AP European History Vocabulary Words

Words for AP Euro

Identify

establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is.

Evaluate

to judge or determine the significance or importance of information or the quality of; assess

Describe

to tell depict or in written or spoken words; give an account of

Analyze

to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc.

Significant

important and deserving of attention

Sovereignty

the quality or state of being sovereign, or having supreme power or authority

Fuedal

of relating to, or like the feudal system, or its political, military, social, and economic structure

Exacerbate

to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc)

Gentry

wellbrn and well-bred people; (in england) the class below nobility

Oligarchy

a form of government in which the power to rule is vested in a few persons in a dominant class or clique; government by the few

Demographic

a single vital or social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths

Fiscal

of or relating to the public treasury or revenues

Belligerent

warlike; given to waging war; of warlike character

Liquidate

to settle or pay a debt; convert inventory into cash

Depreciate

to reduce the purchasing value of money; to lessen the value or price of

Contentious

tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome

Consensus Model

to achieve agreement within a distributed system on the valid state

Proliferation

a rapid or often excessive spread or increase

Vanquish

to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle

Confound

to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; to throw into increase confound or disorder

Classical

of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity

Scholaticism

University

an institution of the highest learning level, having college liberal arts and a program of graduates study together with several professional schools

Vernacular

expressed or written in the native language of a place

Perspective (in art)

of or relating to the art of perspective, or representing according to its laws

Patronage

the financial support or business provided to a store , hotel, or like the, by the customers, clients, or paying guests

Heliocentric

measured or seen as being seen from the center of the sun

Colony

a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land settlement subject to, connected with, the parent nation

Indigenous

originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to)

Manor

(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demise and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc; any similar territorial unit in Medieval Europe, as a feudal state

Peasant

a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank

Serfdom

A type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to peruse their a new occupation. This was common in early Medeival Europe as well as in Russia until the mid 19th century.

Standard of Living

a grade or level of subsistence and comfort in everyday life enjoyed by a community, class, or individual

Dislocation

an act or instance of dislocating; state of being dislocated

Public Morals

those punishing vagrancy and prostitution, prohibiting gambling, etc.

Communal

used or shared in common but everyone in a group

Pluralism

A theory of government that holds that open, multiple, and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.

Decentralization/centralization

to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area

Subjagated

controlled; to be controlled

Revenue

the amount of income of a government from taxation, excuse duties, customs, or other sources, appropriated to the payment of the public excuses

Ecclesiastical

of or relating to the church

Exonerated

having been cleared of an accusation or freed from blame

Impetus

a moving force

Impel

to drive or urge forward; press on

Ordinance

an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command

Predominant

having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others

Persistence

the act or fact of persisting

Imposition

the laying on of something as a burden or obligation

Inference

the act or process of inferring

Decimate

to kill or destroy a large part of

Domestic

of or relating to the home, household, household affairs, or the family

Subsequent

occurring or coming later or after