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| 5373363179 | Legion | In the Roman military, 5,000 foot soldiers and supporting cavalry, used normally to mean many | 0 | |
| 5373365454 | Consul | One of the two members elected by Roman Republic to lead the senate for a one year term. One consul handled legal aspects of the Republic; the other handled military | 1 | |
| 5373372627 | Bureaucracy | Organizations that run the business of the government, Ex: tax collection, military, courts, postal systems, government education systems, historians/poets/librarians, government engineers | 2 | |
| 5373376982 | Civil Service | A synonym for bureaucracy | 3 | |
| 5373378228 | Democracy | Direct government by the majority vote of citizens; developed in Athens, Greece. Limitations include: every citizen must be involved, population has to stay low, responds slowly in times of crisis, represses minority opinions | 4 | |
| 5373383343 | Republic | Government through officials elected as representatives of the people. Developed in Rome in period between 509 BCE-31 CE. Limitations include: can be detached from wishes of citizens, responds slowly in crisis, vulnerable to corruption, repressive to minority opinions | 5 | |
| 5373391964 | Synthesis | Making meaningful and persuasive historical and/or cross-disciplinary connections between a given historical issue and other historical contexts, periods, themes, and disciplines (basically comparing things and adding connections) *to gain a synthesis point on an AP exam you must extend the argument by explaining the connections between the argument and one of the following: a) a development in a different historical period, situation, era, or geographical era; or b) a course theme and/or approach to history that is not the focus of the essay | 6 |
