Review Vocabulary and terms AP World History Flashcards
Review Vocabulary AP World History
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| 7375811664 | eradication | To completely eliminate or get rid of. | 0 | |
| 7375814297 | injunction | A law or a regulation against doing something. | 1 | |
| 7375819771 | edict | a command, usually from a king or a dictator. | 2 | |
| 7375825712 | transgression | A violation or a sin. | 3 | |
| 7375829365 | sieges | attacks on a fortress. One lays siege to a castle. | 4 | |
| 7375836327 | fundamentalism | To believe literally in a doctrine. Used to describe religions that strictly believe that their holy books or laws are the ONLY truth | 5 | |
| 7375847978 | eclectic | varied or variety | 6 | |
| 7375852758 | puritanical | originally describing a strict sect of Protestant Christianity in England, New England, and the Netherlands, also describes anyone who follows their moral code strictly. | 7 | |
| 7375868220 | schismatic | divided, adjective form of schism. There was an original schism between Catholic Christianity and Greek Orthodox Christianity. There is also one in Islam between Sunni and Shia. | 8 | |
| 7375882689 | syncretic | varied in a religious sense. Any philosophy that is Syncretic contains many different beliefs. | 9 | |
| 7375889457 | periphery | The edge or the boundary. This is the noun form. | 10 | |
| 7375900322 | virulent | highly infectious, and fast moving, like a deadly virus. | 11 | |
| 7375904571 | Sikhism | Sect of Hinduism founded in the 16th century. Sikhs do not believe in caste, but do believe in reincarnation and karma. Men in this sect wear turbans. | 12 | |
| 7375918522 | Ashoka | Founding King of the Mauryan dynasty in ancient India. | 13 | |
| 7375922997 | Cossack | Escaped serfs in Siberia in Russia who formed tribal groups dedicated to freedom. Some of the Cossacks worked as the police for the Tsars of Russia. | 14 |