AP World History Quiz #1 Flashcards

8782577542	aristocracy	the highest class in certain societies, the nobility	0
8782581560	autonomy	the right to make one's own decisions in a particular matter	1
8782585896	centralized	when control is concentrated under one authority	2
8782591452	coerce	to force someone to do something	3
8782594031	commerce	the activity of buying and selling	4
8782596894	consequence	a (positive or negative) result of an action or event	5
8782602837	conservative	holding to traditional values and attitudes	6
8782608725	consolidate	to make something stronger; to combine a number of parts into a coherent whole	7
8782616286	contemporary	at the same time as something else; belonging or occurring in the present	8
8782622826	cultural diffusion	the spread of beliefs and social activities from one group to another	9
8782663325	decentralized	when control is shared among many different people	10
8782666739	demographic	relating to the structure of populations	11
8782673126	divine	of, from, or like god	12
8782675832	egalitarian	equal	13
8782680194	emigration	the movement of people out of a country	14
8782696313	epidemic	a widespread occurrence of a disease at a particular time	15
8782704283	ethnocentrism	believing one's own culture or ethnicity to be superior to others	16
8782723306	hegemony	leadership or influence by one country or social group over others	17
8782740964	hereditary	passed down from parents to children	18
8782743933	heterogeneous	of different kinds	19
8782747137	hierarchy	a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority	20
8782761978	homogenous	of the same kind; alike	21
8782764096	ideology	a system of ideas that forms the basis of philosophy or policy	22
8782777734	infrastructure	the physical and organizational structures that make a society possible	23
8782785205	impediment	something that gets in the way of something else, an obstacle	24
8782790273	implication	the conclusion that can be inferred from something; a possible future event or result	25
8782799943	influx	an arrival or entry of large numbers of people or things	26
8782806493	innate	inborn or natural	27
8782809163	liberal	more open to new behavior or opinions OR favoring maximum freedom in political and social life	28
8782819782	market	the economy of a country in which buying or selling happens	29
8782834887	monarchy	a society with one single ruler	30
8782841152	nation-state	a country whose citizens share a similar language or descent	31
8782850082	oligarchy	a society ruled by a small group of people	32
8782862318	orthodox	in line with what is generally or traditionally accepted as right or true	33
8782869534	patriarchy	a system of society in which the men hold the power	34
8782876190	persecute	to be hostile towards someone or to mistreat them	35
8782883456	prior	refers to something that happened earlier	36
8782894231	prominent	very noticeable or obvious	37
8782898340	revenue	income	38
8782902000	secular	relating to non-religious things	39
8782905730	sovereignty	supreme power or authority; the authority of a state to govern itself	40
8782910979	state-building	the process of strengthening a government's ability to function	41
8782920543	subsequent	refers to something that happened next	42
8782927092	syncretism	the merging of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought	43
8782934179	tariff	a tax on imports or exports	44
8782937000	tendency	a likelihood of doing something	45
8782941202	tenet	a main principle or belief of a religion or philosophy	46
8782945576	theocracy	a system of government in which the ruler claims to be ruling with the approval of god	47
8782954248	trans-regional	referring to things that move across different regions or areas	48
8782960275	urban	relating to cities	49