AP World History Summer Assignment Flashcards

7150889710	B.C.E.	"Before the Common Era"	0
7150889711	C.E.	Common Era or Current Era	1
7150889712	abdicate	to give up a role in authority or office	2
7150889713	accession	the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office, etc.	3
7150889714	aesthetic	concerned with the study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty	4
7150889715	agrarian	any society whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland	5
7150889716	amenities	a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place.	6
7150889717	anarchy	a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority	7
7150889718	animism	the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena	8
7150889719	antiquity	the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages (great age)	9
7150889720	appeasement	to make or preserve peace with a nation, group, or person by giving in to their demands	10
7150889721	aristocracy	the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices	11
7150889722	asceticism	a strict and simple way of living that avoids physical pleasure	12
7150889723	assimilate	take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully	13
7150889724	authoritarian	favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom	14
7150889725	autocracy	a system of government by one person with absolute power	15
7150889726	barbarism	absence of culture and civilization	16
7150889727	bureaucracy/ bureaucrats	a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives	17
7150889728	city-state	a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state	18
7150889729	civic	of or relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal	19
7150889730	classical	of or relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture	20
7150889731	colonial	characteristic of a colony or colonies	21
7150889732	commerce	activities that relate to the buying and selling of goods and services	22
7150889733	communal	conflict) between different communities, especially those having different religions or ethnic origins	23
7150889734	concubine	mistress	24
7150889735	conscription	compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service; drafting	25
7150889736	cosmopolitan	familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures	26
7150889737	coup	a notable or successful stroke or move	27
7150889738	demography/ demographic	demography is the study of human populations and how they change. demographic is a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.	28
7150889739	despot	a ruler who has total power and who often uses that power in cruel and unfair ways	29
7150889740	diaspora	a large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world	30
7150889741	dissent	to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority	31
7150889742	dissident	a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state	32
7150889743	domestic/domesticate	domesticated is tame, domestic is of or relating to the home.	33
7150889744	dynasty/dynastic	a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group	34
7150889745	edict	an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority	35
7150889746	egalitarian	the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.	36
7150889747	elite	a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities	37
7150889748	emigrate	leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.	38
7150889749	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
7150889750	ethnocentric	evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture	40
7150889751	feudalism	a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return	41
7150889752	genocide	the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation	42
7150889753	gentry	people of good social position, the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth	43
7150889754	guild	associations of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town	44
7150889755	hierarchy	a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority	45
7150889756	hominids	members of the family of humans, Hominidae, which consists of all species on our side of the last common ancestor of humans and living apes	46
7150889757	homogenous	of the same kind	47
7150889758	ideology	a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy	48
7150889759	imperial/imperialism	a policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world	49
7150889760	indigenous	native	50
7150889761	infrastructure	structures, systems, and facilities serving a country, city, or area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function	51
7150889762	lineage	ancestry or pedigree	52
7150889763	linguistic	scientific study of language	53
7150889764	manifest	readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; obvious	54
7150889765	maritime	connected with the sea	55
7150889766	martial	warlike	56
7150889767	matrilineal	kinship with the mother or the female line	57
7150889768	mercenary	a soldier who is paid by a foreign country to fight in its army	58
7150889769	monarchy	A system of government in which one person reigns, usually a king or queen. The authority, or crown, in a monarchy is generally inherited.	59
7150889770	monopoly/monopolize	complete control of the entire supply of goods or of a service in a certain area or market	60
7150889771	monotheism	belief that there is only one God	61
7150889772	mystical	mystics or religious mysticism	62
7150889773	nation-state	a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent	63
7150889774	neo	new	64
7150889775	Neolithic	New Stone Age	65
7150889776	nomadic	anything that involves moving around a lot	66
7150889777	oligarchy	a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution	67
7150889778	pantheon	all the gods of a people or religion collectively	68
7150889779	papal/papacy	the office or authority of the pope	69
7150889780	parliament/parliamentary system	a system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature	70
7150889781	pastoral	concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance	71
7150889782	patriarchal	characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men	72
7150889783	patrilineal	relationship to the father or descent through the male line	73
7150889784	patronage	the support given by a patron	74
7150889785	peasant	A farmer or agricultural worker of low status	75
7150889786	pharaoh	a ruler in ancient Egypt	76
7150889787	piety/pious	Piety: the quality of being religious or reverent Pious: devoutly religious	77
7150889788	polity	any kind of political entity	78
7150889789	polygamy	the custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time	79
7150889790	polytheism	belief in more than one god	80
7150889791	proselytize	to induce someone to convert to one's faith	81
7150889792	provincial	a province of a country or empire	82
7150889793	regent	a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign	83
7150889794	republic	a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president	84
7150889795	rhetoric/rhetorical	Rhetoric: the art of speaking or writing effectively Rhetorical: concerned with the art of rhetoric	85
7150889796	sedentary	tending to spend much time seated	86
7150889797	serf	an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate	87
7150889798	Sharia	the religious legal system governing the members of the Islamic faith	88
7150889799	Sinification	term used for the spread of Chinese culture	89
7150889800	state	a nation or territory	90
7150889801	steppe	a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia	91
7150889802	stratification	the state of having many layers	92
7150889803	Sub-Saharan	from or forming part of the African regions south of the Sahara desert	93
7150889804	subordinate	lower in rank or position	94
7150889805	succession	a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other	95
7150889806	syncretism	the combination of different forms of belief or practice	96
7150889807	textiles	a type of cloth or woven fabric	97
7150889808	theocracy	a government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided	98
7150889809	theology	he study of the nature of God and religious belief	99
7150889810	totalitarian	controlling the people of a country in a very strict way with complete power that cannot be opposed	100
7150889811	tributary state	a state that is subordinate to a more powerful neighbour	101
7150889812	tyranny	cruel and oppressive government or rule	102
7150889813	urban/urbanize	characteristic of a city or town	103
7150889814	usurp	take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force	104
7150889815	vernacular	the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region	105