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AP World History - History Jargon June 21, 2015 Below is a list of words you will encounter at some point during AP World History. I do not expect you to know all these words before the course, but I do expect you to know them by the end of the course, and each chapter/unit will add several more examples to your vocabulary. Note: these are far from all the words you may encounter this year. You’ll learn far more new words/phrases in your English class that will also help you write better historical essays and understand your assigned historical readings. These are just the words that have a specific application in history. Choose 20 words that you don’t know and write a short definition. abolition absolutism administer / -stration admonish / -ment Afroafter-life agrarian Ameranalyze / analysis anarchism / anarchy ancient ante bellum anti-semitism apathy appease / -ment arable archaeology archaic architecture -archy argue / argument artifact artisan aristocrat / -cracy atheism asceticism austere / -ity authoritarian / -ism balance of power balance of trade barbarian blockade border (national) boycott bourgeoisie broker (v.) bullion bureaucracy / -cratic cabinet (gov’t) capital / -ism capitol capitulate cartel caste casualty causation / causal celibacy / celibate central / -centric century circa (c. ca.) city-state citizen civilization / -ized chauvinism chivalry class struggle classical clergy coerce coincidence colony, colonial commodity commune (communal, communism) conflate conjuncture conscript / -ion consequence conserve / -ative constitution (small “c”) conflate consumer / -ism contemporary contest (v.) context continent contingency / -gent convention / -al converge converse (v.& n.) convert (v. & n.) corporation corollary correlation cosmopolitan coup d’état -cracy (autocracy, democracy) craft (n. & v.) credit currency current Darwinism de facto debit debt decade deficit deflate / -tion deforestation deity / deism delay (v. & n.) democracy demography demon / -ize destiny determinism dictator / -ship diffuse / diffusion diplomacy / -matic diversity / diverse divinity / divine doctrine / doctrinal document (v. & n.) dogma / dogmatic domestic draft (v. & n.) dualism dynasty eclectic economy / economic edict edifice edify egalitarian elite emancipate / -tion empire / emperor emporia encounter enlighten entrepót epidemic era ethereal ethic ethnic / ethnoeunuch Euroexecutive (branch) expense explicate explicit extravagant homogeneous / -eity hyperhypohypocrisy / hypocrite facade facilitate faction factor famine fascism / -ist feminism feudal / -ism fief / fiefdom figurative filial fiscal flourish forage forestall forum fortify fortnight frame of reference franchise fraternize / -zation free trade frontier frugal fundamental / -ism fuse / fusion -icide (suicide, infanticide) identity ideology imbue immutable impede / -iment implement imperial / -ism implicit import incarnation / -nate incent / incentive incontrovertible indenture (v.) independence indigenous industry / -trial / -ism infanticide infer inflate / -tion influx inherent inherit innate innovate / -tion institution insurrection integrate integrity inter- / intrainverse / invert invest / -ment irreconcilable irrigation -ism / -ist / -ize gall gender generalize / -ation genocide geoglobalization government -graphy (demography, geography) guerilla guild haggle hegemony heliohierarchy historiography judiciary / judicial juncture junta kin / kinship king / kingdom laissez-faire AP World History - History Jargon -lateral (uni-, bi-, multi-) lay the Left legislature / -tion legitimacy / -mate lenient liberal lingual / linguistic liquidation lithograph -logy luxury / -ious nation-state nationalism negotiate / -tion neonetherneutral / -ity NGOs (non-gov’t org) nobility / noble nomad / nomadic nuclear family nun objective majority obligate / -tory mal- (malnourished, obliterate / -tion malevolent) optimism mandate (v. & n.) oracle maneuver oral manifest orate manifesto ordain manor / -ial manuscript orthodox / -y maritime outstrip massacre pacifism / pacify material pagan materiel paleomatri- (matriarch / panmatrilineal) papacy / papal medieval parish mercantile / -ism parliament merchandise partition merchant pastoral merit / meritocracy paternal mesopathogen metapathos metallurgy patri- (patriarch) metaphor / -ical patrician metropole / -politan patrilineal middle class patron / -ize migrate / -tion peasant military / -ism peccadillo militia penetrate millennia / -ium penultimate minister (n. a diplomat) peon / peonage minority period missionary perish modern / -ity persecute / -tion monarch / -y perspective monastery / -astic pessimism monetary philia / -philic / -ophile monophobia / phobic monsoon pilgrim / -age mores plague mortal / -ity plausible mutate plethora mystical plurality nation point of view polemics political / politics polypolygamy postpragmatic / -tism preprecipitate prerequisite prestige / -ous pretext priest primal primary principal principle private privation privelege proclaim / -ation profit / profiteer prohibit / -ion proletariat promulgate propaganda prosperity protectorate protoprovidence province / -cial prudent push-pull factors psychoquagmire qualify quandary quantify quantity quarry quest racism / racial radical rare / rarity rational / rationale raw material rebel / rebellion reform regime register (n. & v.) regulation reign reincarnation reparation repress / -ion republic resurge / resurgent revenue revive / revival revolt revolution the Right rimland rival / rivalry rural Russosacred / sacrament sanction sarcasm scholar score (n. a unit of time) secede / secession secondary sect secular sedentary segregation serf / serfdom shaman / -ism Sinoskepticism / -ical slavery Social Darwinism social democracy socialism socio-economic sovereign / -ty sponsor stagnate / stagnant state (n.) status quo strata / stratification strategy / strategic subsubmerge subordinate (v. & n.) subsidy / subsidize subsistence subvert / subversive surrender syncretic / -ism synthesis tangible tariff teleteleology / -ogical temporary tenet terminal territory / territorial June 21, 2015 terrorism text / -ual textile theo- (theology, theocracy) theory Third World tolerate / -ance topography totalitarian tract tradition traitor trust (n.) uberultimate ultimatum unanimity / -mous unify / unity union (n.) uprising urban usurp utopia / utopian venerate / venerable verbal / verbabize / verbificate1 vermin vernacular viceroy xeno- (xenophobia , xenophobic) ware the West working class world-systems theory Units of Time century2 fortnight millennia / millennium score 1 Just kidding! At least you’re still paying attention. ( 2 Be sure to know how a particular year corresponds to a century. (e.g. 2014 is in the 21st century, 1877 was in the 19th century)