| A | B |
| ancestor | family member from a long time ago |
| census | count of a country's residents |
| continent | one of 7 large land masses |
| country | nation with its own government |
| culture | how people live, what they believe, and how they express themselves |
| diversity | variety, differences |
| ethnic group | people who share a cultural background |
| heritage | "inherited" cultural background |
| history | study or record of the past |
| historian | person who studies the past |
| immigrant | person who COMES FROM another country |
| values | what people believe is right or good |
| oral history | spoken stories of the past |
| perspective | point of view |
| population | total number of people in a place |
| prejudice | "pre-judgment" of a person |
| primary source | artifact or "eyewitness" report |
| secondary source | account of an event by someone who was not there |
| source | where something comes from |
| unity | being together or in agreement |