AP World History Study Guide
AP World History Study Guide
General Terms to Study:
Unit 1: history concepts/Prehistory
Prehistory
- Refers to the long period of time before people invented systems of writing.
The Five Themes of Geography
- Location refers to the relative or absolute location of places. Relative location describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places. Absolute location provides a definite reference to locate a place. The reference can be latitude and longitude, a street address, or even the Township and Range system.
- Place describes the human and physical characteristics of a location. Physical characteristics include a description such things as the mountains, rivers, beaches, topography, and animal and plant life of a place.
- Human/Environment Interactions: This theme considers how humans adapt to and modify the environment. Humans shape the landscape through their interaction with the land; this has both positive and negative effects on the environment.
- Movement studies movement and migration across the planet.
- The essential geographic feature is the region. A region is any unit of space that is unified by the presence of some characteristic.
Anthropology: The study of the origin, the behavior, cultural and physical development of humans
Ice Age: 18,000 Glaciers spread across Europe, Asia, and North America is making bridges of ice
Stone Age: The age where man first started to make tools out of stone and learned how to make fire. The women of the stone age were important.
Bronze Age: Man first started making tools of bronze (mixture of copper and tin)
Primary Source: Original materials that have not been altered in any way.
Secondary Source: A secondary source of information is one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching
Nomads: A member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally.
General Terms to Study:
Unit 1: history concepts/Prehistory
Prehistory
- Refers to the long period of time before people invented systems of writing.
The Five Themes of Geography
- Location refers to the relative or absolute location of places. Relative location describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places. Absolute location provides a definite reference to locate a place. The reference can be latitude and longitude, a street address, or even the Township and Range system.
- Place describes the human and physical characteristics of a location. Physical characteristics include a description such things as the mountains, rivers, beaches, topography, and animal and plant life of a place.
- Human/Environment Interactions: This theme considers how humans adapt to and modify the environment. Humans shape the landscape through their interaction with the land; this has both positive and negative effects on the environment.
- Movement studies movement and migration across the planet.
- The essential geographic feature is the region. A region is any unit of space that is unified by the presence of some characteristic.
Anthropology: The study of the origin, the behavior, cultural and physical development of humans
Ice Age: 18,000 Glaciers spread across Europe, Asia, and North America is making bridges of ice
Stone Age: The age where man first started to make tools out of stone and learned how to make fire. The women of the stone age were important.
Bronze Age: Man first started making tools of bronze (mixture of copper and tin)
Primary Source: Original materials that have not been altered in any way.
Secondary Source: A secondary source of information is one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching
Nomads: A member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally.