AP world history Flashcards

7153779903	Abate	To reduce in amount,degree,intensity,etc	0
7153780514	Absolutism	The principle or exercise of complete unrestricted power in government	1
7153780515	Adjacent	Lying near,close, contagious	2
7153780879	Agrarian	Relating to land, land tenture or the division of landed property	3
7153780880	Agriculture	The production of crops, livestock, or poultry	4
7153781419	Anthropomorphic	Made to resemble human form	5
7153781960	Aristocracy	A class of person holding exceptional ranking and privileges	6
7153781961	Avarice	Insatiable greed for riches, miserly desire to gain and hoard health	7
7153782258	Bias	Unreasonably hostile feelings or opinions about a group	8
7153782729	Buddhism	A religion born in India by Buddha	9
7153782890	Bureaucracy	Government by many bureaus	10
7153782891	Capital	the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country, state	11
7153783079	Capitalism	an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporation	12
7153783080	Capitulate	to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms	13
7153783272	Centralized	to bring under one control, especially in government	14
7153784119	Charlatan	a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses	15
7153784351	Chattel	a movable article of personable property	16
7153784470	Chiefdom	the territory or people over which a chief rules	17
7153784710	Christianity	the christian religion, including the catholic, protestesnt, and eastern orthodox	18
7153785944	City-state	a city with its surrounding territory forming a independent state	19
7153785947	Civilization	the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced	20
7153786159	Clergy	the body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the christian churches	21
7153786160	Coerce	persuade an unwilling person, to do something by using force	22
7153786734	Colonialism	the policy or practice of acquiring full of partial political over another country	23
7153786735	Colony	the country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one	24
7153787002	Communism	a political theory derived from Karl Marx, all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid to their ability's	25
7153787898	Consfusianism	the system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples	26
7153787899	Copious	abundant in supply or quantity	27
7153788749	Culture	the art of other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively	28
7153789124	Daoism	a Chinese philosophy based on the writing of lao-tzu	29
7153789131	Deforestation	the action of clearing a wide area of trees	30
7153790298	Demography	the study of statistics	31
7153790299	Derive	obtain something from a specific sorce	32
7153791757	Diaspora	the dispersion of Jews outside of isreal	33
7153791758	Divine	of, form, or like god or a god	34
7153792481	Dynasty	a line of hereditary rulers of a country	35
7153792486	Economic	relating to economics or the economy	36
7153792660	Edict	an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority	37
7153792661	Egalitarian	relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities	38
7153795408	Empire	a large commercial or organization owned by or controlled by one person or group	39
7153796069	Encroach	intrude on	40
7153796070	Epidemic	a widespread of occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time	41
7153796075	Equitable	fair and impartial	42
7153796598	Ethnocentric	evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of ones own culture	43
7153796599	Feudalism	the nobility held lands from the crown in exchange for military services	44
7153797245	Forage	search widely for food or provisions	45
7153797246	Fundamental	forming a necessary base or core ; of central importance	46
7153798039	Genocide	the deliberate killing of a large group	47
7153798040	Globalization	the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale	48
7153798317	Hegemony	leadership or dominance	49
7153798592	Hierarchy	the system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority	50
7153798593	Hinduism	a major religion and cultural tradition of south Asia, developed from vedic religion	51
7153798785	Ideology	a system of ideas and ideals especially ones that form the basics of economic or political theory and policy	52
7153800280	Imperialism	a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force	53
7153800281	Incursion	an invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one	54
7153800866	Indentured servants	bind by an indenture as an apprentice or laborer	55
7153801354	Indigent	originating or occurring naturally in a particular place	56
7153801355	Industrial	relating to or characterized by industry	57
7153801966	Inflation	the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated	58
7153802077	Institutions	a society or organization founded for religious, educational, social, or similar purpose	59
7153805839	Intermediary	a person who acts as a link in between two people	60
7153805840	Judaism	the monotheistic religion of the jews	61
7153806326	Lambast	criticize someone harshily	62
7153806331	Legitimate	conforming to the laws or rules	63
7153806681	Malfeasance	wrongdoing, especially by a public official	64
7153806682	Manufacture	make something on a large scale using a machine	65
7153807818	Maritime	connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity	66
7153808244	Matriarchy	a system of society or or government ruled a woman or women	67
7153809663	Medieval	relating to the middle ages	68
7153809664	Merchant	a retail trader; a store owner	69
7153810052	Monarchy	a form of government with a monarch at the head	70
7153810851	Monotheism	the doctrine or belief that their is only one god	71
7153811488	Munificence	the quality or action of being lavishly generous	72
7153811489	Myriad	a countless or extremely great number	73
7153811610	Nation	a large aggregate of people united by common descent,history,culture,or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory	74
7153811881	Negligible	so small or unimportant as to be not worth considering	75
7153811882	Neolithic	relating to or denoting the later part of the stone age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implement prevailed	76
7153812312	Nobility	the quality of being noble in character, mind, birth, or rank	77
7153812313	Nomadic	living the life of a nomad; wandering	78
7153812480	Pagan	a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religion	79
7153812481	Pandemic	a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world	80
7153812613	Papacy	the office or authority of the pope	81
7153812614	Parity	the state or condition of being equal;especially regarding status or pay	82
7153812805	Pastoral	land or a farm used for a related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle	83
7153812806	Patriarchy	a system of society or government in which the father or the eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line	84
7153813234	Periodization	divide into periods	85
7153813235	Placate	make something less angry or hostile	86
7153813534	Plethora	a large or excessive amount of something	87
7153813661	Polytheism	the belief in or worship in more than one god	88
7153813662	Prehistoric	relating to or denoting the period before written records	89
7153813810	Prevalent	widespread in a particular area at a particular time	90
7153813898	Primary source	number one source of anything	91
7153813899	Prolific	plant, animal , or person producing much fruit or foliage or many offsprings	92
7153814322	Protestant	a member or follower of any western christian churches that are separate from the roman catholic church and follow the principles of the reformation , including the baptist, Presbyterian, and lutheran churches	93
7153814324	Prowess	skill or expertise in a particular activity or field	94
7153814478	Rational	based on or in accordance with reason or logic	95
7153814479	Reform	make changes in typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice	96
7153814755	Regime	a government, especially an authoritarian one	97
7153814756	Revolution	a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system	98
7153815008	Rural	in relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town	99
7153815009	Scribe	a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented	100
7153816271	Secondary source	coming after, less important than	101
7153816272	Secular	denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religion or spiritual basis	102
7153816440	Serf	an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lords estate	103
7153816542	Shaman	a person regarded as having access to, and influence in the world of good and bad spirits	104
7153816543	Slave	the person who is legal property of another person and is forced to obey them	105
7153816730	State	the particular condition that someone or something is in at a particular time	106
7153816731	Stratified	form or arrange into strata	107
7153816935	Subjective	based on or influenced by personal feelings, taste, or oponions	108
7153817253	Subjugate	bring under domination or control, especially by conquest	109
7153817360	Surplus	an amount of something left over when requirements have been met	110
7153817686	Syncretic	union of different religion	111
7153817692	Textile	a type of cloth or woven fabric	112
7153817849	Theocracy	a system of government in which priest rule in the name of god	113
7153817850	Tumultuous	making a loud confused noise	114
7153818092	Ubiquitous	present, appearing, or found everywhere	115
7153818093	Urban	in relating too, of characteristic of a town	116
7153818411	Veneration	great respect, reverence	117
7153818412	Xenophobic	having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other country	118