AP World - Vocab

Syncretism

Blending of culture/religion

Synthesis

combination (of ideas/beliefs)

Secular

non-religious

Polygamy

Having more than one wife

Emancipation, manumission

Freeing of enslaved people

sedentary

settled peoples, usually agricultural

pastoral

nomadic peoples, animal herders

schism

a split

abdicate

to give up a throne/rule/authority

bureaucracy

levels of government

public works

government provided services/good

diaspora

a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area.

Matrilineal

of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line

state

government

Indigenous

originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.

Influx

an arrival or entry of large numbers of people or things

Facilitate

to make something easier

Diminished

reduced

Fragmentation

to break apart

Subordinate

lower in rank or position

Interregional

connecting two or more regions

Reciprocity

the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another.

Bullion

gold or silver in bulk before coining, or valued by weight.

Metallurgy

modifying metals for use

Centrally planned/command economy

an economic system in which the government makes the decisions (like Communism)