693868	Tributary System	when conquered people give their conquerors objects/money/people as a sign of submission	4
2107696663	Socioeconomic Divide	gab between the rich and the poor	5
2107701304	Hellenism	the spreading of Greek culture	6
2107702516	Economy of Scale	an economic system to nominate profit	7
2107704224	Syncretism	the mixing of different elements (cultures) to make a new product	8
2107706862	Economic Specialization	when a region/area is known for a specific economic activity or resource	9
2107709310	Sinification	the spread of Chinese culture	10
2107710302	Dar Al Islam	"House of Islam" place where Islam could be practiced	11
2107712481	"Spread by the Sword"	empire created by violence	12
2107715150	Civil Service Examination	Confucian based test to determine if someone is qualified to be a government employee	13
2107716655	Meritocracy	system in which people earn positions based on skills and knowledge instead of being handed down positions from family	14
2107720937	Commercialized Agriculture	when certain crops are grown exclusively for sale Ex: champa in Tang/Song China	15
2107725635	Guild	an organization of similarly skilled workers that function in unison	16
2107727580	Market Economy	a system in which people, not the government, control the buying and selling of goods	17
2107729465	Endemic	disease that spreads within a certain state or province Ex: dysentery in Army camps	18
2400120352	Epidemic	A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease within a community	19
2107738994	Pandemic	worldwide spread disease Ex: The Spanish Flu	20
2108903423	State-Building	-Anything refering to building and solidifying the government -creation of a governing structure - religion: Dar al Islam, laws (The Sharia) - political: infrastructure , Roman Roads - economic: Achaemenid, coins & taxation system	21
2134386001	Humanism	Characteristic of The Renaissance; the expressions of humans is greater/better than science	22
2134400923	Secular	Characteristic of The Renaissance; the moving away from religion, and thinking about the world	23
2134430404	Trading Post Empire	Civilization that focuses on economic gain rather than military or cultural conquest Ex: The Portuguese, British, and Spanish	24
2134472271	Joint Stock Company	When people contribute money together to sponsor a voyage with low risk and high rewards Ex: British East India Company and VOC	25
2134478423	Entrepot	Center for import/export; trading center	26
2134490090	The Colombian Exchange	Purposeful, or incidental, transfer of foods, animals, humans, diseases, and technology between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres	27
2134492836	Diaspora	Spreading of peoples from one location to the world	28
2144836100	Absolute Monarch	A king or queen that had total control over a state	29
2144844667	Divine Right	Belief that Absolute Monarchs had that their right to rule came from God himself	30
2144850372	Republic	An elected democracy (indirect democracy)	31
2144858094	Constitutional Monarchy	When a king or queen is restricted by laws created by Parliament (legislature)	32
2144866483	Sovereignty	The ability for countries to govern themselves	33
396511900	Encomienda	Labor system in which a person who is given land has permission to enslave the Indiginous people there	34
333957405	Hacienda	(a.k.a. estanza/fazenda) an encomienda, most of the time is agriculturally based	35
122841502	Mita	Labor system in which a society has to give 1 out of every 7 men to work for a few months Ex: Incas in silver mines	36
847475630	Engenho	Labor system in which each enslaved person had a specific job Ex: Portuguese Sugar Production	37
2185500006	Autocracy	Government with absolute rule by one person Ex: Akbar in the Mughal Empire	38
2185500007	Succession	Refers to who is the rightful ruler after a given ruler	39
2221152527	Popular Sovereignty	The right to rule comes from the people	40
2221154582	Ideology	A coherent vision of human nature, human society, and the larger world that proposes dome particular form of political and social organization as ideal.	41
2246525920	Innovation	an improvemnet upon something previously invented Ex: Assembly line	42
2246525921	Invention	an original physical creation Ex: Steam engine	43
2252377683	Industrial Capitalism	An economic system that relies on investment in machines and technology that are used to increase production of marketable goods	44
2252389341	Mercantilism	An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests	45
2257377429	Corporation	An independent legal entity owned by shareholders.	46
2270679445	"Welfare" State	Where the government provides services for the people through large taxes paid by the people	47
2270679446	Capitalism	1.) Private (individuals/companies) control the economy/factors of production 2.) Goal is to maximize profit 3.) Competition Private ownership of the factors of production	48
2270679447	Communism	Public ownership of the factors of production through a revolution of the workers (proletariat)	49
2270679448	Socialism	-A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production. -Some private ownership of the factors of production	50
2289665812	Capitulation	when territory or other consessions are given from one state to another	51
2289665813	Extraterritoriality	when foreigners are granted privileges in land belonging to another state	52
2297114235	Nation	group of people that have a common identity	53
2297115287	Nationalism	people are bound together and want to further their group	54
2309994963	Serf	Laborer usually agricultural that is bonded to the land he/she works on in exchange for the landowners protection Ex: Russia and Feudalistic Europe	55
2309994964	Westernization	When one state is influenced by the ideas and culture of Western Europe and the U.S.A	56
2309999003	Colonialism	Sending of colonists to settle new lands and the political, social, economic, and cultural structures that enabled imperial powers to dominate subject lands.	57
2310002156	Imperialism	Domination of European powers (and later the US and Japan) over subject lands in the larger world	58
2319760818	Ethnocentrism	Belief that ones culture is superior to anothers culture Ex: French colonizing missions	59
2319760819	Social Darwinism	Theory of survival of the fittest applied to society	60
2325285334	Jingoism	aggressive imperialism / nationalism, willing to use force if needed to expand your country	61
2325285335	Jingo	a person that condones aggressive imperialism / nationalism, willing to use force if needed to expand your country Ex: Teddy Roosevelt	62
2325285336	Sphere of Influence	area controlled for specific economic reasons	63
2325285337	Protectorate	When an area is given indirect rule but protected by an imperial power	64
2345812799	Banana Republic	A nation dependent on one crop / product with a very divided society between a small group of rich and large group of poor workers; set up all across Ex: Central America in 1800-1900s due to economic imperialism	65
2345812800	Demographics	Characteristics, such as age gender income, by which people are divided into particular social categories.	66
2400072686	Fascism	A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition	67
2400073968	Militarism	A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war	68
2423085713	Self-Determination	Belief that a national group has the ability to create its own state	69
2423085714	Total War	The engaement and mobilization of all parts of society for the war effort Ex: Germany targeting civilians with Zepplins	70
2423085715	Homefront	How civilians and other non-military parts of society helped the war effort Ex: Selling of bonds by the US	71
2400074902	Chauvinism	Fanatical patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory; undue or biased devotion to any group, cause, etc.	72
2400078446	Ultranationalism	Extreme nationalism often associated with fascism; a militant right-wing orientation typically characterized by militarism, racial bigotry, and xenophobia.	73
2400079478	Xenophobia	a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers	74
2400080062	Psychoanalytics	behavior is motivated by unconcious desires	75
2400111425	Surrealism	An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images emphasized the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control.	76
2400142521	anti-Semitic	To have hostility to Jews as individuals, to Judaism as a religion, to Jews as a group.	77
2500289949	Neoimperialism	A new form of imperialism in which instead of controlling countries through direct political and military control they are controlled through money and their economy Ex: Dollar Diplomacy in the Carribbean	78
2500289950	Export-Based Economy	An economy structures around the cultivation and trade of one or two natural resources Ex: South African diamond trade	79