AP Euro Terms Quiz Flashcards

4720725222	Monarchy	A form of government in which supreme authority is vested in a single and usually hereditary figure, such as a king	0
4720725534	Oligarchy	A government in which a small group exercise control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes	1
4720727083	Autocracy	A government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner	2
4720727672	Despotism	A form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. May be as an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy	3
4720728977	Absolutism	A system of government in which the ruler claims sole and uncontestable power	4
4720729272	Liberalism	Political philosophy of the 18th century that advocated representative government dominated by the propertied classes, minimal government interference in the economy, religious toleration, ans civil liberties such as freedom of speech	5
4720730344	Coservatism	Political philosophy of the 18th century that supported legitimate monarchies, landed aristocracies, and established churches. Gradual change in the established social order	6
4720730830	Totalitarianism	A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens	7
4720731433	Balance of Power	A strategy to maintain an equilibrium, in which weak countries join together to match or exceed the power of a stronger country	8
4720731766	Capitalism	An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production ,with the goal of making a profit	9
4720732086	Socialism	An economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy	10
4720732597	Communism	A revolutionary socialist movement to crate a classless, moneyless and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production	11
4720733804	Patronage	The support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another	12
4720734323	Mercantilism	Economic philosophy calling for close government regulation of the economy. Maximize exports and limit imports. Accumulation of gold and silver.	13
4720735204	Columbian Exchange	The interchange of plants, animals, diseases, and human populations between the Old World and the New World	14
4720735566	Entrepreneur	An individual who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so	15
4720736139	Medieval/Middle Ages	5th to the 15th century. Began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and was followed by the Renaissance	16
4720737335	Feudalism	A system for structuring society. Three estates of the realm: The nobility, the clerics, and the peasantry bonds of manorialism	17
4720737336	Aristocracy	The highest social class in a particular social order	18
4720737562	Renaissance	Rebirth. A cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and spreading to the rest of Europe	19
4720738630	Gentry/Nobility	A social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges than members of most other classes in a society, membership typically being hereditary. Denotes "well-born and well-bred people." Connected to landed estates	20
4720740285	Peasantry	A member of the traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms	21
4720740817	Anti-Semitism	A prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage	22
4720741415	The Classics	The study of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (BC-AD 600)	23
4720742034	Vernacular	The everyday language of a region or country	24
4720742182	Iberian Peninsula	Located in the extreme southwest of Europe (Spain/Portugal)	25
4720742420	Balkan Peinsula	Located in Southeast Europe (Greece)	26
4720742589	Baltics	Countries east of the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)	27
4720742900	Low Countries	The coastal regions of north western Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg	28
4720743286	Papacy	The office of the Pope	29
4720743464	Reconquista	The centuries-long Christian "reconquest" of Spain from the Muslims	30
4720743721	Inquisition	A group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy (formal denial or doubt of a core doctrine of the Christian faith/Catholicism)	31
4720736681	Feudalism		32