AP WORLD HISTORY Flashcards
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| 14202962654 | Abdicate | To give up sovereign power, office, or responsibilities usually formally | 0 | |
| 14202962655 | Absolutism | 1. A political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers. 2. Advocacy of absolute standards of principles | 1 | |
| 14202962656 | Appeasement | Foreign Policy for pacifying an aggrieved nation through negotiation in order to prevent war. | 2 | |
| 14202962657 | Assimilate | 1. To take something in and make it part of and like the thing it has joined 2. To make similar | 3 | |
| 14202962658 | Boyar | A member of a Russian aristocrat order next in rank below the ruling princes until its abolition by Peter the Great | 4 | |
| 14202962659 | Buddha | 1. A person who has attained the perfect spiritual fulfillment sought in Buddhism 2. A representation of Gautama Buddha | 5 | |
| 14202962660 | Bushi | Samurai/Warrior | 6 | |
| 14202962661 | Chosen | Selected or marked for favor or special privilege | 7 | |
| 14202962662 | Confucius | 551-479 b.c. Chinese philosopher | 8 | |
| 14202962663 | Despotic | 1. A ruler with absolute power and authority 2. A person exercising power abusively, oppressively, or tyrannously | 9 | |
| 14202962664 | Diaspora | 1. The settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile | 10 | |
| 14202962665 | Dichotomy | A division into or distinction between two groups that are mutually exclusive or contradictory. | 11 | |
| 14202962666 | Domesticity | 1. The quality or state of being domestic or domesticated 2. Domestic activists ot life 3. Domestic affairs | 12 | |
| 14202962667 | Egalitarian | Asserting, promoting, or marked by egalitarianism. | 13 | |
| 14202962668 | GDP (gross domestic product) | Total market value of the goods and services produced by a country's economy during a specified period of time. | 14 | |
| 14202962669 | Genghis Khan | about 1162-1227 Mongol conqueror | 15 | |
| 14202962670 | Guilds | An association of people with similar with similar interests or pursuits | 16 | |
| 14202962671 | Hegemony | Dominant influence or authority especially of one nation over others | 17 | |
| 14202962672 | Hellenistic | 1. Of or relating to Greek history, culture, or art after the conquests of Alexander the Great 2. Of it relating to the Hellenists | 18 | |
| 14386453272 | Icon | (n.) a representation or image of a sacred personage or events in mural painting, mosaic, or wood. | 19 | |
| 14386453273 | Ideology | a system of social or political ideas (practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones) | 20 | |
| 14386453274 | impede | To obstruct or interfere with; to delay | 21 | |
| 14386453275 | indigenous | originating in or produced, growing, or living naturally in a particular region or environment. | 22 | |
| 14386453276 | infrastructure | the basic framework of a building or a system | 23 | |
| 14386453277 | investiture | Act of installing a person in an office rank or order | 24 | |
| 14386453278 | Jihad | holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty | 25 |