Common Usage Terms
K.M.H.S.
AP World History
Mrs. Farbacher

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 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?]
 Economic systems= [How do they make a living?]
 Cultural systems= [Traditions, Gender roles, etc.?]
 Biological systems= [Where do they live? Climate?
Environmental interactions?]

 All key comparisons/contrasts must be:
 Comprised of Venn Diagram
Include small map on the back if applicable

 TRADITIONAL TENDENCIES WITHIN A SOCIETY
 Continuities :
 Long-standing traditions within a society
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Stay the same over time or are recurring
Example: Confucianism
 Changes:
 Traditions that are newly adopted
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Identifies changes within society
Example: Adoption of Buddhism

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B.C.E.
 Before Current/Common Era
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 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.

 Centuries are quoted thus:
 1901 to 2001 = 20 th Century
 2001 to 2101 = 21 st Century
 Thus the years cited would be designated the later [next] “century”
 Ex. 1492 = 15 th Century
 Ex. 1776 = 18 th Century

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

 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!

 Million
 M
 Thousand
 K
 Billion
 B
 Hundred
 C
 Circa [Latin term]
 c. [means around this time]
 Casualty
Statistics:
 KIA
 Killed in action
 MIA
 Missing in action
 WIA
 Wounded in action
 Used later in the course

 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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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

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Polytheism
 Belief in a pantheon of gods
[many].
 Mesopotamia
 Egypt
 Greece
 Rome
 Hinduism
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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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MATRIARCHAL
 Early societies
 Female deities
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 Female power base
MATRILINEAL
 Inheritance through female
Parallel Descent: [Inheritance]
Boys from father
Girls from mother
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PATRIARCHAL s
 Agricultural societies
 Male power base
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 Male deities
PATRILINEAL
 Inheritance through male

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[Will be used throughout course]
SYNCRETISM
Degree to which
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CULTURAL
IMPERIALISM one society
 Degree to which adopts one society traditions of adopts another culture traditions of
Done by choice another culture not coercion
 Done by coercion not choice

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INDEPENDENT
INVENTION
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Innovation that is new or original
 No outside influences involved.
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CULTURAL
DIFFUSION
 Innovation that is introduced from another group or civilization
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Usually through trade or other interaction
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 You must be able to evaluate transregional cultural diffusion.
 You must be able to identify the role of syncretization and cultural imperialism at work in that diffusion .
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ALL EVENTS STUDIED MUST BE
ADDRESSED BY ANSWERING “WHY”.