Essay about Ap World History Vocabulary

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1. Vernacular: Use the language of the local people 2. Venerate: Regard with great respect; revere. 3. Vassals: Members of the military elite who received land or a benefice from a lord in return for military service and loyalty. 4. Utopia: An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. 5. Urbanization: the act or fact of urbanizing or taking on the characteristics of a city. 6. Subsistence: The action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level 7. Satire: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 8. Sanctioned: to support, officially authorize. 9. Salvation: Deliverance from sin and its consequences or preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss. 10. Right-Wing: The conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system. 11. Revolution: A forcible overthrow of a government or social order for a new system. 12. Pope: The head of the Roman Catholic Church. 13. Patriarch: The male head of a family or tribe. 14. Parliament: A national representative body having supreme legislative powers within the state. 15. Papacy: The office of the Pope. 16. Nun: A member of a religious community of women, esp. a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. 17. Morality: Principles concerning the distinction