Vocab Flashcards
The act of acquiring or gaining possession
Acquisition
To do away with;put an end to
Abolish
Relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property.
Agrarian
To incorporate into the domain of a city, country, or state.
Annex
A person who dedicates their life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self denial or self notification for religious reasons
Ascetic
Government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officers
Bureaucracy
A spiritual leader of Islam claiming succession from Muhammad
Caliph
A person who has capital invested in business enterprise
Capitalist
To settle land distant from one’s homeland but maintain ties with it
Colonize
A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state
Communism
Compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft
Conscription
The disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change
Conservatism
The transmission of cultural institutions, skills, and myths from one culture to another
Cultural diffusion
To distribute administrative powers or functions of a central authority over a less concentrated area
Decentralized
Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system
Democracy
Of or pertaining to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family or of or pertaining to one’s own or a particular country as apart from other countries
Domestic
A sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group
Dynasty
A group of nations or people’s ruled iver by Emperor, Empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom
Empire
The diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative
Envoy
Immunity from the jurisdiction of the nation, granted to foreign diplomatic officials, foreign warships, etc.
Extraterritoriality
A governmental system led by dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition in criticism, regimented all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism
Facism
A political and economic system of Europe from the ninth to about the 15th-century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of Lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture
Feudalism
A person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence
Immigrant
The policy of extending the rule or authority of an Empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies
Imperialism
A person who is bound to work for another for a specified period of time
indentured servant
Originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native
Indigenous
The large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical Enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
Industrialization
A state or government having a king or queen as its head
Kingdom
Connected with the sea in relation to navigation, shipping, etc.
Maritime
The goal of this date was that accumulation of precious metals, by exporting the largest possible quantity of its products and importing as little as possible, thus establishing favorable balance of trade
Mercantilism
A person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader
Merchant
The technique or signs of working overheating that also has to give them certain Desired shapes or properties
Metallurgy
To go from one country, region, or place to another
Migration
, Pertaining to, or characteristic of monks or nuns, their manner of life, or their religious obligations or, pertaining to, or characteristic of a secluded, dedicated, or austere manner of living
Monastic
Devotion and loyalty to one’s own country; the desire for national advancement or political independence
Nationalism
Has no permanent abode that moves about some place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional fruit or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply
Nomadic
Of, pertaining to, or consisting of shepherds/herding
Pastoral
Outboard pertaining to the male head of the family, tribe, church, order etc.
Patriarchal
The doctor and that Sobran power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general well
Popular sovereignty
The improvement or amendment so what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.
Reform
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country, country life, our country people
Rural
Of or pertaining to worldly things or two things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred
Secular
Abiding in one place; not migratory
Sedentary
The determining by the people of the form of their government shall have without reference to the wishes of any other nation, especially by people of the territory or former colony
Self-determination
Siri or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, land, etc., and the community as a whole
Socialism
Serving or acting in a subordinate capacity
Subservient
The right to vote, especially in a political election
Suffrage
Sum of money demanded by government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
Tax
Absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution
Totalitarianism
Of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town
Urban
