AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards

10388492420	BCE	Before the Common Era	0
10388494620	CE	Common Era	1
10388496711	Abdicate	to renounce the throne	2
10388498988	Accession	Coming to the possession of a right	3
10388511887	Aesthetic	Concerned with notions such as beautiful and ugly	4
10388518626	Agrarian	Pertaining to farmers	5
10388520264	Amenities	An agreeable way or manner	6
10388522901	Anarchy	A state of society without government or law	7
10388525597	Antiquity	the quality of being ancient	8
10388535028	Animism	The belief that natural objects have souls	9
10388537284	Appeasement	To yield to the demands of something/someone sometimes at the expense of justice	10
10388546020	Aristocracy	government by those considered to be the best or most able people in the state	11
10388549510	Asceticism	Suggesting the practice of self-discipline typically for religious reasons	12
10388553817	Assimilate	To bring conformity (adapt or adjust)	13
10388556460	Authoritarian	Enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of freedom	14
10388566006	Autocracy	Government where one person has unlimited authority over others	15
10388568310	Barbarism	Absence of culture and civilization	16
10388585136	Bureaucracy	The body of officials in a government setting	17
10388594464	City-State	A city with its surrounding territory forms an independent state	18
10388599744	Civic	of citizens	19
10388600493	Classical	Conforming to Ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art	20
10388603911	Colonial	Pertaining to the 13 British colonies that became the USA	21
10388613675	Commerce	The activity of buying or selling	22
10388621795	Communal	Shared in common by everyone in a group	23
10388627072	Concubine	A second wife	24
10388629122	Conscription	A contribution of money to a government during a time of war	25
10388632015	Cosmopolitan	Free from ideas	26
10388633169	Coup	A brave deed preformed in battle by a single warrior (striking an enemy warrior without getting injured)	27
10388639581	Demography	The science of vital and social statistics	28
10388643569	Despot	Ruler with unlimited power	29
10388644614	Diaspora	The scattering of Jews beyond Israel Di	30
10388649716	Dissent	To differ from the main opinion	31
10388651387	Dissident	A person who differs in opinion	32
10388652812	Domestic	No longer wild	33
10388655269	Dynasty	A sequence of rulers from the same family	34
10388657134	Edict	A decree issued by an authority	35
10388659340	Egalitarian	Believing that all people are equal and deserve equal rights	36
10388663720	Elite	A part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability	37
10388670466	Emigrate	To leave one county to settle in another	38
10388672050	Epic	Impressively great	39
10388673252	Ethnocentric	The belief that is superior in a single ethnic group	40
10388683950	Feudalism	The feudalism system (its practices)	41
10388685287	Genocide	The extermination of a group of people	42
10388686695	Gentry	an upper of ruling class	43
10388689677	Guild	An organization of people with related interests	44
10388692492	Hierarchy	Any system of people or things ranked one above the other	45
10388695091	Hominoids	Any member of the group consisting or all modes an extinct humans and great apes an all their immediate ancestors	46
10388735271	Homogenous	Corresponding in structure because of a common origin	47
10388738449	Ideology	A myth with reference to some political and social plan and putting it into operation	48
10388742604	Imperial	Characterizing the rule of a sovereign state over its dependencies	49
10388755243	Indigenous	Originating in a particular region	50
10388758284	Infrastructure	The basic structures needed for the operation of a society enterprise	51
10388763555	Linguistic	Belonging to a language	52
10388766340	Manifest	To make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding	53
10388770138	Maritime	Connected to sea in relation to navigation	54
10388776029	Martial	Warlike	55
10388777897	Matrilineal	Inheriting descent through the female line	56
10388780491	Mercenary	Hired to serve in an over seas army	57
10388820891	Monarchy	Supreme power held by a single person	58
10388824499	Monopoly	Exclusive control over a service in a particular market or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices	59
10388830079	Monotheism	The belief that there is only one God	60
10388831776	Nation-State	A sovereign state whose citizens are homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent	61
10388837510	Mystical	Spiritually symbolic	62
10388959444	Neo	A renewed form	63
10388960348	Neolithic	The last phase of the Stone Age	64
10388962220	Nomadic	Wandering (nomad life)	65
10388963733	Oligarchy	Form of government where all power is invested in a few people	66
10388966616	Pantheon	The place of the hero	67
10388968092	Papal	Authority of the Pope	68
10388969939	Parliament	A legislature similar to parliament in other nations and states	69
10388972838	System	Any assemblage of members	70
10388999495	Pastoral	Pertaining to the country	71
10389007063	Patriarchal	Male head of the family	72
10389008185	Patrilineal	Inheriting descent through the male line	73
10389010351	Patronage	Control to make appointments to government jobs or the power to grant political favors	74
10389012722	Peasant	Uneducated person of little financial means	75
10389015077	Pharaoh	any person who uses power to oppress others	76
10389016609	Piety	Reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations	77
10389018796	Polity	Being constituted as a state	78
10389020120	Polygamy	Having more than one spouse	79
10389021863	Polytheism	Belief in more than one God	80
10389025021	Proselytize	Recruit (convert to a proselyte)	81
10389026794	Provincial	Showing the manners of a province	82
10389027662	Regent	A person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor or is absent	83
10389085635	Republic	State where power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen by them	84
10389114770	Rhetoric	The study of the effective use of language	85
10389130190	Sedentary	Accustomed to rest a great deal	86
10389131653	Serf	A slave	87
10389132431	Sharia	Law	88
10389134933	Sinification	Non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture	89
10389137973	State	A territory considered as an organized political community under one government	90
10389140607	Steppe	Large area of flat unforested grassland in Siberia	91
10389143860	Stratification	The arrangement of something into different groups	92
10389145882	Sub-Saharan	Forming part of the Sahara desert	93
10389147321	Subordinate	Lower rank	94
10389148119	Succession	Process of inheriting title	95
10389150694	Syncretism	The amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought	96
10389154941	Textiles	A type of cloth	97
10389155871	Theocracy	A system of government where priests rule in the name of God	98
10389158308	Theology	The study of the nature of God and religious belief	99
10389172406	Totalitarian	System of government that is centralized and requires complete subservience to the state	100
10389174773	Tributary State	Subordinate to a more powerful neighbor	101
10389177239	Tyranny	Cruel rule	102
10389178339	Urban	City or town	103
10389179187	Usurp	To take	104
10389180616	Vernacular	Language spoken by the ordinary people in the region	105