AP world history Flashcards

4823925898	B.C.E	Before the Christian Era-often punctuated; before the common era	0
4823925899	C.E	Christian era-often punctuated; common era	1
4823925900	Abdicate	To fail to do what is required by a duty or responsibility	2
4823925901	Accession	The act or process by which someone rises to a powerul and important position	3
4823925902	Aesthetic	Of or relating to art or beauty	4
4823925903	Agrarian	Of or relating to farms or farming	5
4823925904	Amenities	Something that makes life easier or more pleasant	6
4824007022	Anarchy	A situation of confusion and wild behavior in which the people in a country; group, organization, etc.. Are not controlled by laws	7
4824007023	Animism	The belief that all plants, animals and objects have spirits	8
4824007024	Antiquity	Ancient times	9
4824007025	Appeasement	To make someone pleased or less angry by giving or saying something desired	10
4824007026	Aristocracy	The highest social class in some countries: the people who have special titles	11
4824007027	Asceticism	Relating to or having a strict and simple way of living that avoids physical pleasure	12
4824007028	Assimilate	To learn something do that it is fully understood and can be used	13
4824007029	Authoritarian	Expecting or requiring people to obey rules or laws	14
4824007030	Autocracy	A form of government in which a country is ruled by a person or group with total power	15
4824007031	Barbarism	Cruel and violent behavior or very rude behavior	16
4824007032	Bureaucracy	A large group of people who are involved in running a government but who are not elected	17
4824007033	City-state	A state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it	18
4827316042	civic	Of or relating to a city or town or the people who live there	19
4827320866	classical	of a kind that has been respected for a long time	20
4827331160	colonial	of or relating to a colony; owning or made up of colonies	21
4827332339	commerce	activities that relate to the buying and selling of goods and services	22
4827334725	communal	shared or used by members of a group or community	23
4827336691	concubine	an unmarried woman who has sex with a man and lives with the man and his wife or wives	24
4827339089	conscription	the practice of ordering people by law to serve in the armed forces	25
4827342462	cosmopolitan	a person who has lived in and knows about many different parts of the world	26
4827347909	coup	a brilliant sudden and usually highly and successful stroke or act	27
4827350482	demography	the study or changes that occur over a period of time in human populations	28
4827352396	despot	a ruler who contains total power and who often uses that power in cruel and unfair ways.	29
4827359366	diaspora	A group of people who live outside the area in which they had lived for a long time or in which their ancestors have lived	30
4827362308	dissent	to publicly disagree with an official opinion, decision, or set of beliefs	31