Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class
Basic AP Vocabulary
As you know, an Advanced Placement course is a college level course. As a result, there is an expectation that students will have a college level vocabulary. Since this course is taught to high school students, we must work to attain that expected level. There are two types of basic AP vocabulary. The first are words and terms particular to the study of history. Some of these are words that have a different connotation when used in the history classroom or on an AP history exam Other words are simply college level vocabulary that are frequently found in AP level questions. It is imperative that you become comfortable with these words and terms.
- Analysis
- Argument
- Austerity
- Chronology
- Civilization
- Commemorate
- Comparison
- Conceptualization
- Connection
- Contemporary
- Cooperative
- Country
- Culture
- Diffusion
- Dominance
- Dynamics
- Empire
- Era
- Event
- Evolution
- Exemplify
- Exemption
- Exploit
- Facilitate
- Fact
- Fusion
- Incite
- Global
- Historiography
- Hypothesis
- Imposition
- Interaction
- Interdisciplinary
- Interpretation
- Manipulate
- Master Narrative
- Methodology
- Millennium
- Narrative
- Nation
- National History
- Obligatory
- People
- Periodization
- Perspective
- Resistence
- Society
- Spur (verb)
- Stages
- State
- System
- Tenets
- Themes
- Theory
- Trait
- Tribe
- Universal History
- World
Last updated August 13, 2009
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