Kamily Ferreira - Vocab - AP 2022 Summer

Summer Vocabulary 2022

Use the internet to help you define the following terms - do NOT just copy and paste - it will be important for you to understand the meaning of these terms in your own words all year. You WILL have a quiz on these words in the first or second week of school. LEARN THEM!

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-making power in all matters of state and over all the country's people.
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-disciplined
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-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic.
animism	a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit
secular	not concerned with religion or the church secular society secular music.
feudalism	a social system existing in medieval Europe in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return.
socialism	a political and economic system in which property and the means of production are owned in common, typically controlled by the state or government.
city-state	an autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory.
primary source	an original object or document
secondary source	works that analyze, assess or interpret an historical event, era, or phenomenon, generally utilizing primary sources to do so
ethnocentrism	the attitude that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others
indigenous	having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment
pastoral	of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen a pastoral people, seminomadic in their habits
rural	an open swath of land that has few homes or other buildings, and not very many people
urban	The region surrounding a city
agrarian	of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure
ecumene	inhabited land
entrepot	A port where goods for import or export can be stored without paying import duties
demography	the statistical study of human populations.
diaspora	a large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world.
consolidate/ consolidation	to join together into one whole
temporally	of or relating to time as distinguished from space
syncretism	the combination of different forms of belief or practice
diffusion	the act of spreading or allowing to spread freely
patriarchy	social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line broadly
matriarchy	a family, group, or state governed by a matriarch
hierarchy	a system of organizing people into different ranks or levels of importance
monogamy	the state or custom of being married to one person at a time or of having only one mate at a time
polygamy/polygyny	the custom in some societies in which someone can be legally married to more than one person at the same time
hegemony	preponderant influence or authority over others
contextualization	Historical thinking skill that involves the ability to connect historical events and processes to specific circumstances of time and place as well as broader regional, national, or global processes
medieval	of the Middle Ages
nomad/nomadic	a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory