Transcript 1 AP Course Concepts

AP WORLD HISTORY
Common Usage Terms
K.M.H.S.
AP World History
Mrs. Farbacher
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
 Incorporate the concepts and terms in this
presentation throughout the course.
 Relate them to each theme and/or topic.
 Evaluate/describe:
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Political systems= [How do they govern?]
Economic systems= [How do they make a
living?]
Cultural systems= [Traditions, Gender roles, etc.?]
Biological systems= [Where do they live? Climate?
Environmental interactions?]
Key Comparisons
 All key comparisons/contrasts must be:
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Comprised of Venn Diagram
Include small map
on the back
if applicable
Continuity & Change
 TRADITIONAL TENDENCIES WITHIN A SOCIETY
 Continuities:
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Long-standing traditions within a society
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Stay the same over time or are recurring
 Changes:
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Example: Confucianism
Traditions that are newly adopted
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Identifies changes within society
Example: Adoption of Buddhism
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
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ALL DATES GIVEN ARE RELATIVE AND
COULD BE QUOTED DIFFERENTLY IN
OTHER SOURCES.
CENTURY DESIGNATES
 Centuries are quoted thus:
to 2001 = 20th Century
 2001 to 2101 = 21st Century
 1901
 Thus the years cited would be
designated the later [next] “century”
1492 = 15th Century
 Ex. 1776 = 18th Century
 Ex.
CENTURY DESIGNATES
 16th Century – Spain
 17th Century – Dutch
 18th Century – France
 19th Century – Britain
 20th Century – America
 21st Century - ?????
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!
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS
 Million
 M
 Thousand
 K
 Billion
 B
 Hundred
 C
 Circa [Latin term]
 c. [means around
this time]
 Casualty
Statistics:
 KIA
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Killed in action
 MIA
 Missing in action
 WIA
 Wounded in
action
 Used later in the
course
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.
LATIN TERMS
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Ad hoc
Et al.
et cetera
Habeas corpus
INRI
Mare nostrum
Modus operandi
Pater Familias
Pax
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Americana
Romana
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Per annum
Per Capita
Per diem
Quid pro quo
Sic.
SPQR
Status quo
Terra incognita
Vae victis
Veni vidi vici
Veto
WORLD RELIGIONS
RELIGIONS
 Polytheism
 Monotheism
 Belief in a
 Belief in only
pantheon of gods
[many].
 Mesopotamia
 Egypt
 Greece
 Rome
 Hinduism
one god.
 Judaism
 Christianity
 Islam
Buddhist epistemology does
not support the existence of
one or more gods.
SOCIETAL INFLUENCE
 MATRIARCHAL
Early societies
 Female deities
 Female power base
 MATRILINEAL
 Inheritance through
female
 PATRIARCHAL s
Agricultural
societies
 Male power base
 Male deities
 PATRILINEAL
 Inheritance
through male
Parallel Descent: [Inheritance]
Boys from father
Girls from mother
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Two Important Terms
[Will be used throughout course]
 CULTURAL
 SYNCRETISM
IMPERIALISM
 Degree to which
 Degree to which
one society
one society
adopts
adopts
traditions of
traditions of
another culture
another
culture
 Done by choice
 Done by
not coercion
coercion not
choice
IS IT ORIGINAL OR A COPY?
 INDEPENDENT  CULTURAL
INVENTION
 Innovation that
is new or
original
 No outside
influences
involved.
DIFFUSION
 Innovation that
is introduced
from another
group or
civilization
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Usually through
trade or other
interaction.
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”.