APUSH Ch. 16 Vocab
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- The practice or condition of having two or more spouses at one time
- Polygamy
- Literally, rule by God; the term is often applied to a state where religous leaders exercise direct or indirect political authority. "...the community became a prosperous frontier theocracy and a cooperative commonwealth."
- Theocracy
- One who is carred away by a cause to an extreme or excessive degree.
- Zealot
- Referring to any place or plan that aims at an ideal social order.
- Utopian
- Reffering to a theory or practice in which the means of production are owned by the community as a whole
- Communistic
- Referring to the belief or practice of the superiority of community life or values over individual life, but not necessarily the common ownership of material goods.
- Communitarian
- The principle or practice of sexual relations unrestricted by law, marriage, or religious constraints
- Free Love
- Concerning the improvement of the human species through selective breeding or genetic control
- Eugenic
- The belief in or practice or marrying only one spouse at a time
- Monogamy
- Concerning the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, or any artistic or cultural values presumed to be based on those enduring ancient principles.
- Classical
- Referring to the belief in the direct apprehension of God or divine mystery, without reliance on reason or human comprehension.
- Mystical
- One who refuses to follow established or conventional ideas or habits.
- Nonconformist
- The principle of resolving or engaging in conflict without resort to physical force.
- Nonviolence
- Sophisticated, elegant, cosmopolitan.
- Urbane
- Under the care and direction of God or other benevolent natural or supernatural forces
- Providential