AP World Matching
Write in the correct terms for the appropriate definition below:
Indulgence Renaissance
Conquistadors Nationalism
Baroque Heliocentric
theory Humanism Gentry
Dynastic state Geocentric theory Limited (constitutional) monarchy Absolutism Divine-right monarchy Scientific method Rationalism Mercantilism Bedouins
1. __________________ - a form of government where the sovereign power or ultimate authority rested in the hands of a monarch who claimed to rule by divine right and was therefore responsible only to God
2. __________________ a style that dominated
Western painting, sculpture, architecture and music from about 1580 to 1730,
generally characterized by elaborate ornamentation and dramatic effects
3. __________________ a monarchy based on the belief that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible to no one except God
4. __________________ a state where the maintenance and expansion of the interests of the ruling family is the primary consideration
5. __________________ well-to-do English landowners below the level of the nobility
6. __________________ the idea that the earth is as the center of the universe and that the sun and other celestial objects revolve around the earth
7. __________________ - the idea that the sun is at the center of the universe
high culture the literary and artistic culture of the educated and wealthy ruling classes
8. __________________ - an intellectual movement in Renaissance Italy based upon the study of the Greek and Roman classics
9. __________________ - the remission of part or all of the temporal punishment in purgatory due to sin; granted for charitable contributions and other good deeds
10. __________________ - a system of government in which the monarch is limited by a representative assembly and by the duty to rule in accordance with the laws of the land
11. __________________ - a sense of national consciousness based on awareness of being part of a community or nation that has common institutions, traditions, language, and customs that becomes the focus of the individual's primary political loyalty
12. __________________ - a system of thought based on the belief that human reason and experience are the chief sources of knowledge
13. __________________ - the
"rebirth" of classical culture that occurred in
14. __________________ - a method of seeking knowledge through inductive principles, uses experiments and observations to develop generalizations
15. __________________ - conquerors; leaders of the Spanish conquest in the
16. __________________ - an economic theory that held that a nation's prosperity depended on its supply of gold and silver and that the total volume of trade is unchangeable
17. __________________ - nomadic tribes
originally from northern
Caliph the secular leader of the Islamic community
Balance of power Enlightenment Joint-stock
company Individualism Enlightened
absolutism Liberalism Five pillars of Islam Enclosure
movement Jihad Tribute system Guild Natural
rights Agricultural
revolution Suffrage Conscription Secularization Authoritarian
state Natural laws Revolution
1. __________________ - the core requirements of the faith, observation of which would lead to paradise
2. __________________ - in Islam "striving in the way of the Lord", term is ambiguous
3. __________________ - the centralized
government set up in
4. __________________ - an important element of Chinese foreign policy, by which neighboring states paid for the privilege of access to Chinese markets, received legitimization and agreed not to harbor enemies of the Chinese Empire
5. __________________ - the application of new agricultural techniques that allowed for a large increase in productivity in the eighteenth century
6. __________________ - a state that has a dictatorial government and some other trappings of a totalitarian state, but does not demand that the masses e actively involved in the regime's goals as totalitarian states do
7. __________________ - a military draft
8. __________________ - in the eighteenth century, the fencing in of the old open fields, combining many small holdings into large units that could be farmed more efficiently
9. __________________ - an absolute monarchy where the ruler follows the principles of the Enlightenment by introducing reforms for the improvement of society, allowing freedom of speech and press, permitting religious toleration, expanding education, and ruling in accordance with the laws
10. __________________ - an eighteenth-century intellectual movement, led by the philosophes, that stressed the application of reason and the scientific method to al aspects of life
11. __________________ - an association of people with common interests and concerns, especially people working in the same craft
12. __________________ - emphasis on and interest in the unique traits of each person
13. __________________ - a company or association that raises capital by selling shares to individuals who receive dividends on their investment while a board of directors runs the company
14. __________________ - an ideology based on the belief that people should be as free from restraint as possible; advocates change.
15. __________________ - a body of laws or specific principles held to be derived from nature and binding upon all human society even in the absence of positive laws
16. __________________ - certain inalienable rights to which all people are entitled, include the right to life, liberty, and property, freedom of speech and religion, and equality before the law
17. __________________ - a fundamental change in the political and social organization of a state
18. __________________ - the process of becoming concerned with material, worldly, temporal things and less with spiritual and religious things
19. __________________ - the right to vote
20. __________________ - a distribution of power among several states such that no single nation can dominate or interfere with the interests of another