AP WORLD HISTORY

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AP WORLD HISTORY

• Common Usage Terms
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  K.M.H.S.
• AP World History
  

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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

• Incorporate the concepts and terms in this
  presentation throughout the course.
• Relate them to each theme and/or topic.
• Evaluate/describe
• Political systems
• How do they govern? Who rules?
• Economic systems
• How do they make a living? Technology?
• Cultural systems Religions, Gender roles,
  etc.?
• Biological systems Where do they live? Climate?
  Environmental interactions?

4 Quadrant Organizer
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Key Comparisons

• All key comparisons/contrasts must be
• Comprised of Venn Diagram

Theme Date Range
Political Systems Economic Systems Cultural
Systems Biological Systems
Include small map on the back if applicable
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Continuity Change

• TRADITIONAL TENDENCIES WITHIN A SOCIETY
• Continuities
• Long-standing cultural traditions within a
  society
• Stay the same over time or are recurring
• Changes
• Cultural traditions that are newly adopted
• Identifies changes within society

Example Confucianism
Example Adoption of Buddhism
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TIME MEASURES

• B.C.E.
• Before Current/Common Era
• All measured time before the year 0
• C.E.
• Current/Common Era
• All measured time from year 0 to present
• ALL DATES GIVEN ARE RELATIVE AND COULD
• BE QUOTED DIFFERENTLY IN OTHER SOURCES.

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CENTURY DESIGNATES

• Centuries are quoted thus
• 1901 to 2001 20th Century
• 2001 to 2101 21st Century
• Thus the years cited would be designated the
  later next century
• Ex. 1492 15th Century
• Ex. 1776 18th Century

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CENTURY DESIGNATES

• 16th Century Spain
• 17th Century Dutch
• 18th Century France
• 19th Century Britain
• 20th Century America
• 21st Century - ?????

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VERNACULAR

• Terms / concepts in the common language of
  historians.
• Using the vernacular implies that you will use
  the appropriate terms identified throughout the
  course.
• Doing this will get you points on the AP exam.
• AND MY EXAMS!

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OTHER ABBREVIATIONS

• Casualty Statistics
• KIA
• Killed in action
• MIA
• Missing in action
• WIA
• Wounded in action
• Used later in the course

• Million
• M
• Thousand
• K
• Billion
• B
• Hundred
• C
• Circa Latin term
• c. means around this time

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LEGAL TERMS

• Dejure
• Latin term
• Means legal or legally recognized based in law.
• Defacto
• Latin term
• Means in practice but not legally recognized or
  based in law.

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LATIN TERMSPlease Define

• Ad hoc
• Et al.
• et cetera
• Habeas corpus
• INRI
• Mare nostrum
• Modus operandi
• Pater Familias
• Pax
• Americana
• Romana
• Mongolia

• Per annum
• Per Capita
• Per diem
• Quid pro quo
• Sic.
• SPQR
• Status quo
• Terra incognita
• Vae victis
• Veni vidi vici
• Veto

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WORLD RELIGIONS
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RELIGIONS

• Polytheism
• Belief in a pantheon of gods many.
• Mesopotamia
• Egypt
• Greece
• Rome
• Hinduism

• Monotheism
• Belief in only one god.
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam

Buddhist epistemology does not support the
existence of one or more gods.
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SOCIETAL INFLUENCE

• MATRIARCHAL
• Early societies
• Female deities
• Female power base
• MATRILINEAL
• Inheritance through female

• PATRIARCHAL
• Agricultural societies
• Male power base
• Male deities
• PATRILINEAL
• Inheritance through male

Parallel Descent Inheritance
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DESCENT PATTERNS
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PARALLEL DESCENT
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Two Important TermsWill be used throughout
course

• CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
• Degree to which one society adopts traditions of
  another culture
• Done by coercion not choice

• SYNCRETISM
• Degree to which one society adopts traditions of
  another culture
• Done by choice not coercion

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IS IT ORIGINAL OR A COPY?

• INDEPENDENT INVENTION
• Innovation that is new or original
• No outside influences involved.

• CULTURAL DIFFUSION
• Innovation that is introduced from another group
  or civilization
• Usually through trade or other interaction.

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Enduring Questions

• You must be able to evaluate trans-regional
  cultural diffusion.
• You must be able to identify the role of
  syncretization and cultural imperialism at work
  in that diffusion.
• ALL EVENTS STUDIED MUST BE ADDRESSED BY ANSWERING
  WHY.