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APWH Unit 2 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Administer | Manage and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.) |
| Arable | capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage |
| Architecture | the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. |
| Authoritarian | favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom |
| Barbarian | a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person |
| Bureaucracy | government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials |
| Citizens | a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection |
| Cosmopolitan | free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world. |
| Empire | a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government |
| Ideology | the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group |
| Manuscript | the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher. |
| Merchant | a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader. |
| Meritocracy | an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth. |
| Migration | the process or act of migrating |
| Nobility | the noble class or the body of nobles in a country. |
| Orator | a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence |
| Patrician | a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. |
| Republic | a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them |
| Revenue | the income of a government from taxation, excise duties, customs, or other sources, appropriated to the payment of the public expenses |
| Secular | of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal |
| Sino- | a combining form meaning “Chinese" |
| Syncretic | the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion |
| Theocracy | a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities |
| Urban | living in a city |
| Synthesis |
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