AP World History Vocab Flashcards

7854487800	hegemony	influence or dominance over	0
7854487801	stratified	layered/leveled	1
7854487802	ephemeral	comes and goes away quickly	2
7854487803	sagacious	wise	3
7854487804	apocryphal	May or may not be actually true (believable)	4
7854487805	auspicious	indicating a favorable outcome (good start)	5
7854487806	capricious	fickle, easily changed, random	6
7854487807	laconic	disinclined to speak	7
7854487808	ubiquity	seemingly everywhere	8
7854487809	dichotomy	2 opposites	9
7854487810	epicurean	luxury	10
7854487811	seraculture	production of silk	11
7854487812	avarice	insatiable greed	12
7854487813	jizya	tax that non Muslims pay	13
7854487814	martyr	someone that does for their faith or cause	14
7854487815	mercenary	military troops that fight for money not loyalty	15
7854487816	nascent	Very beginning stage of	16
7854487817	tributary	involves a lesser power paying money/respect to a higher power	17
7854487818	egalitarian	a society in which everyone is equal	18
7854487819	diaspora	spread of people from their native land (voluntary or involuntary)	19
7854487820	ascetic	without luxury	20
7854487821	byzantine	needlessly complicated	21
7918521735	corpulent	really big	22
7918523878	emporium	warehouse/shopping district	23
7918528140	facilitate	to assist in the process of something	24
7918531863	heretic	goes against the faith of majority	25
7918535720	impetus	motivating factor/driving force	26
7918538762	preclude	prevent from happening	27
7918542133	xenophobic	irrational fear of foreigners	28
8428437407	bellicose	belligerent/wanting to fight	29
8428443719	consternation	frustration and confusion	30
8428446123	magnanimous	kind hearted, generous	31
8428448770	perfunctory	going through the motions/not genuine	32
8428453213	precedent	decision/action that determines future decisions/actions	33
8428460862	usurp	take a position that is not rightfully yours	34
8428464989	they are the exception	mongols	35
8428480261	patriarchal	describes a society where men are dominant to women	36
8428523340	ziggurat	(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower sometimes surmounted by a temple	37
8473513132	linguafranca	business language	38
8473514249	latifundia	plantation in ancient Rome	39