AP World History Jargon Flashcards

7140606283	afro-	african	0
7140610270	agrarian	concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land	1
7140610973	anarchism/anarchy	a political philosophy that opposes government in any form, lack of government	2
7140611574	arable	suitable for growing crops	3
7140613293	archaic	ancient; old-fashioned	4
7140613893	aristocracy	a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility	5
7140615350	asceticism	severe self discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence	6
7140617062	authoritarian/-ism	a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power, like a dictator	7
7140618054	balance of trade	the difference between a country's total exports and total imports	8
7140619148	bureaucrat/bureaucratic/bureaucracy	a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials	9
7140620401	capital/capitalism	an economic system based on private ownership of capital (money for investment)	10
7140621749	capitol	a building where the legislative body of a republic, state, or country meets	11
7140625664	capitulate	to surrender	12
7140626271	cartel	a formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production	13
7140626809	casualty	a person killed or injured in a war or accident	14
7140628180	celibacy/celibate	Abstinence	15
7140628897	central/-centric	located in the center of a thing or place	16
7140631279	chauvinism	fanatical devotion to one's country, gender, religion, etc.	17
7140633895	class struggle	the ongoing conflict between those who own the means of production and those who work	18
7140634443	coerce/coercive	to force	19
7140634444	conjuncture	a combination of circumstances; a particular state of affairs	20
7140638295	conscript/conscription	a military draft	21
7140638296	constitutionalism	basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law	22
7140645458	consumer/consumerism	a person or organization that uses a product or service	23
7140645459	conflate	to combine into one	24
7143703020	contingency	a possible future event that must be prepared for or guarded against; possibility	25
7143705307	corollary	a direct or natural consequence or result	26
7143705971	cosmopolitan	worldly, sophisticated	27
7143707050	coup d'état	a sudden overthrow of the government	28
7143707871	-cracy	government by	29
7143708494	credit	an arrangement to receive cash, goods, or services now and pay for them in the future.	30
7143709697	debit	a sum withdrawn or subtracted from an account.	31
7143710712	deficit	an excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues	32
7143711228	demography	the scientific study of population characteristics	33
7143712069	diplomacy	the art of conducting negotiations with other countries	34
7143713489	dogma/dogmatic	an unproven principle or belief held to be true	35
7143713852	dualism	the presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact	36
7143715019	eclectic	choosing from various sources	37
7143715299	egalitarian	a person who believes in the equality of all people	38
7143715798	filial	relating to a son or daughter	39
7143716416	fiscal	financial	40
7143718280	forage	to search for food	41
7143718566	frame of reference	a system for specifying the precise location of objects in space and time	42
7143719643	free trade	international trade free of government interference	43
7143720241	frontier	a zone where no state exercises complete political control	44
7143722691	fundamentalism/fundamental	movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles	45
7143723215	genocide	deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group	46
7143723867	guild	a medieval organization of crafts workers or trades people.	47
7143724655	hegemony	the domination of one state or group over its allies	48
7143725246	helio-	relating to the sun	49
7143726527	historiography	the study of historical writing	50
7143727066	hyper-	excessive	51
7143727312	hypo-	below	52
7143727880	Iberian	includes spain and portugal	53
7143729098	indenture	an agreement binding an apprentice to a master	54
7143729876	-ism/-ist/-ize	a state or condition/ one who/ to make	55
7143730396	kin/kinship	a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption	56
7143732191	laissez-faire	policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy	57
7143733944	-lateral	side	58
7143734157	the "Left"/leftist	refers to a liberal political position	59
7143734741	-logy	study of	60
7143735174	malnutrition	faulty or inadequate diet	61
7143735946	maritime	relating to the sea	62
7143736550	materiel	military materials and equipment	63
7143736551	meso-	middle	64
7143736945	meta-	beyond, change	65
7143738764	metallurgy	the science of working with metals	66
7143738991	metropole/metropolitan	dominant part of an empire/ pertaining to a major city	67
7143739640	militarism	a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war	68
7143741041	monastery/monastic	a community of monks/ extremely plain or secluded	69
7143741042	monetary	of or relating to money or currency	70
7143743156	monogamy	marriage to only one person at a time	71
7143744276	monopoly	complete control of a product or business by one person or group	72
7143747128	nationalism	a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country	73
7143747465	neo-	new	74
7143747701	pacifism	opposition to all war	75
7143748019	pan-	all	76
7143748020	polygamy	the system of having more than one spouse at a time	77
7143749155	pragmatism/pragmatic	the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth, practical	78
7143749156	protectorate	a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power	79
7143752220	proto-	first	80
7143752651	push-pull factors	something pushes them away from their native country and pulls them toward a new place	81
7143754818	quandary	a state of perplexity or doubt	82
7143755238	raw material	a resource that can be used to make a product	83
7143755876	regime	a government in power	84
7143756309	the "Right"	conservative group of people	85
7143757524	russo-	russian	86
7143758729	secular	non-religious	87
7143759398	sedentary	inactive	88
7143760261	shaman/-ism	a person believed to have the power to summon spirits and heal the sick	89
7143760262	sino-	china	90
7143763070	social darwinism	the belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle	91
7143763807	social democracy	a political ideology favoring gradual transition from capitalism to socialism	92
7143764577	socialism	a system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production	93
7143766289	sovereignty/sovereign	the authority of a state to govern itself or another state	94
7143767619	sphere of influence	a foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities	95
7143769086	status quo ante bellum	how things were before the war	96
7143769968	stratification	systematic inequalities in things such as wealth, income, education, power, and status	97
7143770364	subsistence	the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level	98
7143770853	syncretic/syncretism	a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith	99
7143772067	tariff	tax on imports	100
7143772371	teleology/teleological	a system that interprets nature or the universe as having design or purpose	101
7143776952	theocracy	a government controlled by religious leaders	102
7143777752	totalitarian	having to do with a government in which one person, group, or party controls everything	103
7143777941	unanimity	oneness of mind; complete agreement	104
7143778216	veneration	great respect, special regard	105
7143778850	vernacular	everyday language of ordinary people	106
7143780046	viceroy	an official who rules in the name of the king or queen	107