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Unit 0 Vocab Flashcards

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Abdicate

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  1. For a monarch to step down from their thrown

2. to reject or fail a duty

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Agrarian

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  1. Relating to fields and their care

2. A person or group who promote land redistribution and agricultural intrest

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Animism

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  1. The belief that plants, objects, and natural occurrences have souls
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Antiquity

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  1. The ancient past particularly before the middle ages

2. The quality of being old

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Appeasement

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  1. To placate to an aggressor possibly at the sacrifice of principles
  2. To bring to a state of peace
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Aristocracy

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  1. The highest class in certain societies

2. A type of government where power is held by nobility

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Asccbicism

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  1. Extreme self discovery and avoidance of indulgence for religion
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Assimilate

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  1. To take in culture or ideas and understand fully
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Authoritarian

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  1. Enforcing strict obedience to authority mainly governments at the expense to personal freedoms
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Autocracy

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  1. A government system with one reason of absolute power
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Barbarian

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  1. Absence of culture and civilization

2. Extreme cruelty or brutality

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Bureaucracy

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  1. A government system where most decisions are made by state officials and elected reps
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Civic

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  1. Relating to a city or town particularly its government
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Coerced

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  1. To convince someone to do something by force
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Colonial

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  1. Relating to or the characteristic of being from a country under the control/rule of another
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Commerce

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  1. The action of buying and selling particularly to a big scale
  2. Social dealings between peopl
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Communal

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  1. Shared between all members of a community
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Concubine

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  1. A woman who lives with a man but is of a lower status that his wife/wives
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Conscription

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  1. Mandatory enlistment to state service typically military service
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Cosmopolitan

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  1. Including people from many countries

2. Familiar and calm with many different cultures and countries

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Coup

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  1. A sudden illegal siege of a government power using violence an important or successful move
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Demographic

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  1. Relating to a populations structure
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Despot

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  1. A ruler who holds absolute power and typically exercises it in a cruel way
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Diaspora

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  1. The dispersion of any people from their homeland typically in reference to Jews
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Dissent

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  1. Holding different opinions from those previously or commonly held
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Domestic

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  1. An animal tamed and kept by humans

2. Existing inside a particular country

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Dynasty

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  1. A line of hereditary rulers of a country
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Edict

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  1. An official order issued by a person of authority
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Egalitarian

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  1. Believing that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities
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Emigrate

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  1. Leave one’s own country in order to settle permanently in another
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Ethnocentric

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  1. Evaluating other peoples cultures according to the standard of one’s own ( and believing yours to be above another)
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Gentry

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  1. People of a specific group or class

2. People of good social standing directly below nobility

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Hierarchy

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  1. A system where people or groups rank above another based on status
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Homogeneous

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  1. The same kind ; alike

2. Consisting of all the same parts

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Imperialism

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  1. The policy of extending a countries through diplomacy / force
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Indigenous

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  1. Occurring/originating naturally in a place
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Infrastructure

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  1. Basic organizational structures and facilities needed for a society to function
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Linguistic

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  1. Relating to a language
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Lineage

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  1. The decent from a common ancestry
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Maritime

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  1. Connected to the sea ( relating to sea farming or military activity)
  2. Living or found near the sea
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Matrilineal

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  1. Kinship with the mother or female line
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Mercenary

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  1. A person who only cares about getting money at the expense of ethics
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Monarchy

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  1. A form of government with a king/queen at the head
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Monopoly

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  1. Exclusive possession of the supply of a good or service
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Monotheism

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  1. The belief that their is only one god
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Neo

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  1. New
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Nomadic

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  1. A person moving from place to place
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Oligarchy

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  1. A government with a small group in power
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Papacy

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  1. The office of a pope
  2. A popes term
  3. A succession of popes
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Parliament

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  1. The UK’s highest legislature, contains the sovereign the house of the house of the lords and the house of commons
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Pastoral

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  1. Land used for holding or grazing of cattle
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Patriarchal

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  1. Relating to a system of society controlled by men
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Patronage

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  1. The support given by an organization or individual
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Peasant

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  1. A poor farmer who owns little land for farming
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Piety

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  1. The characteristic of being religious
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Polygamy

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  1. The practice of having more than one wife at a time
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Polytheism

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  1. Belief in more than one god
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Proselytize

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  1. To try to convert someone to another religion or belief
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Republic

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  1. State where power is held by the people and their elected representatives
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Secular

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  1. Not specifically religious
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Sedentary

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  1. A person who spends most their time seated ( inactive )
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Sinicization

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  1. Bringing something under china’s influence
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Steppe

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  1. A large unforested area of flat grassland in southeastern Europe or Serbia
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Stratification

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  1. The classification of something into groups
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Succession

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  1. The action of inheriting a title, office, or property
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Suffrage

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  1. The right to vote in election
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Syncretism

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  1. The combination of different forms of belief
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Theocracy

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  1. A system of government where a priest rules
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Theology

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  1. The study of the nature of god and religious beliefs
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Totalitarian

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  1. A system of government that is centralized
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Tributary state

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  1. A state subordinate to a nearby more powerful state
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Tyranny

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  1. Cruel and oppressive government
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Urbanization

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  1. The process of making an area more urban
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Usurp

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  1. The taking of a position illegally or by force
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Vernacular

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  1. The language or dialect spoken by people in a country

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