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AP Summer Vocabulary
Summer Assignment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | The production of crops, livestock, or poultry. |
| Bureaucracy | System of managing government through departments run by appointed officials. (not elected) |
| Chiefdom | Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Based on gift giving and commercial links. |
| City-State | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and surrounding agricultural territory. |
| Civilization | Process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization. |
| Demography | The statistical study of human population especially related to size, distribution, density, and vital statistics. |
| Diaspora | People who have settled far from their original homeland but who still share some measure of ethnic identity. |
| Epidemic | A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease, many people are infected at the same time. |
| Forager | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. |
| Genocide | Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group. |
| Globalization | The trend towards increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. |
| Interregional | Involving or connecting two or more regions. |
| Kingdom | State or domain ruled by a king or queen. |
| Merchant | A buyer and seller of goods for profit. |
| Monotheism | The religious belief in one God. |
| Nation | An aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state. |
| Neolithic | New stone age between 8000 BCE to 5000 BCE; adaptation of agriculture |
| Nomad | Someone who moves from place to place in search of food and water. |
| Pastoral | Relating to shepherds or herdsmen devoted to raising sheep or cattle. |
| Patriarchal | A form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. |
| Polytheism | The belief or worship of more than one god. |
| Prehistoric | Human history in the period before recorded events. |
| Primary source | Firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art created at the time under study. |
| Rural | The countryside, not a town or city. |
| Scribe | People who learned how to read , write, and keep records before the invention of printing. |
| Secondary source | Materials and information created through the assimilation and synthesis of primary and other secondary sources on an event, person, object, or work in the past. |
| Shaman | A person who is believed to have special access to supernatural powers and the gods. |
| State | A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. |
| Syncretism | The unification or blending of opposing people, ideas, or practices, frequently in the realm of religion. |
| Theocracy | A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
| Urban | A city or town. |
| Synthesis | The ability to develop understanding of the past by making meaningful and persuasive historical and/or cross-disciplinary connections between a given historical issue and other historical contexts, periods, themes, or disciplines. |
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Mrs. Krieger
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