AP WORLD HISTORY CERTIFICATION GUIDE
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⫸ Agrarian. Answer: pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian
reform, agrarian society
⫸ Bands/ Clans. Answer: extended family groups that generally lived
together
⫸ Civilization. Answer: a society in an advanced state of social
development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious
organizations)
⫸ City-States. Answer: different sections of land owned by the same
country but ruled by different rulers (e.g. Greece)
⫸ Domestication. Answer: process of changing plants or animals to
make them more useful to humans
⫸ Economy. Answer: system by which goods and services are
produced and distributed to meet people's needs
⫸ Egalitarian. Answer: a person who believes in the equality of all
people
,⫸ Foraging. Answer: the process of scavenging for food
⫸ Hierarchy. Answer: a series of ordered groupings of people or
things within a system
⫸ Hunter-Gatherer. Answer: A hunter-gatherer society is one whose
primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible
plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without
significant recourse to the domestication of either plants nor animals
⫸ Irrigation. Answer: supplying dry land with water by means of
ditches, sprinklers, etc.
⫸ Monarchy. Answer: a government in which power is in the hands
of a single person who usually inherits their power
⫸ Monotheism. Answer: belief in a single God
⫸ Neolithic. Answer: The New Stone Age from circa 8500 to 4500
BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient
Agricultural Revolution(s)
⫸ Nomadic. Answer: (of groups of people) tending to travel and
change settlements frequently
, ⫸ Pastoral. Answer: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to
raising sheep or cattle (e.g. pastoral peoples)
⫸ Paleolithic. Answer: The Old Stone Age from circa 750,00 to
500,000 years BCE to 8,500 years BCE: The period of the Stone Age
associated with the evolution of humans and the development of
minor tools
⫸ Philosophy. Answer: the rational investigation of questions about
existence, knowledge, and ethics
⫸ Polytheism. Answer: belief in multiple Gods
⫸ River Valley. Answer: the fertile land surrounding a river- the first
civilizations arose near them
⫸ Sedentary. Answer: remaining in one place
⫸ Settlement. Answer: the act of colonizing or a small group of
people in a sedentary position
⫸ Subsistence. Answer: the necessities of life, the resources of
survival
⫸ Surplus. Answer: a quantity much larger than is needed
2026 VERIFIED ANSWERS READY
⫸ Agrarian. Answer: pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian
reform, agrarian society
⫸ Bands/ Clans. Answer: extended family groups that generally lived
together
⫸ Civilization. Answer: a society in an advanced state of social
development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious
organizations)
⫸ City-States. Answer: different sections of land owned by the same
country but ruled by different rulers (e.g. Greece)
⫸ Domestication. Answer: process of changing plants or animals to
make them more useful to humans
⫸ Economy. Answer: system by which goods and services are
produced and distributed to meet people's needs
⫸ Egalitarian. Answer: a person who believes in the equality of all
people
,⫸ Foraging. Answer: the process of scavenging for food
⫸ Hierarchy. Answer: a series of ordered groupings of people or
things within a system
⫸ Hunter-Gatherer. Answer: A hunter-gatherer society is one whose
primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible
plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without
significant recourse to the domestication of either plants nor animals
⫸ Irrigation. Answer: supplying dry land with water by means of
ditches, sprinklers, etc.
⫸ Monarchy. Answer: a government in which power is in the hands
of a single person who usually inherits their power
⫸ Monotheism. Answer: belief in a single God
⫸ Neolithic. Answer: The New Stone Age from circa 8500 to 4500
BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient
Agricultural Revolution(s)
⫸ Nomadic. Answer: (of groups of people) tending to travel and
change settlements frequently
, ⫸ Pastoral. Answer: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to
raising sheep or cattle (e.g. pastoral peoples)
⫸ Paleolithic. Answer: The Old Stone Age from circa 750,00 to
500,000 years BCE to 8,500 years BCE: The period of the Stone Age
associated with the evolution of humans and the development of
minor tools
⫸ Philosophy. Answer: the rational investigation of questions about
existence, knowledge, and ethics
⫸ Polytheism. Answer: belief in multiple Gods
⫸ River Valley. Answer: the fertile land surrounding a river- the first
civilizations arose near them
⫸ Sedentary. Answer: remaining in one place
⫸ Settlement. Answer: the act of colonizing or a small group of
people in a sedentary position
⫸ Subsistence. Answer: the necessities of life, the resources of
survival
⫸ Surplus. Answer: a quantity much larger than is needed
