AP World History Flashcards

6999970214	B.C.E, BC	(Before Common Era) or (Before Christ) the time period before the assumed birth year of Jesus.	0
6999984167	C.E, AD	(Common Era) or (Anno Domini) the time period after the birth of Jesus	1
7000161780	Abdicate	fail to fulfill or undertake (a responsibility or duty).	2
7000161781	Accession	the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president.	3
7000163166	Aesthetic	a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste	4
7000164401	Agrarian	a person who advocates a redistribution of landed property, especially as part of a social movement.	5
7000204764	Amenities	a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place.	6
7000204765	Anarchy	a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.	7
7000205752	Animism	the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.	8
7000205753	Antiquity	the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages (Great Age)	9
7000206845	Appeasement	a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict	10
7000206846	Aristocracy	the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.	11
7000210955	Asceticism	is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.(frugal lifestyle)	12
7000212811	Assimilate	Take in a new idea and fully understand it.	13
7000225706	Authoritarian	favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.	14
7000225707	Autocracy	a system of government by one person with absolute power.	15
7000226654	Barbarism	absence of culture and civilization.	16
7000230181	Bureaucracy/Bureaucrats	a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.	17
7000526730	City-State	a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state	18
7000526731	Civics	the study of the rights and duties of citizenship.	19
7000527956	Classical	between about the year 1730 and the year 1820	20
7000527957	Colonial	relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies.	21
7000527958	Commerce	an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries or between different parts of the same country trade; business	22
7000529292	Communal	. shared by all members of a community; for common use	23
7000593831	Concubine	a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives.	24
7005750749	Conscription	compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.	25
7005750750	Cosmopolitan	familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures.	26
7005755339	Coup	a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.	27
7005757669	Demography/Demographic	Demography is the science of populations.three main demographic processes: birth, migration, and aging (including death).	28
7005758714	Despot	a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat.	29
7005758715	Diaspora	the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity.	30
7005758716	Dissent	the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held.	31
7005759992	Dissident	a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state	32
7005759993	Domestic/Domesticate	existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international./tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce	33
7005762027	Dynasty/Dynastic	a series of rulers from one family./relating to a succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field.	34
7005762028	Edict	an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority.	35
7005762029	Egalitarian	relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.	36
7005763087	Elite	a group of persons exercising the major share of authority or influence within a larger group	37
7005763088	Emigrate	leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.	38
7005764144	Epic	a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.	39
7005765941	Ethnocentric	evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture.	40
7005765942	Feudalism	a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor.	41
7005765943	Genocide	the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.	42
7005767700	Gentry	A group of people born into the high class "pure-bred"	43
7005767701	Guild	an association of artisans or merchants who oversee the practice of their craft in a particular town.	44
7005769316	Hierarchy	a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.	45
7005769317	Hominids	members are known as great apes[note 1] or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates	46
7005770752	Homogenous	similar in position, structure, and evolutionary origin but not necessarily in function.	47
7005776715	Ideology	a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.	48
7005777893	Imperial/Imperialism	a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.	49
7005789335	Indigenous	originating or occurring naturally in a particular place	50
7005789336	Infrastructure	the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.	51
7005790198	Lineage	lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.	52
7005790199	Linguistic	relating to language	53
7005790200	Manifest	clear or obvious to the eye or mind.	54
7005791629	Maritime	connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity.	55
7005791630	Martial	of or appropriate to war; warlike.	56
7005791631	Matrilineal	of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.	57
7005792559	Mercenary	a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or party to the conflict and is motivated to take part in the hostilities by desire for private gain	58
7005800264	Monarchy	a form of government in which a group, usually a family called the dynasty, embodies the country's national identity and one of its members, called the monarch, exercises a role of sovereignty	59
7005803807	Monopoly/Monopolize	the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.	60
7005803808	Monotheism	the belief that there is only one God.	61
7005803809	Mystical	relating to mystics or religious mysticism	62
7005805530	Nation-state	a type of state that joins the political entity of a state to the cultural entity of a nation, from which it aims to derive its political legitimacy to rule and potentially its status as a sovereign state	63
7005805531	Neo	a modified form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism.	64
7005805532	Neolithic	Period or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC	65
7005807497	Nomadic	people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.	66
7005808482	Oligarchy	a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.	67
7005808483	Pantheon	a temple dedicated to all the gods.	68
7005810509	Papal/Papacy	of or relating to a pope or to the Roman Catholic Church	69
7005814412	Parliament/Parliamentary System	a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislative branch	70
7005814413	Pastoral	is a lifestyle of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture	71
7005814414	Patriarchal	Dominated by men.	72
7005816839	Patrilineal	relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line	73
7005816840	Patronage	the support given by a patron	74
7005816849	Peasant	a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation	75
7005818411	Pharaoh	the common title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt	76
7005818412	Piety/Pious	the quality of being religious or reverent.	77
7005820099	Polity	a form or process of civil government or constitution.	78
7005820100	Polygamy	the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time.	79
7005823137	Polytheism	the belief in or worship of more than one god.	80
7005823138	Proselytize	convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.	81
7005824810	Provincial	concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.	82
7005826630	Regent	a person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor or is absent or incapacitated.	83
7005826631	Republic	a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.	84
7005829732	Rhetoric/Rhetorical	the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques./relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric.	85
7005829733	Sedentary	tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive.	86
7005831162	Serf	an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.	87
7005831163	Sharia	Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet prescribing both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties for law breaking.	88
7005831164	Sinification	the process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society.	89
7005832631	State	the territory, or one of the territories, of a government.	90
7005832632	Steppe	an extensive plain, especially one without trees.	91
7005834028	Stratification	a stratified state or appearance	92
7005834029	Sub-Saharan	the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.	93
7005837598	Subordinate	a person under the authority or control of another within an organization.	94
7005837599	Succession	a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other	95
7005838446	Syncretism	the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.	96
7005838447	Textiles	a type of cloth or woven fabric.	97
7005839642	Theocracy	a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives	98
7005839643	Theology	the study of the nature of God and religious belief.	99
7005841319	Totalitarian	relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.	100
7005841320	Tributary State	is subordinate to a more powerful neighbor	101
7005842851	Tyranny	cruel and oppressive government or rule.	102
7005842852	Urban/Urbanize	in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town./make or become urban in character.	103
7005844216	Usurp	take a position of power or importance illegally or by force.	104
7005844217	Vernacular	the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.	105