1. World History Vocabulary Terms END OF COURSE PREPARATION

2. AGRARIAN

3. Related to agriculture or farming.

4. URBAN

5. Big cities.

6. RURAL

7. Small town, rustic, outside the city. Country.

8. ARABLE LAND

9. Land used for growing crops. Good farm land.

10. SUBSISTENT AGRICULTURE

11. Hand to mouth farming or producing only enough food for your existence. *The poorest of nations lives like this. In contrast, the USA is a commercial farming power.

12. CULTURAL DIFFUSION

13. The spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture. Good example? The Silk Road was used to trade, but the religion of Buddhism was spread from India to China.

14. PATRON

15. A person that supports the arts (painters & sculptors) financially. *Good Example – The De Medici’s were patrons of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo during the Renaissance.

16. FEUDALISM

17. Political and social system of medieval Europe. It is very hierarchical.

18. OLIGARCHY

19. Rule by a few men. Good Examples: Sparta – ruled by 2 kings and 5 Ephors Rome – 1 st and 2 nd Triumvirate – Each Triumvirate had 3 men that were ruling the Roman Empire.

20. EMANCIPATE OR LIBERATE

21. To set free. Example: Some Great liberators would include Lincoln, and Simon Bolivar.

22. FASCISM

23. A dictator led government based on extreme nationalism and the glorification of the leader. Minority rights are not a priority. Good Example: Hitler was the fascist dictator of Germany during World War II.

24. TOTALITARIANISM THIS INCLUDES: TOTALITARIAN DICTATORS, OR A TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENTS.

25. An absolute dictator or a government where all decisions are made by the government. They have total power. The most infamous totalitarian dictators – Mussolini and Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

26. ALLIANCE SYSTEM

27. An agreement or relationship between two or more parties/countries. Entangling alliances were a key cause of World War I.

28. SECULAR

29. Worldly or nonreligious in nature. EXAMPLE – a king would be a secular authority.

30. INTIFADA

31. Uprising, revolt, rebellion. Palestinians had an intifada against Israel in the Holy Land.

32. SUFFRAGE

33. The right to vote.

34. SHARIAH

35. Islamic law.

36. MONARCHY

37. A king or a queen.