FAU World History Vocab

✸Before Common Era or Before Christ✸ \n AKA B.C., was renamed to maintain religious neutrality

✸Common Era or Christian Era✸ \n AKA A.D.

to renounce one's position in power

the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, rising up in power \

the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste

concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land \n

a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place. \n \n EX: having a pool at home, having room service, having a balcony

✴a state of disorder due to the absence or nonrecognition of authority or other controlling systems. \n \n Simple Def: a society with no rulers

✦the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence

the quality of being ancient; ancient times \n the quality of being antique-like✦

Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation to prevent war. \n

✦a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals \n \n EX: Abstinence and fasting

taking on the traits of the dominant culture to such a degree that the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable from other members of the society \n \n EX: immigrants "American-washing" themselves to avoid being viewed as other

favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. EX: Russian Federation, Nazi Germany

a system of government by one person with absolute power. \n

-someone who is perceived to be either uncivilized or primitive \n -a person from a foreign land, culture, or group believed to be inferior, uncivilized, or violent.

🏷 a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by ✦state officials✦ rather than by elected representatives. \n \n 🏷 Bureaucrats = busy, self-appointed cats 🏷

someone who is a member of a bureaucracy \n \n EX: government agencies, large corporations, and the military

a political system consisting of an independent city having sovereignty over contiguous territory and serving as a centre and leader of political, economic, and cultural life. \n \n ⋄A city that functions as its own state⋄

the study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society

relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.

of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colonies. \n \n -colony = a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland.-

the buying and selling of goods

shared by all members of a community; for common use. \n \n EX: collective households, cohousing communities, co-living, ecovillages, monasteries, survivalist retreats, kibbutzim, hutterites, ashrams, and housing cooperatives

a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives. \n ☃extramarital sexual relationship☃

state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service \n \n ♢AKA being drafted♢

things that stay the same, relatively unchanged, over time \n \n ♢long-standing traditions, cultural values, or political systems that endure despite changes that may occur in other areas.♢

♢deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting the opposite. \n ♢be in conflict with.

(v.) to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify

Places that are "diverse," or bustling with lots of people of varying nationalities

a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government

the statistical study of human populations

a ruler with absolute power or tyrannical control over a group of people \n ✮tryant

✮a large group of people who may share a national or regional origin, but for a variety of reasons, are living outside of this traditional homeland. \n \n ☆EX: removal of Jewish people from Judea, the removal of Africans through slavery

a dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body \n \n ☆ Dissent = disagree ☆

a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.

process in which people found new ways to control different plants and animals to better suit human needs

a line of hereditary rulers of a country. \n How to Remember: ❉dynasty = eat dinner together?❉

an order issued by someone in authority

relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. \n \n HTR: ❉Egal = equal❉

a select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society.

the act of leaving your own country in order to settle permanently in another.

A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups \n \n ❉Ethno = ethnicity \n ❉Centric = central point \n \n EX: Nazi Germany -> Aryan Race

a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return \n \n ❉the dominant social system in medieval Europe

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group \n \n EX: Holocaust, The Rape of Nanking, The Rwandan Genocide

\n upper middle class of wealthy gentlemen farmers who were well educated, politically astute, and generally came from successful families. \n \n ❉AKA "farmer/landowning class❉

associations of craftsmen and merchants formed to promote the economic interests of their members as well as to provide protection and mutual aid

A group organized by rank \n \n HTR:

A species on the human branch of the evolutionary tree; a member of the family Hominidae, including Homo sapiens and our ancestors

of the same or a similar kind or nature

A consistent set of beliefs by groups/individuals

A. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. \n B. rule by an emperor.

originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native

the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.

the scientific study of language and its structure

- document listing the cargo, passengers, and crew of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle, for the use of customs and other officials \n - philosophy claiming that a nation needs to expand

connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity. this includes the study of human interaction and their interactions with sea.

of or appropriate to war; warlike.

relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother

a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.

A government ruled by a king or queen

-the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

-exclusive control by one party/person

\n Belief in one God

having a spiritual sense or importance beyond human understanding

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

✷Country with Homogeneous factors✷

new

of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.

wandering from place to place

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. \n

Meaning: of all gods \n \n The Pantheon is a former Roman temple and, since 609 AD, a Catholic church in Rome, Italy

the office or authority of the pope

Parliament = legislative body

PS= a system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature

-related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle

-concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance

Dominated by men

based on or tracing descent through the male line

- (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support \n -financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.

\n a member of a class of persons who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank

a ruler in ancient Egypt

devoutly religious.

an organized society, such as a nation, state, church, or other organization, having a specific form of government

having more than one spouse at a time

Belief in many gods

to convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause

(adj) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or in outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside \n (n) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier froma province or colony \n Synonyms: narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive \n Antonyms: cosmopolitian, catholis, broad-minded

a person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor or is absent or incapacitated.

A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting

the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion

living in groups permanently in one place

A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord \n \n HOW TO REMEMBER: Miracle Musical said "See how the serfs work the ground"

set of Islamic religious law that governs aspects of day-to-day life for Muslims in addition to religious rituals

extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions \n \n HTR: Sini = Chinese in Hebrew

a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

\n sparse, dry, treeless grassland

\n society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors

from or forming part of the African regions south of the Sahara desert.

✷ Sub = underneath or lower

(adj.) lower in rank or position, secondary; (n.) one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else; (v.) to put in a lower or secondary position

the order in which or the conditions under which one person after another succeeds to a property, dignity, position, title, or throne.

a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith