Unit 0 Vocab Flashcards
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Abdicate
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- 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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- 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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- The belief that plants, objects, and natural occurrences have souls
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Antiquity
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- The ancient past particularly before the middle ages
2. The quality of being old
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Appeasement
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- To placate to an aggressor possibly at the sacrifice of principles
- To bring to a state of peace
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Aristocracy
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- 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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- Extreme self discovery and avoidance of indulgence for religion
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Assimilate
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- To take in culture or ideas and understand fully
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Authoritarian
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- Enforcing strict obedience to authority mainly governments at the expense to personal freedoms
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Autocracy
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- A government system with one reason of absolute power
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Barbarian
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- Absence of culture and civilization
2. Extreme cruelty or brutality
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Bureaucracy
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- A government system where most decisions are made by state officials and elected reps
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Civic
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- Relating to a city or town particularly its government
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Coerced
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- To convince someone to do something by force
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Colonial
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- 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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- The action of buying and selling particularly to a big scale
- Social dealings between peopl
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Communal
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- Shared between all members of a community
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Concubine
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- 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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- Mandatory enlistment to state service typically military service
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Cosmopolitan
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- Including people from many countries
2. Familiar and calm with many different cultures and countries
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Coup
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- A sudden illegal siege of a government power using violence an important or successful move
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Demographic
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- Relating to a populations structure
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Despot
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- A ruler who holds absolute power and typically exercises it in a cruel way
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Diaspora
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- The dispersion of any people from their homeland typically in reference to Jews
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Dissent
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- Holding different opinions from those previously or commonly held
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Domestic
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- An animal tamed and kept by humans
2. Existing inside a particular country
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Dynasty
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- A line of hereditary rulers of a country
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Edict
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- An official order issued by a person of authority
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Egalitarian
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- Believing that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities
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Emigrate
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- Leave one’s own country in order to settle permanently in another
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Ethnocentric
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- 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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- 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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- A system where people or groups rank above another based on status
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Homogeneous
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- The same kind ; alike
2. Consisting of all the same parts
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Imperialism
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- The policy of extending a countries through diplomacy / force
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Indigenous
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- Occurring/originating naturally in a place
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Infrastructure
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- Basic organizational structures and facilities needed for a society to function
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Linguistic
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- Relating to a language
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Lineage
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- The decent from a common ancestry
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Maritime
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- Connected to the sea ( relating to sea farming or military activity)
- Living or found near the sea
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Matrilineal
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- Kinship with the mother or female line
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Mercenary
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- A person who only cares about getting money at the expense of ethics
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Monarchy
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- A form of government with a king/queen at the head
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Monopoly
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- Exclusive possession of the supply of a good or service
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Monotheism
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- The belief that their is only one god
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Neo
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- New
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Nomadic
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- A person moving from place to place
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Oligarchy
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- A government with a small group in power
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Papacy
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- The office of a pope
- A popes term
- A succession of popes
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Parliament
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- 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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- Land used for holding or grazing of cattle
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Patriarchal
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- Relating to a system of society controlled by men
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Patronage
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- The support given by an organization or individual
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Peasant
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- A poor farmer who owns little land for farming
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Piety
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- The characteristic of being religious
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Polygamy
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- The practice of having more than one wife at a time
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Polytheism
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- Belief in more than one god
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Proselytize
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- To try to convert someone to another religion or belief
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Republic
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- State where power is held by the people and their elected representatives
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Secular
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- Not specifically religious
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Sedentary
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- A person who spends most their time seated ( inactive )
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Sinicization
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- Bringing something under china’s influence
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Steppe
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- A large unforested area of flat grassland in southeastern Europe or Serbia
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Stratification
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- The classification of something into groups
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Succession
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- The action of inheriting a title, office, or property
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Suffrage
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- The right to vote in election
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Syncretism
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- The combination of different forms of belief
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Theocracy
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- A system of government where a priest rules
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Theology
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- The study of the nature of god and religious beliefs
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Totalitarian
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- A system of government that is centralized
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Tributary state
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- A state subordinate to a nearby more powerful state
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Tyranny
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- Cruel and oppressive government
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Urbanization
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- The process of making an area more urban
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Usurp
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- The taking of a position illegally or by force
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Vernacular
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- The language or dialect spoken by people in a country
