Kamily Ferreira - Vocab - AP 2022 Summer

medieval Europe

A social system existing in ________ in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return.

major political unit

A(n) ________ having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority.

doctrine

The ________ or belief that there is but one God.

attitude

The ________ that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others.

political concept

A(n) ________ that refers to dominant power or supreme authority.

form of government

A(n) ________ in which one ruler has absolute control and decision- making power in all matters of state and over all the country's people.

historical events

Historical thinking skill that involves the ability to connect ________ and processes to specific circumstances of time and place as well as broader regional, national, or global processes.

immediate divine guidance

Government of a state by ________ or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.

coup d’etat

a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics

absolutism

a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers

oligarchy

government by the few The corporation is ruled by oligarchy.

theocracy

government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.

egalitarian

a trend of thought in political philosophy

autocracy

a form of government in which one ruler has absolute control and decision

aristocracy

government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class

bureaucracy

a body of nonelected government officials

sovereignty

a political concept that refers to dominant power or supreme authority

dynasty

a succession of rulers of the same line of descent

empire

a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority

papacy

the office or authority of the Pope.

scriptures the books of the Bible

monasticism

a way of living that's religious, isolated from other people, and self

monotheism

the doctrine or belief that there is but one God

polytheism

belief in or worship of more than one god.

semitic

relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro

animism

a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit