AP World History Vocabulary quiz

the absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture

• assimilation

• cosmopolitan

• syncretism

• globalization

Containing or having experience of people and things from many different parts of the world

• assimilation

• cosmopolitan

• syncretism

• globalization

based on kinship with the mother or the female line

• chieftain

• egalitarian

• patrilineal

• matrilineal

used in sailing navigation for calculating latitude

• compass

• astrolabe

• keel

• rudder

government or administrative system characterized by specialization of functions and a hierarchy of authority

• chiefdom

• feudalism

• civilization

• bureaucracy

the spreading of something more widely (like religion)

• feudalism

• diffusion

• syncretism

• assimilation

payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another

• tribute

• dowry

• merit

• edict

amalgamation or combining of different religions and cultures

• assimilation

• diffusion

• syncretism

• hierarchy

a group of people who have no fixed home

• nomadic

• pastoral

• patrilineal

• indigenous

relating to monks, nuns, or others living under religious vows

• vernacular

• mandate of heaven

• monastic

• guilds