AP World History Flashcards

7277172349	Advocated	Supported	0
7277172350	Agrarian	having to do with farms, farmers, or the use of land	1
7277172351	Arable	Suitable for growing crops	2
7277172352	Assimilation	One culture merging with another to form a mixed culture	3
7277172353	Capitalism	An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.	4
7277172354	Civilization	A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes	5
7277172355	Condoned	to overlook, forgive.	6
7277172356	Demography	Scientific study of human populations.	7
7277172357	despot	a ruler with absolute power	8
7277172358	dissension	disagreement, sharp difference of opinion	9
7277172359	diffuse	to spread or scatter freely	10
7277172360	Edict	an official order issued by a person in authority	11
7277172361	Embargo	A ban on trade	12
7277172362	emigrate	leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.	13
7277172363	eradicate	to wipe out; to destroy	14
7277172364	Feudalism	A political system in which a lord owned all the land while the vessels and serfs farmed it	15
7277172365	filial	relating to a son or daughter	16
7277172366	Gentry	Wealthy landowning class	17
7277172367	Hegemony	Dominance of one group over others	18
7277172368	Hinder	to delay, to stop or prevent from happening	19
7277172369	Hubris	Excessive pride	20
7277172370	Infanticide	act of killing an infant	21
7277172371	Indigenous	native to a place	22
7277172372	Landlocked	completely surrounded by land with no direct access to the ocean	23
7277172373	Literacy	ability to read and write	24
7277172374	Manorial	A manor or estate owned by a lord	25
7277172375	Monotheism	The belief in one God	26
7277172376	Nationalism	A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country	27
7277172377	nuclear family	Mother, father and children living as a unit	28
7277172378	patriarchal	relating to a society in which men hold the greatest authority	29
7277172379	Polytheism	Belief in more than one god	30
7277172380	Precipitate	Unexpected or prematurely	31
7277172381	Republic	A government with written laws	32
7277172382	sect	A relatively small group that has broken away	33
7277172383	Secular	Non-religious	34
7277172384	Serfs	A person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times	35
7277172385	Socialism	a system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production	36
7277172386	Steppe	Sparse, dry, treeless grassland	37
7277172387	Theocracy	A government controlled by religious leaders	38
7277172388	traditional	Long-established, passed down through one's family	39
7277172389	Topography	the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.	40
7277172390	tutelage	protection, or guardianship	41
7277172391	Urban	city	42