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AP World Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abdicate | To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner. |
| Agrarian | relating to the ownership and use of land, especially farmland, or relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with agriculture. |
| Animism | belief in innumerable spiritual beings concerned with human affairs and capable of helping or harming human interests |
| Antiquity | Ancient times |
| Appeasement | Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war |
| Aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| Asenticism | the voluntary abstention for philosophical or religious reasons from physical goods that are central to the well-being of humankind |
| Assimilate | the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society |
| Authoritarian | political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting |
| Autocracy | a form of government in which one ruler has absolute control and decision-making power |
| Bourgeois | a social class oriented to economic materialism and hedonism, and to upholding the political and economic interests of the capitalist ruling-class |
| Bereaucracy | Organized system of administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with non elected officials. |
| Civic | Relating to a citizen |
| Centralized government | one in which both executive and legislative power is concentrated centrally at the higher level as opposed to it being more distributed at various lower level governments. |
| Coerced labor | work a person does for another person (or for the state) under compulsion, receiving little or no recompense |
| Colony | a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country |
| Commerce | all the activities around the exchange of goods or services for something of value like currency or, in bartering societies, other goods or services |
| Communal | characterized by collective ownership and use of property |
| Concubine | a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not legally married, especially one regarded as socially or sexually subservient; mistress |
| Conscription | compulsory enrollment for service in a country's armed forces |
| Cosmopolitan | the idea that all human beings are members of a single community |
| Coup | an illegal and overt attempt by the military or other government elites to unseat the incumbent leader |
| Decentralized government | a governing body the distributes powers amongst many people and districts |
| Demographic | the statistical study of human populations |
| Despot | a ruler with absolute power and authority |
| Diaspora | a large group of people who may share a national or regional origin, but for a variety of reasons, are living outside of this traditional homeland |
| Dissent | an unwillingness to cooperate with an established source of authority, which can be social, cultural, or governmental |
| Domestic | relating to someone's family, home, or home country |
| Dynasty | a family or line of rulers, a succession of sovereigns of a country belonging to a single family or tracing their descent to a common ancestor |
| Edict | a decree, order, or ordinance issued by a sovereign, state, or any other holder of authority |
| Egalitarian | the belief in human equality, especially political, social, and economic equality |
| Emigrate | the departure from a country for life or residence in another |
| Gentry | upper or ruling class |
| Hierarchy | a ranking of positions of authority, often associated with a chain of command and control |
| Homogeneous | those considered as all same, similar, or present in the same proportion |
| Imperialism | when a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain |
| Indigenous | distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced |
| Infrastructure | the basic physical systems of a business, region, or nation and often involves the production of public goods or production processes |
| Lineage | the ancestors from whom a person is descended |
| Linguistic | the scientific study of language |
| Maritime | the study of human interaction with and activity at sea |
| Maritrineal | group adhering to a kinship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines |
| Mercenary | hired professional soldier who fights for any state or nation without regard to political interests or issues |
| Monarchy | political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person |
| Monopoly | a market structure where a single seller or producer assumes a dominant position in an industry or a sector |
| Monotheism | belief in the existence of one god, or in the oneness of God |
| Nationalism | aloyalty and devotion to a nation |
| Nomadic | a person with no settled home, moving from place to place as a way of obtaining food, finding pasture for livestock, or otherwise making a living |
| Oligarchy | a form of government in which a small group of people hold most or all political power |
| Papacy | the office held by the Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Parliament | a formal conference for the discussion of public affairs |
| Pastoral | a strategy involving herding and tending to flocks of animals |
| Patriarchy | a system of relationships, beliefs, and values embedded in political, social, and economic systems that structure gender inequality between men and women |
| Patronage | the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another |
| Peasant | any member of a class of persons who till the soil as small landowners or as agricultural laborers |
| Piety | reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations |
| Pologamy | multiple spouses |
| Polytheism | the belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religious sects and rituals |
| Proletariat | the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labor power (their capacity to work) |
| Region | Region- an area of land that has common features |
| Republic | form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body |
| Secular | the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state |
| Sedentary | living in groups permanently in one place |
| Stratification | a structure of inequality where individuals occupy differentiated positions that are ranked hierarchically according to broadly recognized standards |
| Succession | the act of getting a title or right after the person who had that title or right before you has died or is no longer able or allowed to have it |
| Suffrage | the right or privilege to vote |
| Syncretism | the combination of different forms of belief or practice |
| Theocracy | a government operated under divine rule or the pretense of divine rule |
| Theology | a spiritual or religious attempt of “believers” to explicate their faith |
| Totalitarian | form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control and regulation over public and private life |
| Tributary state | A state subordinate to a more powerful neighboring state |
| Tyranny | Tyranny- an autocratic form of rule in which one individual exercised power without any legal restraint |
| Urbanization | the process through which cities grow, and higher and higher percentages of the population comes to live in the city |
| Unsurp | to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right |
| Vernacular | the language or dialect that is spoken by people who are inhabiting a particular country or region |
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